Accessibility Statement
This website is intended to be usable by people with a broad range of disabilities, including visitors who use screen readers, keyboard navigation, browser zoom, voice input, or other assistive technologies.
The accessibility target for the local website is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, WCAG 2.2 Level AA. This is a target, not a claim that the website has been certified or that every page currently conforms.
This statement applies only to pages and features hosted on this local static website. It does not cover original publication websites, Patreon, publisher or retailer websites, podcast platforms, media outlets, or other external services reached through links. Those services control their own content, account systems, media players, and accessibility features.
Planning information reviewed: . No completed accessibility audit was supplied for this statement.
Continue below for the accessibility features the finished website is intended to support.
Accessibility features supported by this website
The site is planned as a lightweight, text-led resource that can remain useful without images. The following measures are accessibility requirements for the finished site, but they should be treated as implemented only after testing confirms them:
- Semantic heading structures, descriptive page titles, navigation landmarks, and a skip link for moving directly to primary content.
- Full keyboard access to links, navigation, archive filters, and other interactive controls.
- A logical focus order and visible, high-contrast focus indicators.
- Descriptive link text that identifies external destinations and avoids repeated generic labels.
- Text labels or other non-color cues for topics, subscription notices, errors, selected filters, and access states.
- WCAG Level AA contrast targets for text, controls, focus indicators, and status labels.
- Meaningful alternative text for informative images and empty alternative text for decorative images.
- Support for browser zoom, text resizing, narrow-screen reflow, and appropriately sized touch targets.
- No autoplay for audio or video.
- Reduced-motion support for visitors who request it through their device or browser settings.
- Accessible names, instructions, states, and error handling for any menus, filters, forms, or dialogs that are enabled.
Archive search and filtering are planned as client-side features. They require manual keyboard and assistive-technology testing before they can be described as fully supported.
Accessible content, images, audio, and video
Local editorial content should use short paragraphs, logical headings, semantic lists, readable metadata, and descriptive links. Informative local images should include alternatives that communicate their relevant purpose without duplicating nearby text.
If audiovisual material is hosted on this website, it must include captions or a licensed transcript appropriate to the material. The site should not host protected broadcasts, podcast audio, transcripts, or member-only content without permission.
Most referenced audio and video will remain with the original publisher or platform. In those cases, this site links to the original source and may describe captions, transcripts, or other accessibility support only when that information has been verified. It cannot promise an accessible format for material controlled by another provider.
External websites and third-party services
This website directs visitors to external destinations for several kinds of content:
- Original publications hosting Fred Katz’s reporting, where a subscription may be required.
- Patreon, which controls podcast membership, account access, availability, pricing, and benefits.
- The official publisher and approved retailers providing current book information and ordering options.
- Media outlets hosting verified interviews and appearances.
These providers control their own accessibility features, subscription interfaces, media players, payment processes, and account systems. No claim is made here about the accessibility of any particular external platform.
Outbound links should identify their destination before activation. If a local link label, access notice, or description creates a barrier, that issue belongs to this website and should be reported here once an authorized route is available. A barrier within an external service may also need to be reported directly to that provider.
For more information about external destinations and subscription notices, read the Article Access and External Link Guide.
Known accessibility limitations
No completed accessibility audit or verified list of local limitations was supplied for this statement. This does not mean that no barriers exist. Testing and feedback are still required.
Particular review is needed for:
- Responsive navigation and focus order.
- Client-side search and archive filters.
- External-link and subscription notices.
- Any forms, validation messages, or error summaries enabled later.
- Images, audiovisual media, and downloadable press assets.
- Zoom, text resizing, narrow-screen reflow, contrast, and reduced-motion behavior.
Verified limitations should be added here only after review. Each entry should identify the affected page or component, its effect on visitors, any available workaround, remediation status, and the date it was reviewed. Barriers on external websites should be identified separately from local-site issues.
Resolved issues should be updated or removed promptly rather than left as stale notices.
Report an accessibility barrier
When an authorized reporting method becomes available, a useful report should include:
- The URL of the affected page.
- The task you were trying to complete.
- A concise description of the barrier.
- Assistive technology, browser, or device details only if you choose to provide them.
Disability, medical, and assistive-technology information will not be required to request help. Visitors should avoid sending sensitive personal information that is not necessary to understand the problem.
Any future reporting form must have an authorized recipient, accessible instructions and validation, spam controls, a retention policy, and a non-form alternative. An acknowledgement or response timeframe will be published only after the operating team approves one it can reliably meet.
Before submitting personal information through any future reporting route, review the Privacy Notice. Factual errors, changed metadata, and broken links that do not create an accessibility barrier belong under the Corrections and Update Policy.
Testing and ongoing improvement
The website targets WCAG 2.2 Level AA, but automated results or manual test dates have not been supplied. Automated tools alone are not sufficient to evaluate accessibility.
A complete review should include:
- Automated checks across representative page templates.
- Keyboard-only operation and focus-order testing.
- Testing with representative screen readers and browsers.
- Browser zoom, text resizing, responsive reflow, and narrow-viewport checks.
- Contrast checks for text, controls, focus indicators, and status labels.
- Reduced-motion behavior.
- Accessible operation and error recovery for navigation, filters, forms, and dialogs.
- Review of image alternatives, captions, transcripts, and downloadable materials.
Specific testing tools, browsers, assistive technologies, results, and dates will be listed only after those checks are completed and documented. Human review is required in addition to automated testing.
Accessibility should be reviewed whenever templates, navigation, filters, forms, media features, or downloadable assets change. This statement should also be revised when a verified limitation is found, resolved, or given a practical workaround.