Elias Lab University of Minnesota

Accessibility statement

We want everyone to be able to use this website, including people who use assistive technology.

Our standard

This site is built to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA, the standard set by the University of Minnesota and by the U.S. Department of Justice's rule under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act. It was last reviewed in November 2026.

What this means on this site

  • Every page can be used with a keyboard alone, and starts with a link that skips to the main content.
  • Text stays readable when zoomed to 400%, and pages fit narrow screens without sideways scrolling.
  • Text and controls meet the required color contrast, and color is never the only way information is shown.
  • Informative images have text descriptions, and recorded audio has a written transcript.
  • The site uses no tracking, cookies or embedded third-party players.

Motion and simulations

  • Some pages have mosaics that light up and simulations that run on their own. A Pause motion button in the page header stops all of it, and your choice is remembered in your browser only. If your device is set to reduce motion, nothing moves unless you ask for it.
  • With motion paused, a simulation's controls still work: changing one shows the result straight away.
  • The simulations are teaching models, and the science they show is also described in the text beside them. Each one has a written status that screen readers announce as its result changes.
  • All the mosaic effects are decoration. Nothing depends on them, and the pictures have text descriptions.
  • Without JavaScript, the simulations are replaced by a picture, and all the text and publications remain available.

Content on other websites

Many pages link to journal articles and to other sites, including the lab's YouTube channel and Mikael Elias's Substack. If anything you reach from this site is hard to use, tell us and we will provide what you need in another format.

Tell us about a problem

If you have trouble with any part of this site, or need information in another format, please contact us. We will respond and work with you to provide the information.