We are a small studio with one belief: accessibility is a starting point, not a patch.
Every layout in this theme began life in a screen reader before it was ever styled. That order — test first, design second — has been our way of working for more than two decades.
How we work
Design in the browser, test with JAWS and NVDA, verify every colour with a contrast analyser, and only then call a page done. We work in writing — clear reports, annotated screenshots and prioritised checklists your team can act on — so nothing gets lost between a call and the code.
Our story
2003 — Founded in Kolkata
A one-person studio opens with a stubborn rule: if it fails in a screen reader, it fails.
2016 — The compliance years
India’s Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act raises the bar. We spend the era auditing and remediating government and enterprise portals against it.
2021 — Themes and plugins
Our accessible-themes practice gets its own home: carousels, forms and login flows that pass the same battery we run for clients.
2026 — Ariade ships free
The whole test battery, packaged into a free block theme on WordPress.org — the site you are reading is the theme itself.
In numbers
2003
the year we started
400+
audits delivered
12
countries served
100%
keyboard tested
The team
Maya R.
Founder & lead auditor
“My favourite sound is a clean re-test.”
Leo F.
Accessibility engineer
“Semantics first, always.”
Aisha K.
UX researcher
“I test with people, not personas.”
Daniel O.
Training & support
“Accessibility must survive the handover.”