Accessibility Statement

Last reviewed: October 5, 2026

Different At Work is about how different brains work, so it should work for different brains, eyes, ears, and hands. We want everyone to be able to read, listen to, and take part in what we publish. If something here gets in your way, that is a problem with the site, not with you, and we want to hear about it.

What we are aiming for

Our target is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at Level AA. The site partially conforms to that standard: most of it meets the guidelines, and the parts we know do not are listed under Known limitations below.

What we have built in

  • Keyboard access. The site is built to work with a keyboard alone, including the menu, the audio player, the forms, and the subscribe pop-up. A “Skip to content” link is the first thing you reach on every page, and the item that has focus is always visibly outlined.
  • Screen readers. Pages use proper headings and landmarks, form fields have labels, buttons that show only an icon have text names, and links say where they go and warn you when they open a new tab.
  • Legible type. Body text is set in Atkinson Hyperlegible, a typeface designed by the Braille Institute so that letters stay easy to tell apart. Text can be enlarged with your browser’s zoom without breaking the layout.
  • Light and dark. The site follows your device’s light or dark setting, and the sun-and-moon button in the header switches between them. Each scheme was designed separately so that contrast holds in both.
  • Motion. If your device is set to reduce motion, animations do not run and the background video on the home page is never downloaded. The pause button in the header stops all animation for everyone else, and your choice is remembered.
  • Audio and transcripts. The episode player has skip-back, skip-forward, and playback-speed controls, and every episode can be downloaded to play in whatever app works best for you. Episodes with a transcript show it on the episode page, under the show notes, with each speaker and timestamp marked.
  • No puzzles. None of our forms use a CAPTCHA or any other test you have to pass.
  • One pop-up, politely. The only pop-up is the invitation to subscribe. It waits until you have been reading for a while, closes with the Escape key, returns you to where you were, and offers a “Don’t show this again” button that it honors.

The accessibility toolbar

The round button in the corner of the screen opens an optional toolbar (made by OneTap) with extra controls for things like text size, spacing, and contrast. Use it if it helps you. It is an extra, not a fix: the site is built to be accessible without it, and it does not replace your own screen reader, browser settings, or other assistive technology.

Known limitations

  • Episode transcripts. A few episodes are still waiting for their transcript. If you need one that is not there yet, write to us and we will get it to you. Transcripts may contain errors; tell us if you find one.
  • Podcast apps and other sites. We cannot control the accessibility of the apps and websites we link to, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and the organizations on our Resources page.
  • Older articles. Some articles written before the current design may have images whose text descriptions are less helpful than they should be. We fix these as we find them.

How we check

This is a self-assessment. The site has not had a formal audit by an outside specialist, and it has not yet been tested with a range of screen readers. We check it ourselves with a keyboard and with an automated testing tool (axe), in both the light and the dark color scheme, and a further set of automated checks runs before every update to the site’s design is published. Automated tools catch only some kinds of problem, which is one reason we want to hear from you.

Tell us what is not working

If you run into a barrier, or need something we publish in a different format, email info@differentatwork.com or use the contact form. It helps if you can tell us:

  • the page you were on;
  • what you were trying to do;
  • the browser, device, and any assistive technology you were using.

We aim to reply within five business days, and we will tell you what we can fix and when.