Gönenç Türkekul

Accessibility

I want everyone to be able to read and use this site, including people who use a keyboard, a screen reader or zoom.

Steel engraving of Constantinople: figures in Ottoman dress rest on a hillside among cypress trees, with domes and minarets across the water beyond.
Constantinople, engraved by William Miller after Thomas Allom, 1847.Credit: "Constantinople engraving by William Miller after T Allom" by William Miller, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The standard I aim for

This site aims to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA. This is a target, not a certified result. The site has not yet had an independent accessibility audit.

What I have done

Structure
Pages use headings, landmarks and lists so that screen readers can move through them.
Keyboard
Links, menus and controls are meant to work with a keyboard alone, with a visible focus indicator.
Colour and text
Text colours were chosen for contrast above the WCAG AA minimum, and pages stay readable when zoomed to 200 percent.
Images and diagrams
Images have text alternatives, and diagrams come with a written explanation of what they show.
Motion
Animation is kept to a minimum and respects the reduced-motion setting in your operating system.
Two languages
Each page declares its language, English or Turkish, so assistive technology pronounces it correctly.
The stone Galata Tower with its conical roof, seen from below against a pale sky, trees around its base.
Galata Tower, 2011.Credit: "Galata Kulesi - 01" by Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Hand-coloured bird’s-eye map of Constantinople from 1572: the walled peninsula, Galata across the Golden Horn, sailing ships on the water and a mounted procession along the bottom edge.
Byzantium nunc Constantinopolis, Braun & Hogenberg, 1572.Credit: "1572 bird's eye view map of Constantinople - Byzantium Nunc Constantinopolis" by Georg Braun & Frans Hogenberg, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Known limitations

Some content is not yet fully accessible:

Documents from the earlier site
Older files, such as the CV PDF and some archived pages, were not created with accessibility in mind and may be hard to use with a screen reader.
Screenshots and video
Some product screenshots contain small text that is part of the image. Videos may not yet have captions.
External sites
Linked sites such as LinkedIn, Medium and GitHub are outside my control.

Reporting a problem

If something on this site is hard to use, please email gonencturkekul@gmail.com. Tell me the page address, what you were trying to do and, if you like, the browser or assistive technology you use. I will reply and, where I can, fix the problem or send you the content in another format.

This statement is a draft and was last reviewed on 25 October 2026.