About Maine Organizer Studio

Maine Organizer Studio is a disabled-led project. That's not a diversity statement — it's the reason the project exists and the standard it's held to. The accessibility work isn't a service line we added because it polls well; it's the thing the rest of the work is built around.

Why this exists

Organizing in Maine runs on borrowed tools, expired free trials, and whoever's nephew once built a website. Meanwhile, a large share of the sites Mainers are required to use — to apply, register, donate, participate — don't work with a screen reader or a keyboard. Both of these are technical problems, and technical problems are fixable. That's the whole thesis.

Who's behind it

Right now, one disabled technologist in Maine, doing the work directly. A fuller introduction is coming; the work matters more than the bio.

How it's funded

At the moment: it isn't. The project runs on volunteered time. The goal is to become donation-backed so the work can scale past one person's spare capacity, and when a donation mechanism exists it will be announced here — plainly, with what the money pays for.

No client pays for support work. It stays free for the organizations it serves; that's structural, not promotional.

The standard we hold ourselves to

This site targets WCAG 2.2 AA as a floor and does better where it can. There is no accessibility overlay widget here and there never will be. If you find something on this site that doesn't work with your assistive technology, tell us — we treat that as a bug report against our own credibility.