02 nWise
nWise makes software that lets people who are deaf, hard of hearing or deaf-blind make a phone call — video, live text and voice in the same call. A site about accessible communication does not get to be hard to use, so accessibility was the brief, not a checklist at the end.
Lighthouse — Desktop, Oct 2026
- Performance
- 76
- Accessibility
- 100
- Best practices
- 96
- SEO
- 85
I built it keyboard-first. Everything you can click, you can reach and use with a keyboard alone, in an order that makes sense, with a focus state you can always see. Real headings and landmarks let a screen-reader user jump straight to the part of the page they need.
Colour contrast was measured against WCAG rather than judged by eye, and every animation respects prefers-reduced-motion, so motion stops when the reader asks it to.
Underneath it is a Bedrock and Sage theme with custom Gutenberg blocks and custom post types, styled with Tailwind. The structure that makes a page accessible lives in the blocks themselves, so the nWise team can edit content without breaking it.
Done in collaboration with my colleague at Wirke. We worked on it together the whole way through, design and development side by side.
