Florida businesses are being targeted over inaccessible websites. Livewire helps improve accessibility, reduce obvious risk areas, and document the work completed.
We use WCAG principles as the foundation for our accessibility work, then combine structural updates, usability improvements, assistive technology support, content review, and documentation into a more complete approach.
WCAG guidance is commonly organized around four core ideas: perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust.
Content should be available in ways visitors and assistive tools can recognize.
Visitors should be able to navigate and use the site through more than one method.
Content, forms, navigation, and interactions should be clear and predictable.
The site should be structured to work more reliably with browsers and assistive technology.
A stronger accessibility effort combines front-end fixes, content decisions, usability tools, assistive access options, and records of the work performed.
We improve the underlying structure so pages are easier to navigate, interpret, and use.
We address common barriers that affect how visitors move through and interact with the site.
We review important page content so it is clearer, better described, and easier to follow.
When appropriate, we add a robust accessibility widget to support readability, contrast, navigation, and user preferences.
For clients who need a deeper layer, we can create a streamlined version of key website content for screen reader users.
We help document completed accessibility work so improvements are visible, organized, and easier to maintain.
A stronger ADA-minded website combines standards, structure, usability tools, content review, screen reader access, and documentation into one coordinated approach.
“Livewire made the process easy, explained what needed to be done, and delivered a professional result.”
Accessibility work should make your website easier to use, easier to understand, and better prepared for future updates.
No responsible web company should promise that a website is lawsuit-proof. What we can do is improve the site, address common accessibility barriers, document the work completed, and help create a stronger accessibility foundation.
A widget can be helpful, but it should not be the only accessibility improvement. We prefer a layered approach that may include site structure, content review, code updates, skip links, usability improvements, documentation, and screen reader-friendly options.
We use WCAG principles as a guide, especially the POUR framework: perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust. The goal is to improve how real people and assistive technologies interact with the website.
Most improvements are structural or usability-based, but some visual changes may be recommended when contrast, readability, spacing, navigation, or form clarity needs to be improved.
Yes, but those platforms often require additional time and may involve extra charges. Closed website builders can limit access to the code, templates, forms, and settings needed for deeper accessibility improvements.
It is a streamlined version of the site’s most important content designed to be easier for screen reader users to navigate. This can add another layer of accessibility support beyond the main visual website.
Accessibility should be maintained as the website changes. New pages, images, plugins, forms, design changes, and content updates can introduce new issues, so periodic review is recommended.
Livewire can improve accessibility across many types of websites, but sites built on platforms like Squarespace, Wix, GoDaddy, and other closed website builders often require additional work. These systems can limit access to the code, structure, templates, and settings needed for deeper accessibility improvements.
If your site is built on one of these platforms, we will review it first and explain any additional charges before work begins.
Make the site easier to use, more accessible, better documented, and stronger than it was before.
LIvewire Web Design
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to