Accessibility

Our goal

We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA. We treat it as a floor, not a finish line, and we fix problems as we find them.

What the site does

• A “Skip to content” link is the first thing on every page, for keyboard and screen reader users.
• Everything works with a keyboard alone, and the item in focus always has a visible outline.
• Pages use clear landmarks (header, navigation, main content and footer), one main heading, and headings in order.
• Images that carry meaning have text descriptions. Decorative ones are hidden from screen readers.
• Menus and forms open in proper dialogs: focus moves into them, stays there while they are open, and returns where you were when you close them. The Esc key closes them.
• Form fields have visible labels. Mistakes are announced, explained in words, and focus moves to the first field that needs attention.
• Text has a contrast of at least 4.5 to 1 against its background (3 to 1 for large text), in both light and dark mode.
• Light and dark themes follow your device setting, and you can switch with the moon or sun button in the header.
• If your device asks for reduced motion, the site turns off its moving effects, such as the tilting book, parallax scrolling, fade-ins and the rotating quotes.
• The rotating quotes also pause while you hover over them or move focus into them.
• Buttons and links are at least 24 by 24 pixels, so they are easier to tap.
• Nothing on the site has a time limit. The event countdown is only a display and never ends anything you are doing.
• The layout adapts to small phone screens without sideways scrolling.

Known limits

We would rather be honest about these than leave you to discover them:

• Books are bought on Amazon. Amazon’s pages are outside our control, and their accessibility is up to Amazon.
• The inquiry form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to keep out spam. It usually passes on its own, but it is run by Cloudflare and we can’t change how it behaves. If it gives you trouble, use the “Send from your email app” button or email us directly (see below). If you take a long time on the form, the check may run again; what you typed stays in place.
• Other outside services we link to, such as Psychology Today, social networks, Google Calendar and Google Maps, have their own accessibility.
• The site is in English only for now. The language menu lists other languages as “Soon.”

How we check

Every page passes an automated axe-core scan (WCAG 2.1 AA and best-practice rules) in light and dark mode. Color contrast was also checked by calculation for every text and background pair, in both light and dark mode. Keyboard use and the dialogs were tested by hand in Chromium, and the home page is rendered on phone and tablet sizes in WebKit (the engine behind Safari) and Chromium to catch layout problems.

Tell us about a problem

If something on this site is hard to use, or you need any of it in another format, we want to know. Email hello@chrisarori.com with the page, what you were trying to do and what happened. If you use assistive technology, telling us which one (and which browser) helps us find the problem faster.

You can also send an inquiry and choose “Something else.” We will reply and tell you what we plan to do about it.

Last review

This statement was last reviewed on 19 October 2026. We will review it again before the site launches, and whenever the site changes in a way that could affect accessibility.