Cardona CT Lab · Reading Index
Whitepapers
Design rationale and product documentation across the portfolio: the Forge platforms, the accessibility tooling, and the Cotality on-screen brand work.
Looking for the thought pieces instead? The essays cover the Friction Inversion methodology and the ideas behind the systems.
Platforms & systems
CourseForge LCMS
Web-native authoring and offline-safe SCORM 1.2 / 2004 publishing for defense and simulation training.
Graded hotspot demonstrator
Operate a keyboard-accessible scored image hotspot: the 508 contract, focus, region labels, and announcements, made visible.
Feedback-ladder demonstrator
Answer a scored question and watch the tiered feedback escalate, incorrect to hint to reveal, with live SCORM score and status.
In-preview 508 audit demonstrator
Recolor a sample frame and watch the traffic-light verdict and per-element WCAG findings update, with a one-click nearest-passing fix.
Callout authoring demonstrator
Drag a label or its target on an image and watch the connector line auto-anchor to the box edge facing the target, keyboard included.
ForgeMarkInteractive
Governed classification marking for training content: derived banner, portion tags, and a derivative-authority block, rendered identically across every publish target.
ForgeMark marking demonstrator
Operate the marking live: set a policy and watch the banner, tags, and the five publish gates pass and fail.
ForgeScaffold naming labInteractive
Edit a course outline and inspect deterministic SOP names, art-role tokens, and case-insensitive collision blocking.
Forge3D
Interactive 3D visualization and annotation for the web, bundled to run on air-gapped networks.
PlantForgeLiving
Simulation-first plant care with deterministic policy and bounded local AI that never actuates hardware unbidden.
Local AI LabLiving
Governed local-AI research with a model evidence registry and measured, human-approved promotion.
ImageForge motion benchmarkLiving
Playable local video-generation studies with fixed controls, measured performance, human review, and a versioned capability ledger.
BIM Bid Engine
Review-first electrical BIM-to-bid estimation, with authority gates and human sign-off before any figure ships.
Flood Risk Intelligence Dashboard
A design-engineering case study in making layered flood risk legible and decision-ready.
Design systems & accessibility
Agent UI Pattern Library
Agentic UX patterns and token discipline, with accessibility claims held to evidence. Cardona Lab with Kong.
508 Auditor
Accessibility issue grading, remediation code, and keyboard / ARIA checks inside a review workflow.
508 Contrast Checker
A WCAG 2.x two-color contrast utility for checking marking and interface colors against the AA and AAA floors.