Accessibility

SEMO Web Designs wants this website to work for everyone who visits it, including people who browse with a screen reader, navigate by keyboard, enlarge the page, or use voice control. This page sets out the standard we build to, where the site currently falls short, and how to tell us when something does not work.

The standard we build to

We aim to meet WCAG 2.2 Level AA (opens in a new tab), the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines published by the World Wide Web Consortium. It is the standard US courts and federal regulators point to when they ask whether a website is accessible, and Level AA is the bar they apply.

This site is partially conformant with WCAG 2.2 Level AA. Most of it meets the standard, and the parts that fall short are listed below rather than left for you to discover.

It is also the standard every site we build for a client is held to, which is the honest reason this page is here rather than a nice-to-have.

What we do

• Pages are built from semantic HTML — real headings, lists, and landmark regions — so screen readers and browser reader modes can make sense of them.
• Everything works from the keyboard alone, with a visible focus outline and a skip link that jumps straight past the navigation.
• Text and background color combinations are checked against the contrast thresholds in the standard every time we build the site, so a design change cannot quietly make text unreadable.
• Every image carries a text description, and decorative icons are hidden from screen readers rather than read out as noise.
• The layout reflows down to small screens and stays readable when you zoom in, without trapping content in a sideways scroll.
• Animation and smooth scrolling turn themselves off when your device asks for reduced motion.
• Expandable sections use native browser controls, so they keep working when scripts fail to load and find-in-page still reaches closed sections.
• Nothing on this site loads from another company except the typefaces it is set in. There is no tracking, no advertising, no chat bubble and no embedded map to get between you and the page.
• Links that leave this site say so, out loud, for anyone using a screen reader.
• We have not installed an accessibility overlay widget and we will not. They do not work, and sites carrying one draw more complaints than sites without.

Where this site falls short

We are not aware of any outstanding barriers on this site today. That is not the same as there being none — it is a small site, checked by one person, and the next section is how you tell us we have missed something.

If the website is in your way

You should never have to fight this site to reach us. Anything you can do here, we can do with you directly.

• Anything on this site can be done over email instead. Tell us what you are after — a quote, a question about the pricing, a change to a site we look after — and we will take it from there.

Tell us about a problem

If any part of this site blocks you, please tell us. We treat it as a fault to fix, not a complaint to file.

• semowebdesigns@gmail.com

It helps to know which page you were on and what happened. If you use assistive technology, telling us which one makes the problem much easier to reproduce.