Accessibility consulting by the engineer who relies on it.

Lived experience as rigour, not a sympathy hook

Automated scanners catch a slice of accessibility problems. Sighted auditors working from a checklist catch more. But the failures that actually stop a blind or low-vision person — a control that VoiceOver skips, a live region that never announces, a voice flow that traps you — usually survive both. I find them because I hit them, with real assistive technology, the way your users will.

What’s rare is the second half: I’m also an AI engineer with 16+ years shipping production systems across government, finance and payments. So when the product is an AI product — a chatbot, a voice assistant, an agent UI — I can review both the accessibility and the way the AI behaves for someone using it by ear.

Why accessibility is quality, not charity

Accessibility isn’t a favour to a minority. It’s the same discipline that makes software testable and robust — which is why fixing it lifts your whole product, not just its screen-reader experience. Apple puts it plainly:

“Accessibility is the underlying framework that powers UI automation. Having a great accessibility experience means you get a great UI automation experience too.”

The accessible structure a screen reader relies on is the same interface your automated tests drive. It isn’t an Apple-only idea: Playwright’s recommended locators find elements by role and label — the accessibility tree — and Testing Library is built on the same principle:

“The more your tests resemble the way your software is used, the more confidence they can give you.”

Build that accessible layer in and reliable automated tests come with it; skip it and both break together. Most of the web skips it — WebAIM’s 2025 audit found 94.8% of the top one million home pages had detected WCAG failures.

The legal risk is real

Accessibility failures are actively litigated and fined across four jurisdictions:

• USA — a class action over Target’s inaccessible website settled for $6,000,000, establishing that retailers with physical stores must make their sites accessible. (WebAIM, on the Target settlement (opens in a new tab))
• USA — in Robles v. Domino’s Pizza, the US Supreme Court declined to hear Domino’s appeal (Oct 2019), leaving in force a ruling that the ADA covers websites and mobile apps. (CNBC, on the Supreme Court decision (opens in a new tab))
• Australia — Coles settled after a blind shopper sued under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 because its online store took her up to eight hours to use. (case summary (opens in a new tab))
• Australia — Maguire v SOCOG (2000): the Sydney Olympics website was found unlawfully inaccessible, ordered fixed, with $20,000 in damages. (Wikipedia, “Maguire v SOCOG 2000” (opens in a new tab))
• EU — the European Accessibility Act began enforcement 28 June 2025, with fines up to €100,000. (Level Access, on EAA penalties (opens in a new tab))
• Canada — under Ontario’s AODA, corporations face fines of up to CA$100,000 per day until a violation is resolved. (BOIA, on AODA penalties (opens in a new tab))

An audit before you ship is far cheaper than a lawsuit after — and it’s the manual, assistive-technology review that a scanner or an accessibility overlay can’t give you. Read our full position →

What I do

• Manual WCAG 2.1 / 2.2 AA audit with real assistive technology

  I test your site or app with VoiceOver and a keyboard and give you a written, prioritised findings list — each issue, why it matters, and how to fix it.

• AI-product accessibility review

  Does your chatbot, voice interface or agent UI actually work for a screen-reader or low-vision user? This is the gap most accessibility consultants can’t cover, and the one I know best.

• Embedded advisory during a build

  I join your team as the accessibility voice while you’re designing and shipping, so accessibility is built in from the start rather than bolted on at the end.

• Screen-reader and VoiceOver testing of specific flows

  Point me at a checkout, an onboarding, a form or a key journey and I’ll test it end to end on a real device and tell you exactly where it breaks.

• Team training

  Practical, plain-English sessions on accessible design and development for designers, developers and product managers — grounded in how people actually use assistive technology.

How we’d work together

Three simple ways in — pick whichever fits where you are:

• Fixed-price audit — a defined scope, a set price, and a written report you can act on.
• Day-rate or monthly retainer — ongoing accessibility review through a build or across a product.
• Book a 15-minute scoping call — no quote gate, no pressure; we work out whether I’m the right fit for what you need.

Not sure which one? Email me a sentence about your product and I’ll suggest the lightest engagement that would actually help.

The proof is a product I actually shipped

I don’t have a wall of client logos to show you, and I’m not going to invent one. What I have is ChatLemur — an accessible, voice-first AI assistant that’s live on the web today, designed screen-reader-first and tested with VoiceOver and full keyboard navigation as its baseline. You can try it in your browser and judge the accessibility for yourself.

There’s also a native iPhone app, currently in TestFlight beta and still in development — on-device machine learning for a live camera perception aid, built and used by someone who navigates by ear. The whole thing is beta, built in the open, and I say so plainly; honest about what’s finished is exactly the standard I’d hold your product to.

What I will and won’t claim

I sell expert manual review — not automated fixes. No tool, mine or anyone else’s, can make your product “compliant” by bolting on an AI overlay, and I won’t pretend otherwise. Operators who sold that promise have been fined by regulators and rejected by the blind community for good reason.

So, plainly: an audit is not a compliance guarantee and not legal protection. What it gives you is an honest, expert picture of where your product stands against WCAG 2.1 / 2.2 AA and a clear, prioritised path to fix what matters most. The decisions, and the remediation work, stay yours — I’ll help you get them right.