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Accessibility Statement
What has been built in, what is known to fall short, and how to reach a person if something here gets in your way. Last updated 2 September 2026.
What we are aiming at, and what we are not claiming
Arco Outdoors wants this website to be usable by as many people as possible, including people using a screen reader, a keyboard alone, magnification, or a browser with scripting or images turned off.
We use the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at level AA as the working standard while building it. That is a target we design against, not a certificate we are claiming.
We are not claiming to be "100% ADA compliant", "WCAG certified" or "fully accessible". No independent audit of this site has been carried out, no certification body has assessed it, and — as the section below sets out — we know of specific places where it does not yet meet the standard we are aiming at. A contractor's website that claims perfect compliance without an audit is making a claim it cannot support, and we would rather tell you where the gaps are.
If something here is in your way
Call 305-951-8862 (Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM) or email jonah@arcooutdoors.com. You will reach a person, not a ticketing system.
Any information on this site can be provided another way — read to you over the phone, sent as plain text, or talked through in person at a consultation. You never have to use this website to do business with us.
In the build
What has been done
These are choices made deliberately while building the site, and they are testable — you do not have to take our word for any of them.
Keyboard operation throughout
Every menu, dropdown, accordion and form control can be reached and operated from the keyboard. Dropdowns close on Escape and return focus to the control that opened them; the mobile menu traps focus while it is open and releases it on close.
A skip link, first
The first thing the Tab key reaches on every page is a link that jumps past the navigation to the main content. It is visible when focused rather than hidden from sighted keyboard users.
Visible focus
Focus is shown with a 3px outline offset from the element, in a colour chosen to stay visible on dark bands as well as light ones. The browser default is never simply removed.
Landmarks and heading order
Every page has one main, labelled navigation regions, and headings in order with no levels skipped — so a screen reader's heading and landmark shortcuts actually work.
Text alternatives that describe the frame
Photographs carry alt text describing what is in the picture rather than what the page is selling. Decorative images and icons are hidden from assistive technology instead of being announced as noise.
Reduced motion respected
With reduce motion set in your operating system, animation and transitions are switched off and content that would fade in is simply shown.
It works without JavaScript
With scripting off, every navigation destination is still reachable and no content is hidden. The scroll-fade effect is written so that a script which fails to load cannot leave a page blank.
Forms that explain themselves
Every field has a real label, required fields are marked in text as well as in code, errors appear next to the field they belong to, focus moves to the first problem, and the summary is announced politely rather than silently.
Scrollable tables reachable
Wide comparison tables scroll sideways on narrow screens, and their container is focusable so a keyboard can scroll it — a common oversight that leaves content unreachable.
Text that reflows
Layouts are fluid and text is sized in relative units, so zooming or enlarging the default text size reflows the page rather than clipping it. There is no horizontal scrolling at ordinary phone widths.
Real HTML, not widgets
Disclosures use the browser's own details element, buttons are buttons and links are links. Native controls behave correctly with assistive technology by default.
No accessibility overlay
We have not installed one of the third-party toolbars that promise instant compliance. They are widely reported by screen reader users to make things worse, and they do not fix the underlying markup.
Told plainly
Known shortfalls
Published because a statement that lists only strengths is marketing. These are the gaps we know about at the date on this page.
Colour contrast in parts of the brand palette
Three colours inherited from the brand palette fall below the WCAG AA ratio for normal-size text on some of the backgrounds they appear on: the gold used for links and small headings on pale grounds, the grey used for small print, and a dimmer grey in the footer's legal line. They are used for accents, labels and secondary text rather than for body copy, but they are a genuine shortfall against the standard we are aiming at.
We know the exact replacements that would fix it while keeping the same hue, and the change is a small one to make. It is being weighed as a brand decision rather than quietly left — the honest position today is that it is a known issue, not a fixed one.
No independent audit
Everything above has been checked by us, page by page, against the guidelines and with keyboard and no-script testing. It has not been reviewed by an outside accessibility specialist, and it has not been tested by a panel of screen reader users. Those are different and stronger forms of evidence, and until they happen this page will not imply otherwise.
The error page at deep addresses
If a mistyped address is several levels deep, the page-not-found screen may load without its full stylesheet — a consequence of the site being built to work both at a domain root and inside a subfolder. It carries its own basic styling so it stays readable and branded, and the links on it work either way.
Photography and captions
Alt text describes what is actually visible in each photograph. A small number of older captions elsewhere on the site do not match their images, which is a content accuracy problem as much as an accessibility one, and it is on the list to correct.
Reporting a barrier
Telling us something does not work
If any part of this site is difficult or impossible for you to use, we want to hear about it — including if the problem is something not listed above. You do not need to know the technical term for it.
Useful, if you have it: the address of the page, what you were trying to do, what happened instead, and what you were using — a browser, a phone, a screen reader, voice control, magnification. Any of that helps; none of it is required.
What happens next. A person reads it and replies. Where something can be fixed quickly, it is. Where a fix is larger, we will tell you what it involves and, in the meantime, give you the information you were after by another route — over the phone, in an email, or in person.
We would also rather hear a report that turns out to be our misunderstanding than not hear one at all. There is no wrong way to raise this.
How to reach us
Phone: 305-951-8862
Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Email: jonah@arcooutdoors.com
Post: Arco Outdoors, 2940 SW 81st Way, Davie, FL 33328
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The rest of the small print
You never have to use this website
Everything here can be talked through on the phone, and a consultation happens at your property rather than on a screen.