Accessibility

I want as many people as possible to be able to use this website, whether you use a screen reader, navigate by keyboard, or rely on your system’s accessibility settings. That means you should be able to:

• change colours, contrast levels and fonts
• zoom in up to 400% without content spilling off the screen
• navigate the whole website using just a keyboard
• navigate the whole website using speech recognition software
• listen to the whole website using a screen reader

This site aims to conform to WCAG 2.2 at Level AA.

Using this site

Everything works from the keyboard. Tab moves forward, Shift + Tab moves back, and Enter activates whatever has focus. Pressing Tab when a page loads reveals a Skip to content link. The focus outline appears for keyboard use rather than for mouse clicks. Each page has one first-level heading, no skipped levels, and header, navigation, main and footer landmarks, so a screen reader can move by region or by heading instead of reading straight through. Where two links would sound alike out of context, each carries extra wording that only a screen reader announces.

Text meets or exceeds 7 to 1 against its background in both colour schemes. Links in the text are underlined as well as coloured, so colour is never the only cue. Every image carries a description for anyone who cannot see it. The page reflows to a single column on a narrow screen, and overriding line height, word or letter spacing will not clip anything.

Light and dark follow your system setting, with a toggle at the top right that remembers your choice. Nothing moves, flashes or plays on its own. All content is available with JavaScript switched off; only the colour-scheme toggle needs it, and without it the site follows your system setting.

Telling me about a problem

If any part of this site is difficult to use, please email ziadelsayed@nyu.edu. Describing what you were trying to do and what got in the way is enough. You do not need to know the technical cause.