Website Accessibility

That is our commitment and we ask that you join us. It’s not going to be easy. Understanding web accessibility can be intimidating, especially the deeper you get. Getting to a point where you’re comfortable explaining the ins and outs of web accessibility is going to take focus and patience and plenty of time and resources. Most of all, it’s going to take commitment.

Starting today, we accept the responsibility of providing a fair and equally accessible web experience for all, and together, take steps to Grow for Good™. Whatever your motivations, we thank you for making this a priority.

How To Use This Guide

This guide is intended to make accessibility more accessible.

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is a list of recommendations to address known challenges people with disabilities face on the internet. Organized by levels, businesses should aspire to be WCAG level AA-compliant to deliver an appropriate experience for all users. Unfortunately, the WCAG can be a bit technical and overwhelming. This guide is intended to simplify each recommendation and suggest possible solutions.

HubSpot

This guide is written specifically for the HubSpot CMS. The explanations here may be adapted or interpreted for other content management systems but please do so with caution. Some of the WCAG recommendations are easily achieved with a basic understanding of HTML. Others require an extremely high level of coding and are practically impossible without the assistance of third-party software and services. Though there are many tools to help with addressing accessibility, the primary tool this guide is built around is a service called accessiBe.

accessiBe

accessiBe is a third-party accessibility widget and remediation platform. Without it, some of the more challenging level A and AA success criteria are difficult to resolve. The solutions recommended in this guide are written assuming a website is leveraging an active accessiBe subscription, which can be purchased here. Morey Creative Studios is an affiliate of accessiBe.com and is compensated for traffic sent to their website that results in business.

We've also provided a checklist to use along with this guide to track your progress. The checklist is a Google Sheet that can be copied locally and shared with a team to update as they go.

Each WCAG recommendation is organized below. The items that need to be addressed are coded in colors and symbols.

• A bright green check indicates "Resolved completely with accessiBe or HubSpot"
• A mustard-yellow dash indicates "Partially resolved with accessiBe or HubSpot but requires some manual intervention"
• A bright red "X" indicates "Not resolved with accessiBe or HubSpot and requires full manual management"
• A grey circle indicates "Not applicable for level AA compliance"

For general questions on our accessibility efforts or services, please contact us here. For questions on how to resolve specific success criteria, please comment on the individual articles.