Fixed real accessibility issues found by a live audit — and closed out our production trust repair pass

We ran a real accessibility audit — not a manual checklist, an actual automated scan — across our ten highest-traffic pages, plus a Core Web Vitals performance check. It found genuine, fixable issues: every page was missing the language tag screen readers rely on to pronounce content correctly, one of our footer's social icons had no label at all, our breadcrumb's home button had no name a screen reader could announce, thirteen filter dropdowns across Mentors, Jobs, Podcasts, and Discussions had no accessible label, and our job listings weren't structured as a real list for assistive technology. All of that is fixed now.

Two things we found but didn't rush to fix: a color-contrast issue tied to our core brand color (a design decision that needs real sign-off, not something to change unilaterally), and a structural quirk in how job listings group by date. Both are logged with exact numbers for a proper follow-up.

Performance, for what it's worth, was already excellent — well under the thresholds that matter for a smooth experience.

This closes out P0.1, the trust-and-reliability pass we've been working through: broken links, stale claims, missing waitlists, mentor data quality, automated monitoring, search visibility, and now accessibility. Sixth and final entry in that series — from here, focus shifts to the next phase of the roadmap.