Website accessibility. A site somebody cannot use.
Roughly one customer in four has something that makes a badly built website hard work: a screen reader, a keyboard instead of a mouse, low vision, color blindness, or a phone in bright sun. Most of what fixes it costs nothing if it is done while building.
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Cheap while building. Expensive after.
Contrast that passes, a heading order that makes sense, labels on fields, alt text written as the image goes in, and a keyboard path through everything. Done as you build, it is a habit and it is free. Retrofitted onto a finished site, it is a project.
We build to WCAG 2.2 level AA on everything we make, and we say what we have tested rather than claiming compliance. There is a page on this site that lists what we check and what we know still falls short, which is the honest shape of it.
Our own accessibility statementYour two colors, tested here
Your text on your background reads at …. Now read it in the sun.
Type the two colors from your own site, or pick them, and read the same sentence the way four different customers will. No plugin, no score: it is the arithmetic the standard uses, run on your two colors in your browser.
Roughly one customer in four
has something that makes a badly built website hard work: a screen reader, a keyboard, low vision, color blindness, or a phone in bright sun.
Get in touchWhat we do as standard.
Four things on every site we build, not as an upgrade.
Contrast that holds in both schemes
Every piece of text checked against the background it sits on, in light and dark, before a page ships rather than after somebody complains.
A keyboard path through everything
Tab reaches every control in reading order and the thing with focus is visibly the thing with focus. Tested by pressing Tab, not by reading the stylesheet.
Structure a screen reader can follow
Headings in an order, landmarks, labels on every field, and alt text that describes the image where the image is doing work.
Motion that obeys the setting
Everything that moves stops when the visitor's device asks it to. It is one media query and almost nobody writes it.
This is not a legal exercise.It is the difference between a customer buying from you and a customer going somewhere they can actually use.
What we won't sell you.
Accessibility has attracted more bad selling than any other part of this work.
The scripts that promise instant compliance for a monthly fee are widely reported to make things worse for people using a screen reader, and they have not stopped lawsuits. We do not sell those. A reader-controls toolbar is a different thing, and we do add one on some sites so a visitor can raise the text size, change the contrast or turn motion off for themselves. It sits on top of a site built properly. It does not replace one, and it does not make you compliant.
Nobody can promise you will never receive a complaint. What we can do is build to the standard, test what we say we test, and write down what has not been checked.
We test with the keyboard, the accessibility tree and automated checks. A proper audit by somebody who uses a screen reader daily is a different thing, and where it matters we will help you find one rather than pretend.
Nobody buys a plan they haven't seen.
The free audit is a look at what you already have and what it is costing you, sent over with nothing to sit through. The plan is a conversation about where the business is and where you want it to get to, and it ends with a path written down rather than a quote. Or you call, and somebody who works on accounts picks up.