About Sean Kelley

Professional Focus

I am a web professional with long-standing experience building and maintaining websites, digital archives, and content-driven projects. My background includes hands-on site development, long-term maintenance, and practical problem-solving across evolving platforms and tools.

This site exists as a professional portfolio and working archive - a place to document past work, present current projects, and clearly show where my focus is heading next. Accessibility is a deliberate and recent direction in my work, and this site reflects that transition.

Lived Experience and Perspective

Since sustaining a spinal cord injury in 1998, I have relied on assistive technology to use computers and navigate digital systems. Over the years, that has included alternative input methods such as head tracking, voice control, and switch-based tools.

While accessibility was not a design focus in the earlier websites represented here, using assistive technology daily has given me a practical perspective on how interfaces behave under real conditions - especially when tools fail, overlap, or compete for control. That lived experience now directly informs what I am learning and building next.

What This Site Represents

Portfolio - archived examples of websites and digital projects I have built over time, including work that no longer exists at its original domain.
Projects - ongoing and experimental work where I am actively learning, applying, and documenting accessibility concepts, patterns, and tools.
Professional Transition - a transparent record of skills, progress, and intent as I move toward formal accessibility training and evaluation.

What I'm learning about accessibility

Accessibility is now a core area of study for me. My goal is to build accessible work going forward, while being honest about where I am in the learning curve today. Current focus areas include:

Semantic HTML structure and heading hierarchy that supports clear navigation.
Keyboard and switch-friendly interaction patterns (focus visibility, logical tab order, no traps).
Link and button affordances that remain obvious without relying on hover.
Forms and controls that are labeled clearly and work well with assistive tech.
Testing workflows using the tools I rely on (Voice Control, head pointer, on-screen keyboard) and documenting what breaks.

This is a forward-looking foundation - not retroactive claims about past sites. As new work is added, you'll see more accessibility-first patterns implemented and documented.

Looking Forward

I am pursuing formal training and professional development in digital accessibility, including review by organizations such as the Blind Institute of Technology. This site will continue to evolve as that learning deepens and new work is added.

Its purpose is simple: to show where I've been, where I am, and where I am intentionally going next.