Services Accessibility
Website accessibility audit, measured not guessed
Every site we build ships measured against WCAG 2.2 at Level AA. Already have a site? We will audit it with real numbers and real keyboard and screen reader passes, tell you exactly where it stands, and fix what fails. No plugin badge, no overlay, no certificate that means nothing.
What the audit covers
- Colour contrast measured across body text, headings, buttons, links, and states, not eyeballed.
- The full keyboard path: every control reachable, in a sensible order, with a focus outline you can actually see.
- A screen reader pass over the real pages, because automated tools cannot tell you whether a label makes sense.
- Headings, landmarks, lists, and tables marked up as real structure rather than styled text pretending to be structure.
- Text alternatives on images that carry meaning, and decorative artwork hidden from assistive technology instead of read aloud.
- Forms: labels, error messages, required fields, and whether a mistake is recoverable without starting over.
- Motion and animation against reduced motion preferences, plus reflow down to a phone sized screen without horizontal scrolling.
What you get back
A written report in plain English, ordered by what actually blocks somebody rather than by what a scanner found most of. Each item says what the problem is, who it affects, which WCAG criterion it fails, and what fixing it involves. Where a number matters, the number is there. Where a judgement call is involved, we say that too instead of dressing an opinion up as a violation.
Then we fix it, or your developer does. Remediation usually costs less than the audit, because most sites fail the same handful of things repeatedly and one correction in a template can clear dozens of pages.
Why it is worth doing
Start with the obvious reason: people who cannot use your site cannot buy from you, book with you, or donate to you. That is a fifth of the population depending on how you count, and they are not a niche. The second reason is that accessibility claims against ordinary Florida businesses are common, and the standard those claims are measured against is the one we build to anyway.
The third reason is quieter. Sites that get this right are better sites. Clear structure, sensible focus order, honest labels, and text that does not depend on colour to make sense are just good design. Screen readers and search crawlers happen to want the same thing.
We hold our own work to it
This site has a published accessibility statement that says what is in place, where we still fall short, and how to reach a human if any of it gets in your way. It is worth reading before you hire anybody for this work, ours or otherwise. A studio that will not write one about its own site is telling you something.
We also build for clients where this is the entire point. fdaaf.org is the Florida Disability Access and Awareness Foundation, an organisation whose whole mission is changing how the world sees disability. Building their site to a standard they would have to apologise for was never an option, and that project is the reason a lot of this is second nature now.
Straight answers
Will an overlay or accessibility plugin fix this?
No. Overlay widgets sit on top of a site and guess at what its code should have said, and the people who rely on assistive technology are the loudest critics of them. They also do not remove the underlying problems, they hide them behind a badge. We fix the markup instead.
Is my business legally required to have an accessible website?
We are not lawyers and this is not legal advice. What we can tell you is that web accessibility claims against small and mid sized businesses are common in Florida, that WCAG 2.1 and 2.2 at Level AA is the standard those claims are measured against, and that meeting it is far cheaper than answering a demand letter.
How long does an audit take?
Usually a few days for a typical business site, longer if it runs to hundreds of pages or has complex applications inside it. You get the findings first, so you can start on the serious items before the full write up lands.
Do you only report problems, or do you fix them?
Either. Some clients want the report to hand to their own developer, and we write it so that is genuinely usable. Most ask us to do the remediation, which is faster because we already know exactly what is wrong and why.
The rest of what we do
Web design
New builds ship measured against AA, so there is nothing to remediate later.
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AI integration
Assistants and chat widgets are where accessibility usually breaks. Ours are tested.
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SEO & AI search
Honest structure serves screen readers and search engines with the same markup.
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Find out where your site actually stands
Send us the address. We will run the first pass and tell you honestly whether you have a small list of fixes or a real problem, before you commit to anything.