Built for everyone.

What that actually means

Accessibility gets talked about as a legal box to tick. It isn't — it's whether a real person can use your website. A few concrete examples of what's been done here:

• Every colour combination is measured, not guessed. Text and background pairs were checked against WCAG contrast ratios using calculated luminance values. Four colours in the palette were changed because they failed — including a shade that looked perfectly readable to me.
• You can use the whole site without a mouse. Tab through it and every link, button, form field and dropdown is reachable, in a sensible order, with a clearly visible focus outline.
• Headings run in proper order — h1, then h2, then h3, never skipping. That's how screen reader users navigate a page, and getting it wrong makes a site genuinely hard to move around.
• Every image has a text description so it means something when read aloud.
• Tap targets are big enough for a thumb — a minimum of 24×24 pixels, which is the WCAG 2.2 requirement people most often miss.
• Animations stop if you've asked them to. If your device is set to reduce motion, the moving backgrounds, scroll effects and transitions all switch off automatically.
• There's a "skip to main content" link as the first thing you reach by keyboard, so you don't have to tab past the whole navigation on every page.

How I test it

Google Lighthouse catches roughly a third of accessibility problems automatically — useful, but nowhere near sufficient on its own. On top of the automated score:

• Contrast ratios calculated directly rather than eyeballed
• Keyboard navigation walked through manually on every page
• Heading structure checked programmatically for skipped levels
• Tap target sizes measured at real mobile dimensions
• Layout tested at 375px wide and at 200% browser zoom

On the sites I build for clients

This isn't an upsell — it's the baseline on every tier, including the £395 one. A Starter site gets the same contrast checking, keyboard support, heading structure and alt text as anything else.

It matters more in some sectors than others. Dental and medical practices, opticians, care providers, solicitors and anyone doing public-sector work all have a real share of users who depend on it, and in some cases a legal obligation under the Equality Act 2010. If that's you, say so and I'll go further than the standard build — including a written accessibility statement for your own site.

Found a problem?

Email aidan@trabelo.com or message me on WhatsApp. Tell me what you were trying to do and what got in the way — you don't need to know the technical term for it. I'll reply within a couple of days and fix anything genuine as a priority, free.

Standards this aims at

• WCAG 2.2 Level AA — the international standard, and the one UK public sector bodies are legally required to meet
• Equality Act 2010 — the UK legal duty to make reasonable adjustments for disabled users