Accessiblity Statement
Last Date Updated: January, 2026

The site language is set to English, United States. Why is that important? For people using assistive technologies, like screen readers, they are not interacting with the text you see on the screen, they are interacting with the HTML code that's in the background. According to Henry, if the language was set to for example spanish, the screen reader might read your content with a spanish accent. Making it very irritating for the person listening. 

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Pages and titles are the next thing I have made accessible. I have written all my page titles in the website menu sentence case, like this "Home", and not in all caps, like this "HOME". This is what you as a visitor see when you access my site.

 

The next is Page Titles,  these are the links you see in a search engine, like Google, if you search for my store. It tells the person seeing the search result what my page is about. I have my site name, and location in the meta title. 

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​​I have written an Accessibility Statement, which is what you are reading now and have added a link to my footer, so that no matter what page you are on, you can easily access it.

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I have added an accessible menu to the site and the text is in good contrast with the background. I have changed the on hover feature, to a different darker turquoise color so you know that you are hovering. When you click on a page you will see the color of the menu page that you are on, change to a bolder darker color.

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To be completely compliant with WAGAC, according to Henry, a site needs to have a footer menu or a search bar. 

 

A menu has been added to the footer of this website and each item has been linked to its respective page. You can clearly see that the item is linked because of the underlined text. Why underline, why not just change the color? Some people don't see color the same way we do, but they can recognize a underlined text as a link. Because it's in the footer, you will be able to access it from every single page of my site.

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An accessible Wix Site Search bar has been added to the site's menu as well. The place holder text is black, so it's easy to see. Place holder text is the text inside the search bar.​ You can see that I have added a little something extra to the seach field, if you hover with your mouse over the search bar, the icon and the text "Search" expands, letting you know that "hey, here's a search bar."

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I have made form fields accessible. The contact form and the subscription form are as accessible as they can get. As you can see in the image below, the field that you enter your email in the text does not disappear. If the place holder text is there one second, and disappears when a user hovers over the text area, that can put a lot of cognitive strain on users and it can be very frustrating. I have added a permanent field title so it doesn't disappear and so that users always know what is meant to go in that box.

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​​​​​​​​​​The next is the button on the forms. The button on the form is set to show always the message, instead of setting it to show just for a time and that is because when you go to submit a message it can be confusing when you fill out a form, you hit submit but you get distracted, someone rings the door bell, you come back and you forget and wonder "Did I remember to send the message or not?" So you fill out the form again, and send it one more time. 

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​The next thing is that i have chosen an Accessible Site Color Theme for the site. How have I done this you might ask? I have chosen colors that contrast well with each other. In my chosen color palette, I have made sure that my colors number four, five, and eight, all have a minimum of 4.5:1 ratio contrast with my background color number one. I have checked that the site has a good color contrast by walking out the steps that Wix provides in their very helpful Accessibility Wizard, and also by checking the contrasting of the colors on WebAims website.

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After checking this page using the Contrast Checker, I can see that it has a contrast ratio of 5.25:1, so it passes WA Standard. The other pages have been checked as well.

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Next is the site's Text Theme. I have chosen something a bit more san serif, than serif. A serif font has ticks and tails, like garmamond or times new roman, ​or Inknut antiqua. According to Henry, this can increase the cognitive load on our users. He suggests using Helvetica bold, Roboto, Avenir, Tahoma, Verdana, or Open Sans as they are better options. I have used Poppins on this website, as I find it easy to read and hope you do as well. I wear glasses and I know some text can be very hard to read.

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When it comes to text size I have chosen to not go any lower than 15 pixels, since anything lower tends to be hard to read.

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​Adding content and heading tags

I have added HTML tags (heading structural tags) to the headings and content on the site to help people that are using screen readers to be able to jump to the correct place on the page. ​

Alt Text added to images​​

Alternative (Alt) Text has been added to all images on this website. I have based my alt text on the fundamental rule that Henry mentioned in the Accessibility 101 video. Which is that alt text should communicate whatever purpose that you meant the image to serve. 

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Alt texthas also been added to functional images, telling you what it is and what it does. The logo on the top of the page is a functional image and if you click on it, it takes you to the home page. The logo has also been added to both the header and the footer to make it accessible from any page. 

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The use of motion and animations has been reduced to help prevent discomfort or distraction for users who may be sensitive to movement.

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Reasonable efforts have been made to ensure that videos are accessible.  A visible play button is shown on the banner, so users can control the playback and stop it when needed. You can hover over the video and it will stop.

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Work is currently ongoing to add audio and text alternatives to videos.