Michiel Van de Velde

Accessibility

Accessibility statement

How this site supports accessibility, and where it still falls short.

This is an accessibility statement from Michiel Van de Velde.

Measures to support accessibility

Michiel Van de Velde takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of Michiel Van de Velde Portfolio:

  • Include accessibility as part of our mission statement.
  • Include accessibility throughout our internal policies.
  • Employ formal accessibility quality assurance methods.

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. Michiel Van de Velde Portfolio is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of Michiel Van de Velde Portfolio. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on Michiel Van de Velde Portfolio:

We try to respond to feedback within .

Technical specifications

Accessibility of Michiel Van de Velde Portfolio relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

  • HTML
  • WAI-ARIA
  • CSS
  • TypeScript

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.

Limitations and alternatives

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of Michiel Van de Velde Portfolio , there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Known limitations for Michiel Van de Velde Portfolio:

  1. Animated story: the "How I got there" scenes animate as you scroll. Every chapter's text is in the page, and with "reduce motion" turned on in your system settings the scenes stay still.
  2. Dengue dashboard: the dashboard in the story is an illustration of the app, with illustrative data. Its towns can be opened with the keyboard (Tab, then Enter) and closed with Escape.

Assessment approach

Michiel Van de Velde assessed the accessibility of Michiel Van de Velde Portfolio by the following approaches:

  • Self-evaluation
  • External evaluation
  • I am continually asking people to check for accesibility issues

Date

This statement was created on 30 December 2025 using the W3C Accessibility Statement Generator Tool.