Accessibility
Our Team is dedicated to meeting the highest level of Accessibility Standards and ensuring every website is accessible to all users. We are always looking for ways to continuously improve the usability of sites because we believe equal access to content is essential for the web.
What We Do
Meet Your Goals
Web accessibility needs to be a priority in all aspects of the new site design, development and content strategy. We understand that your main goals are to develop a site that is fully accessible, mobile friendly and that incorporates improvements to the user experience. Beacon’s development team will build all templates and CSS to the design blueprint in accordance with web standards, accessibility standards and best practices.
Provide in Depth Accessibility Audit
At Beacon, we complete a thorough Accessibility Audit and provide a categorical breakdown of any issues, along with recommendations and best practices to maintain compliance guidelines with the future website. During our audit we will make sure your site:
- Meets WCAG 2.1 Guidelines
- Provides good color contrast
- Uses true text whenever possible
- Uses adequate font size
- Has recognizable links
- Provides ways to help users navigate
- Uses Plain Language
- Has an organized structure and headings
- Contains accessible PDFs
- Provides logical Forms
- Allows keyboard navigation
Accessibility Website Health Management
Beacon also offers quarterly ADA site scans using either SortSite or SiteImprove and analyzes scan findings to provide specifications for revisions to meet compliance requirements. Initial focus is on Priority 1 issues (WCAG Level A) to help resolve template level, content-level, PDF and form issues, then we shift focus to resolving Priority 2 template and issues (WCAG Level AA). Progress is tracked and reported on from quarter to quarter.
Our Tools
Testing for Accessibility can often times seem daunting to a web admin, however, there are many tools available to make the experience much easier. At Beacon, we utilize the following tools regularly to perform site audits:
