Website Accessibility

More people should be able to use your website

Website accessibility means people with disabilities can actually use your site — navigating by keyboard, listening through a screen reader, reading text with sufficient contrast, understanding images through alternative text. Courts have increasingly treated business websites as places of public accommodation under the ADA, and inaccessible websites have drawn thousands of lawsuits.

But honestly, the legal exposure is the least interesting reason to care. An accessible website serves more customers. That's the whole point of having one.

What accessibility work involves

• Keyboard navigation — every function reachable without a mouse
• Screen readers — semantic structure assistive technology can interpret
• Contrast & typography — text people can actually read
• Alternative text — images that make sense without eyes
• Forms — labeled fields, clear errors, logical flow
• Headings & navigation — structure that works as a map
• Multimedia — captions and transcripts
• Mobile accessibility — touch targets, zoom, orientation

A word about accessibility widgets

Be skeptical of any vendor claiming a $50/month overlay widget makes your website compliant. No widget automatically makes a website compliant. Accessibility is built into the code, the content, and the design — overlays can sometimes help at the margins, but they don't fix an inaccessible foundation, and some actually make things worse for screen-reader users.

We audit against WCAG guidelines, remediate the underlying code and content, and build accessibility in from the start on new projects. It's craftsmanship, not a plugin.