Root Web Design Studio is committed to providing an accessible and pleasant website experience for visitors of all abilities, including people who rely on assistive technologies like screen readers, screen enlargement software, and alternative keyboard input devices to navigate the web.
As a responsible web design studio, accessibility is built into every project we deliver, from design through to content entry. We hope our own website leads by example.
Ongoing Efforts to Ensure Accessibility
We follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.2 as our guiding principle for determining accessibility. These are internationally agreed-upon standards that cover a wide range of recommendations and best practices for making content usable. As we add new pages and functionality to our website, all designs, code, and content entry practices are checked against these standards.
Website accessibility is an ongoing process. We test content and features for WCAG 2.2 Level AA compliance and to aim to meet or exceed the standards. Testing of our website is performed internally by our team members using industry-standard tools such as:
- The WebAIM WAVE tool.
- The Google Lighthouse accessibility audit.
- The WebAIM Colour contrast checker.
- The Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker.
Accessibility Features On Our Website
The following is a list of considerations we have included in our website to improve its accessibility:
- Using clean and semantic HTML tags to ensure pages can be easily read by screen readers.
- We require alt text on all content images and review it during content entry.
- Any decorative images and graphics are hidden from screen readers.
- Typefaces, text sizing and weight are carefully crafted so that they are fully legible to all visitors.
- Page templates are built to expand if the text size is increased in the browser.
- Including ARIA tags and Tabindex attributes where appropriate to assist navigation via screen readers and keyboards.
- Ensuring all colours pass colour contrast testing to WCAG AA standards.
- Inclusion of a Dark Mode stylesheet which can be toggled in the visitor’s browser settings.
Known Limitations
While we make every effort to provide information that is accessible for all visitors, we cannot guarantee the accessibility of third-party websites we link to. If you encounter a problem with any part of this website, please contact us and we will help.
Feedback and Contact
We welcome any feedback on the accessibility of this website. If you encounter an accessibility problem, or need information or a document in a different format, contact us at hello@rootwebdesign.studio.
We aim to respond within 5 working days and resolve reported issues within 20.