Web Accessibility Services Services ⋆ SeaMonster Studios

All Aboard

You welcome everyone to your business in person, and we’ll make sure they feel equally welcome in your site.

A Watching Eye

We'll continuously monitor for accessibility to make sure that all updates to your site, changes, and new content present no challenges to your visitors.

Shoo the Sharks

Letting SeaMonster help you put a deep focus on accessibility will deter lawyers and other profiteers from attacking you over accessibility issues.

Need to make sure your website is accessible?

Over the past five years lawsuits over web accessibility have risen a lot, and if you don’t want to be targeted by one, or targeted again, it’s time to take a close look at your site for things that might block some people’s access to it.

We can help!

Over the past several years as the lawyers have ramped up their legal actions against website owners, we’ve ramped up our ability to help owners make their sites so accessible the lawyers leave them alone, and people with disabilities tell their friends to shop at their stores.

Take our quiz to see where you stand with your accessibility efforts. After that, let’s set a time to talk about how we can help you excel in this critical area.

Web Accessibility Efforts Quiz

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How are you doing in your efforts to make your website accessible to all?

Take this quick quiz and get an instant score on your efforts. You may also learn a few things along the way!

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1. Does your website have an accessibility statement? This should be written in an engaging way in your own voice. It should explain why accessibility is important to you and give a method for people to contact you specifically about challenges they have with accessing your website.(Required)

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Look down in your footer for a link to "Accessibility". Is there an accessibility statement?

Yes.

It has a statement, with a dedicated accessibility contact, but it's not very personable. Sounds kind of formulaic.

It's got a generic statement, but not a dedicated accessibility contact, just the same as the regular contact.

No.

2. Do all your images have alternative text? These should be written to give your blind or visually-impaired visitors an accurate sense of whatever is conveyed by the images.(Required)

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To check what alternative text your images have, you can install and activate the Images bookmarklet (opens in a new tab) and activate it once you navigate to each of your pages. This will reveal what alternative text your images have. Consider whether these give an equivalent experience to your blind visitors. Do all images have alt text?

Yes.

They have alternative text, but we're not sure what they should say. They may not convey the information very well.

We haven't added any alternative text.

3. Do all the colors used in the content of your site have enough contrast with their background to make the content easily legible? The content of your site consists of text, buttons, links, and headings.(Required)

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Use the contrast analysis widget (opens in a new tab) and make sure you don't have any humps with a red background. If you do, find out which text causes them by clicking the Highlight Low Contrast Elements button. Are all content colors accessible?

Yes, all content of the site has a sufficient contrast ratio, since all the bumps in that tool have a green or yellow background.

I find everything on the site pretty easy to read, but some short bumps in that tool have a pink background.

No, even I have trouble reading some of the text on the site, and that tool shows some really big bumps with pink backgrounds.

4. Does each page of your site include a method for visitors on keyboards or screen readers to skip over the main navigation to get them immediately into the main part of the page?(Required)

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Open your site in your browser of choice and when it finishes loading, press the tab key once or a few times. If a link comes up offering you to "skip navigation", or "skip to content", activate it by hitting the Enter key. If this takes you past the site menu, select "Yes". If this option never comes up and you end up being forced to tab through the menu, or it pops up but it doesn't jump you past the menu, select "No". Is there a skip link?

Yes.

No.

5. Does your site disable the ability to zoom it in for those who need the text to be larger in order to read it?(Required)

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Open your site on a phone or mobile device. Try to pinch to zoom in. Is zooming disabled?

Yes, it's impossible to zoom the site in on a mobile device. Nothing happens when I pinch to zoom.

No, I can zoom in quite a bit by pinching.

Would you like to take the fuller version of this quiz?

Yes, I've got a few more minutes

No, give me these results. I may come back later when I have more time.

6. Is every part of your site accessible through keyboard interaction to people who can’t use a mouse or a trackpad?(Required)

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Go to your website in your browser of choice. Hit the tab key repeatedly to move through the interactive elements of your site. Use shift-tab to move backwards. Hit enter to follow a link or click a button. If you can't see where you are as you move through the page, or if you can't move through the page at all, select "No". Can you access every part of the site?

Yes, vistors coming on keyboards can access every part and every function of the site.

There are a few things you need a mouse for, but most of the site is okay by keyboard.

No, I can't see where I am when I tab in the site, or there are lots of places I can't tab to.

7. Are your links distinguishable by more than just a different color?(Required)

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If the only thing setting your links apart from regular text is their color, mark "Yes". If your links are underlined, bolded, or have some other identifying feature, mark "No". Do links use more than just color?

No, color is the only feature that makes the links look different from regular text.

Yes, there's another feature of the links that makes them look different from other text.

8. Does your site have any images of text?(Required)

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Go to your site and try to select all the text. If as you go to select the text, each letter gets highlighted, it's actual text. If there are words that you can't highlight (usually headings, or part of images), mark "Yes." Are there any images of text?

Yes.

No.

9. Are the headings of your site at appropriate levels? These should follow each other sequentially and allow screen-reader users to understand the structure of your site well.(Required)

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The easiest way to check heading levels is by installing and activating the Headings bookmarklet from the Accessibility Bookmarklet page (opens in a new tab). Are headings sequential?

Yes, the headings progress from H1 on without skipping levels.

No, the levels seem pretty random.

The site has no headings.

10. Does your site have any video, audio, or animation that plays automatically without giving visitors a way to stop or pause it?(Required)

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When you load your site, or any page of it, is there any video or audio that starts without there being an easily apparent way to pause or stop it?

Yes, a video or audio starts automatically, and it doesn't look like there's any way to stop it.

No, nothing starts playing automatically, or if it does, there's a really easy way to stop or pause it.

Website Accessibility Efforts Quiz

Give us your contact information and we'll send your quiz results (including basic recommendations for how to fix) right to your email address. If you'd like more personal help, leave us your number too, and we'll set up a time to discuss your site accessibility with you. We'd love to help!

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Web Accessibility Efforts Quiz

Website Accessibility Efforts Quiz

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