Accessibility Statement

Our Commitment

Eagle Pass Electrician Guide publishes information for homeowners working out what an electrical job involves and what it should cost, and it passes requests on to independent licensed electricians. That is only useful if everyone can read it, so this site is built to be usable with a screen reader, a keyboard alone, magnification, or a reduced-motion setting. We use the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA as our target standard, and we treat accessibility as ongoing work rather than a box we have ticked.

Measures We Take

• Pages are built from semantic HTML with real landmarks: a primary navigation region, a main content region and a footer. A "skip to main content" link is the first thing in the tab order on every page and becomes visible as soon as it takes focus. On our content pages the headings step down in order without skipping levels.
• Every meaningful image carries descriptive alternative text, and decorative photographs are hidden from assistive technology instead of being read out. Icon-only controls, such as the back-to-top button and the mobile menu toggle, carry an accessible name.
• All interactive elements are native links, buttons and form controls, never click handlers bolted onto plain elements, so they are reachable and operable with the keyboard in the order they appear on the page.
• Every field on our contact form has a visible label that is programmatically associated with it, and required fields are marked in the label and in the markup.
• Body text and headings are set in dark tones on white or near-white backgrounds, chosen to meet the 4.5:1 contrast minimum for normal text.
• Body-copy links are underlined as well as coloured, so they never rely on colour alone, and links that open in a new tab are marked as such.
• The site honours the operating system's reduced-motion preference: when it is set, animations and transitions are reduced to effectively nothing.
• The layout reflows to a single column on small screens and page zoom is not blocked.

Conformance Status

This website is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 Level AA: some parts of the content do not fully conform to the standard. The site has not been audited independently, so we name the gaps we know about below rather than claim a level we have not verified.

Limitations

• Decorative inline icons. Most of the small vector icons that sit beside headings, list items and buttons are hidden from assistive technology, but a number of them are not, so a screen reader may announce an unlabelled graphic. Our home page and our services index have the most of these. In every case the text beside the icon carries the meaning, and none of them is the only way to reach or understand anything.
• Heading order on our "page not found" page. That page has a single first-level heading and then the footer's third-level column headings, so the heading levels skip from one to three. The rest of the site steps down in order.
• Focus indicators. The contact form fields switch off the browser's own focus outline and replace it with a low-opacity navy ring, which can be hard to see against the field border. Elsewhere the site relies on whatever focus ring your browser draws by default; apart from body-copy links there is no consistent site-wide focus style. Adding one is the next item on our list.
• Back-to-top button. The floating back-to-top control is hidden visually until you scroll, but it stays in the keyboard tab order while it is invisible.
• Content that needs JavaScript. On most pages, several sections start hidden and are revealed by a scroll script, so with JavaScript turned off that content does not appear. This statement, our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service do not use that pattern and read fine without JavaScript.

Technical Specifications

Accessibility of this website relies on HTML, CSS and JavaScript, plus WAI-ARIA attributes where a native element does not carry the meaning on its own, and on your browser and assistive technology supporting them.

Feedback

If you hit a barrier on this website, or you need information from it in another format, please tell us through the contact form. It is the only way to reach us; we do not publish a phone number or an email address. Tell us the page and what went wrong, and leave an email address so we can reply. We aim to respond within three business days, and we will send you the information by email while we work on a fix.