Accessibility on your website
Every website has an Accessibility page in its footer, and Publish refuses a color pair that fails WCAG contrast or a picture with no description. Write your own statement if you prefer.
Your website is built to WCAG 2.1 level AA as its target, and two things a dealership could break from the builder are checked every time you Publish. There is also an Accessibility page on every site, linked at the bottom of every page, so a visitor knows what to expect and how to reach you.
What Publish checks
- Color contrast. A combination of your colors that would make text or primary controls unreadable cannot be published. The error names the two colors and their ratio; adjust the swatch it names or pick another preset (see Choose a layout and theme).
- Picture descriptions. A picture in an Image and text section, and each photo in a Meet the team section, needs its Describe the picture (or Describe the photo) field filled in, for people who cannot see it. The section editor marks the field before you get that far; Publish refuses with a sentence naming the section, and nothing from the rejected draft reaches your live site. A section with no picture needs nothing. (Vehicle photos are described automatically by the car they show.)
The Accessibility page
Every site has /accessibility, linked next to the copyright line at the bottom of every page. Out of the box it carries our statement in your dealership's name: what the site does by construction (keyboard use, contrast checks, picture descriptions, headings and labels), what comes from other providers (vehicle history reports, Google reviews and maps, payment tools), and how to reach you, with the phone number and email address of your main location when they are set.
Write your own
Prefer your own words? Under Website, Pages, add a page with the slug accessibility and publish it. Its title and text replace ours on the same address. Unpublish it and ours is back.
FAQ
Publish says a picture needs a description. Where?
Open the section it names in the visual builder. The Describe the picture field under the picture is marked; write what the picture shows in a short sentence, for example "Our team in front of the showroom", or remove the picture.
Does the page satisfy the ADA?
A statement is one part of it. The site's construction (keyboard use, contrast, descriptions, labels) is the substance, and the statement tells a visitor how to get help when something is still in the way. Talk to your own counsel about what your state and your situation require.
Can I hide the Accessibility link?
No. It is on every site, like the copyright line.