Web Inclusion LabAbout
The lab where the tester and the user are the same person
Web Inclusion Lab exists because of a gap our founder kept running into from both sides: as the engineer asked to fix accessibility problems, and as the blind user locked out by them.
Who you are working with
Web Inclusion Lab is led by Yahya Abdikadir, a blind engineer who has used screen readers every working hour for over a decade: JAWS and NVDA on Windows, VoiceOver on Mac and iPhone. He holds a bachelor's degree and a master's-level education in learning technologies, builds and operates a production web platform that holds WCAG 2.2 AA with zero automated violations, ships native iOS code, and has remediated government documents to Section 508 for a state transportation agency.
That combination is the lab's method in miniature: engineering skill to find and fix the problem, and lived assistive-technology experience to know, not guess, when it is truly fixed.
Why "verified" means something here
The accessibility industry has a checker problem. Documents and websites get stamped "compliant" by automated tools, and the stamp survives contact with no actual user. We have rebuilt a professionally remediated government form that still could not be completed with a screen reader at all. The people the form existed for were locked out of it, stamp and all.
So the lab's rule is simple: nothing ships until it passes independent validators and a blind tester has used it, start to finish, the way your real users will. Then we hand you the evidence of both.
What we believe
- Accessibility is testable. Not a vibe, not a badge. Either a screen reader user can complete your form or they cannot.
- Overlays are not a fix. We will never sell you a widget. We fix the thing itself.
- Evidence over opinion. Every finding cites the standard it violates and ships with proof it happens on real assistive technology.
- Plain language wins. A report nobody reads fixes nothing. Ours are written to be acted on the same day.