In the last year I have developed a strong interest in simracing as a hobby. We are currently living in a golden age of simulated racing with many great sim titles to choose from, but my preferred one is the iRacing simulator.

Alongside iRacing’s official matchmaking races there exists a large and healthy ecosystem of community-operated league races. These leagues run the spectrum from extremely competitive to very, very casual. Toward the latter end of that spectrum is the 24 Hour of Lemons community, an iRacing league that accompanies the US-based motorsport series of the same name in which people race cars worth no more than $500 for as many laps as they can.

Web content accessibility has been on my mind recently as I watched one of the other engineering teams at Intercom in San Francisco undertake to make the Intercom Messenger accessible and compliant with the Web Content Accessiblity Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA. Despite the continued growth and evolution of the internet it has yet to really live up to its true potential as universally accessible communication, and the accessibility landscape of online content is no exception. In the process of recreating my blog I decided that I wanted to learn about the various standard components that make up web accessibility and see what I could do about implementing them here. Here’s a bunch of changes that I made to the blog as a result of my search.