The Pizza Research Institute is committed to ensuring that its website is accessible to the widest possible audience, including individuals with disabilities. We believe that access to information — even fictional information about a made-up pizza university created as payback for a prank — should not be limited by physical, cognitive, or technological barriers.

This Accessibility Statement applies to the PRI website in its entirety. We aim to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA, as published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities.

To be clear: this institution was invented to settle a score with the Next Meters marketing team following a workplace prank of unusual ambition. The content is fictional. The accessibility commitment is real.

To support accessibility, the Pizza Research Institute has taken the following measures in the design and development of this Site:

Semantic HTML: We use semantic HTML5 elements to structure content in a way that is meaningful to assistive technologies, including headings, lists, navigation landmarks, and form labels.

Color Contrast: Our color palette — navy, gold, and cream — has been selected with readability in mind. Text elements are tested for sufficient contrast ratios against their backgrounds to meet WCAG AA standards.

Keyboard Navigation: Interactive elements on the Site, including navigation menus, form controls, and buttons, are accessible via keyboard without requiring a mouse.

Alternative Text: Images on the Site include descriptive alt text. Faculty portraits — of people who do not exist, with credentials that were invented — are no exception.

Responsive Design: The Site is designed to reflow appropriately across screen sizes and zoom levels, supporting users who require larger text or rely on mobile assistive technologies.

Form Accessibility: The contact form includes properly associated labels, logical tab order, and visible focus indicators, so that users can submit inquiries — to a fictional institution — without accessibility barriers.

While we strive for full WCAG 2.1 AA conformance, we acknowledge the following known limitations:

Some older PDF documents linked from the publications section may not be fully accessible to screen readers. We are working to remediate these on a rolling basis. For what it is worth, the documents themselves are fabricated academic papers, but we believe fabricated academic papers should be equally accessible to all users.

Certain decorative elements and background imagery may include limited descriptions, as they serve purely aesthetic rather than informational purposes.

Third-party embeds, should any be present, may not fully conform to our accessibility standards, as they are governed by their respective providers.

If you encounter any accessibility barrier on the Site, please see Section 6 (Contact & Feedback).

The Site has been developed and tested with the following assistive technologies in mind:

Screen Readers: NVDA and VoiceOver. Keyboard-only navigation. High contrast modes available in modern operating systems. Browser zoom up to 200% without loss of content or functionality.

We have not tested with every possible combination of assistive technology and browser. If you experience a compatibility issue, we welcome your feedback.

We want to draw a distinction between the accessibility of the Site (how the content is delivered) and the content itself (what is being delivered).

The Site is designed to be technically accessible. The content is, however, entirely made up. The research studies, faculty biographies, institutional history, journal publications, and press releases were created as part of an elaborate creative effort to respond proportionally to a prank executed by the Next Meters marketing team.

We consider it important that all users — including those relying on screen readers, keyboard navigation, or other assistive technologies — have equal access to the joke.

If you are a member of the Next Meters marketing team using an assistive technology to read this, we want you to know: this page was included specifically so that this disclosure would reach you regardless of how you access the web. We thought of everything.

We welcome feedback on the accessibility of this Site. If you experience barriers that prevent you from accessing content, or if you find that any portion of the Site does not meet the accessibility standards described above, please contact us:

Pizza Research Institute — Office of Digital Accessibility 1 Margherita Plaza, New Haven, CT 06511 (fictional campus, real commitment) accessibility@pizzaresearchinstitute.org +1 (475) 480-7492

We aim to respond to accessibility feedback within 5 business days. Please note that response times may vary given that this is a fictional institution with no actual staff. We will do our best.

If you are unsatisfied with our response to your accessibility concern, you may contact the relevant enforcement authority in your jurisdiction. In the United States, this would typically be the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division or the U.S. Access Board.

We take this seriously. The institution is not real, but the principle that everyone should be able to access the web equally is real, and we do not make light of it. These pages were built with care, and the accessibility of that care should not depend on how you interact with a screen.

This Accessibility Statement was last reviewed on March 19, 2026. We review our accessibility posture on an ongoing basis and update this statement when improvements are made or new limitations are identified.

We are continuously working to improve the accessibility of this Site. Our goal is full WCAG 2.1 AA conformance, because a prank website with institutional gravitas should be held to the same standards as any other institutional website, and we refuse to compromise on that.