Accessibility statement
This site targets WCAG 2.2 Level AA. This page says what we measured to check that, what we did not test, and the things that currently fall short — because a statement that only lists successes is not worth the time it takes to read.
Advolo C-Corp is a private company in New York. No accessibility template is mandatory for a company like ours, so this is a voluntary statement, written by the people who built the site rather than by a third party.
The standard we build to
We target WCAG 2.2, Level AA — the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines published by the World Wide Web Consortium. In the United States it is the standard that settlements and rulings under ADA Title III have consistently pointed to for commercial websites, and it is the standard this site was designed and measured against from the first page.
We do not claim conformance to EN 301 549. That is the European standard for public sector bodies and public procurement. We are a private American company selling engineering services, and claiming a regime that does not cover us would be the same kind of overclaim we spend our working days undoing for other people.
What this is not
This is not a legal opinion, and it is not an independent audit.
Nobody outside the team that wrote the code has reviewed this site for accessibility.
What we measured
Every number below was measured on the site as a browser draws it, not read off a stylesheet. All of it is checkable from the outside.
Contrast. Every piece of text on every page, at 375 px, 1280 px and 1920 px, sampled from the rendered pixels — with the text itself made transparent, so that what gets measured is the real background behind each word, gradients and translucent panels included. The lowest ratio anywhere on the site is 4.88:1, on the white label of the red action button. WCAG 2.2 Level AA asks for 4.5:1.
Keyboard. Every link and button on the site can be reached with Tab. There is one focus indicator, used everywhere: a three-pixel near-black outline, set two pixels clear of the element it marks. It measures 17.4:1 against a white background, where the standard asks for 3:1.
Targets. No link or button on the site is smaller than 44 × 44 pixels, at any width.
Skip link. The first thing Tab reaches on every page is a Skip to content link that becomes visible when it has focus and is a full-size target.
Layout. No page requires horizontal scrolling at a width of 320 pixels, which is the width WCAG uses to test a page at 400% zoom.
Text size. Every text size on the site is expressed relative to your browser’s own text size. If you have set a larger default in your browser settings, the text on every page follows it — not only when you zoom the page.
Structure. Each page has exactly one first-level heading, and headings descend in order. The page language is declared in the markup.
Motion. Nothing on this site moves on its own. There are no auto-playing media and no looping animation.
What falls short, today
This site uses JavaScript. Nothing on this site requires JavaScript to be readable or navigable.
We have not tested this site with a screen reader. Everything above was measured on the markup and on the rendered pixels, which is a different thing from listening to a page. Until we have done that work, we will not claim that this site is compatible with assistive technology — only that it is built the way pages that work with assistive technology are built.
Telling us something is wrong
If any part of this site is hard to use, write to sales@advolocorp.com and say what you were trying to do and what happened. It reaches the people who maintain the site, not a queue.
We would rather hear about a problem than keep a clean statement.