Website Accessibility Statement

Voices of Resilience Anthology
 
Last updated: August 6, 2026

Our commitment

Voices of Resilience is a collection about endurance and being heard. A website that shuts people out would sit badly against that. We want this site to be usable by everyone, including people who use screen readers, keyboard navigation, magnification, or other assistive technology.
This site is a small personal project operated by one person, and we are working on its accessibility gradually rather than all at once. This statement describes honestly where things stand today.

What web accessibility is
Web accessibility means designing and building a website so that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with it. This includes people who are blind or have low vision, people who are deaf or hard of hearing, people with limited mobility who may navigate by keyboard or switch device, and people with cognitive or learning disabilities.
 
In practice it means things like: images carrying text descriptions, pages that can be operated without a mouse, text that contrasts clearly against its background, and content organized under clear, meaningful headings.
 
What we have done so far
This site is built and hosted on Wix, which provides certain accessibility features as part of its platform.
The accessibility work we have completed ourselves to date:

• Alternative text on images. Every image on this site has a written text description, so that people using screen readers receive the same information as people viewing the image.
   

The site is also deliberately simple. It is a single landing page containing text and images only — no video, no audio, no embedded feeds, no pop-ups, and no auto-playing motion. Simplicity is not a substitute for accessibility, but it does remove several of the most common barriers.
 
Where we currently stand
Our goal is to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA, the standard most widely used internationally.
 
We want to be straightforward: we have not yet completed a full assessment against that standard, and we do not claim to have met it. Alt text is one requirement among many. Areas we have not yet formally reviewed or tested include colour contrast, heading structure, keyboard-only navigation, form labelling on our mailing list signup, and screen reader compatibility across the page.
 
We would rather tell you that plainly than claim a level of conformance we have not verified.
 
What we are working on next
Our current priorities are to review colour contrast throughout the site, confirm that headings are structured logically, check that the mailing list signup form is properly labelled and can be completed by keyboard alone, and test the page with a screen reader.
 
We will update this statement as that work is completed.
 
Links to other websites
This site links to Amazon so that readers can purchase the anthology. Once you follow that link, you leave this site. We have no control over the accessibility of Amazon or any other external site, and this statement does not cover them.
 
Requests, issues, and suggestions
If you encounter a barrier on this site, or if there is something you cannot access, we want to know. Reports from people who actually use assistive technology are the most useful information we can get, and we take them seriously.
 
Please contact:
 
voicesvor18@gmail.com
 
It helps if you can tell us what page or element gave you trouble and what device, browser, or assistive technology you were using — but please do not let missing details stop you from writing. Get in touch with whatever you have.
 
We aim to respond within five business days. If you need information from this site in a different format, tell us what would work for you and we will do our best to provide it.
 
Ongoing effort
Accessibility is not a task that gets finished. We will keep reviewing this site as it changes and will revise this statement to reflect where things genuinely stand.