Accessibility Statement

We treat accessibility as part of building the site properly rather than as a feature bolted on afterwards. WCAG 2.1 Level AA is the benchmark we work to: it is the standard most commonly referenced in United States accessibility practice, and it covers the things that matter most in daily use — readable contrast, keyboard operation, text alternatives for images, and content that behaves predictably.

We will not tell you the site is certified, fully compliant, or perfect. No independent audit has been carried out, accessibility is never finished, and a page that passes today can regress the next time something is added. What we will tell you is exactly what we have done, and that we fix what we are told about.

These are the measures in place across every page of this website.

Skip to content

A “Skip to content” link is the first focusable element on every page. Press Tab as soon as a page loads and it appears — activating it jumps straight past the navigation to the main content, so keyboard and screen-reader users do not have to walk through the menu on every single page.

Headings and structure

Every page has exactly one H1, provided by the page header, and headings below it descend in order without skipping levels. Long-form text renders its subheadings in sentence case rather than the uppercase used in the brand styling, because uppercase running text is harder to read and some screen readers pronounce it oddly. The page is marked up with real landmarks — navigation, a main region, and a footer — so assistive technology can jump between them.

Keyboard navigation and focus

The whole site can be operated from the keyboard: every link, button, form field, FAQ accordion, and the accessibility panel itself are reachable and operable with Tab, Enter, and the space bar. Focus is never hidden — a visible two-pixel outline is drawn around whatever element currently has it, and that rule is applied globally so it cannot be removed by an individual component. The accessibility panel closes on the Escape key and returns focus to the button that opened it.

Motion

Sections fade and slide gently into view as you scroll. If your device or browser is set to reduce motion, those animations are switched off entirely and the content is simply present in its final state — there is no flash of hidden content and no partial animation. That behaviour is automatic and needs no action from you. If you would rather not change a system setting, the accessibility panel has its own reduce-motion switch.

Images and text alternatives

Photographs and illustrations carry descriptive alternative text written for that specific image, drawn from a central manifest so the description stays consistent wherever the image is reused. Purely decorative graphics — icons that repeat a nearby label, background textures — are marked as decorative so screen readers pass over them instead of reading noise aloud.

Forms

Every field on our estimate form has a visible label attached to it, required fields are marked, helper text sits next to the field it explains, and errors are announced rather than shown only in colour. The spam-trap field is hidden from assistive technology and taken out of the tab order, so it can never catch a genuine visitor.

Colour and contrast

The palette was chosen so body text and interface elements meet the WCAG AA contrast minimums, and colour is never the only way information is conveyed — links, states, and errors all carry a second cue.

Every page carries an accessibility button in the bottom-right corner, marked with the universal figure of a person with arms raised. Open it and you get a panel of controls you can switch on individually:

• Text size — Step the whole page up or down between 90% and 150% in 10% increments, without breaking the layout.
• Higher contrast — Darkens body and secondary text for anyone who finds the default contrast too soft.
• Highlight links — Underlines and outlines every link on the page so links are never identified by colour alone.
• Readable font — Swaps the site typefaces for a high-legibility system face.
• More line spacing — Loosens the leading on body copy, which helps a great deal with dense text.
• Left-align text — Overrides centred text blocks so every paragraph starts at the same left edge.
• Reduce motion — Stops the entrance animations, on top of the automatic handling described above.
• Grayscale — Removes all colour from the page.
• Hide images — Hides photography while keeping the layout and all the text intact.

Anything you turn on is remembered in your own browser and applied automatically on every page and on your next visit, so you set it once rather than every time. A Reset all button clears everything back to the defaults. These preferences stay on your device and are not sent to us — see our cookie and privacy policy for the detail.

These tools sit on top of your own settings rather than replacing them. If you use a screen reader, browser zoom, a high-contrast mode, or a custom stylesheet, the site is built to work with those first — the panel is there for the occasions when adjusting one site is easier than adjusting the whole system.

Two elements float above the page, and they are deliberately kept apart. The accessibility button is always bottom-right. The cookie banner is always bottom-left, and its width is capped so that even on a small phone it stops well clear of the accessibility button.

They never overlap and neither one can cover the other, which matters because a consent banner sitting on top of an accessibility control is exactly the kind of small layout accident that locks somebody out. The cookie banner also disappears for good once you have made a choice.

Being straight with you is more useful than a blanket claim of compliance. These are the areas we are least able to guarantee:

• Embedded third-party content. The service-area map on our contact page and in the footer is supplied by an outside provider. We do not control its markup and cannot warrant that it meets the standard. Everything the map conveys — the towns and counties we serve — is also written out in plain text on the same pages.
• Websites we link to. Social media profiles, our financing partner’s application, and our partners’ own sites are outside our control and have their own accessibility practices.
• Documents and content added over time. New pages, images, and reviews are added after launch. We apply the same standards to them, but a recent addition may occasionally slip through with a weaker image description than it should have.
• Assistive technology combinations. We cannot test every combination of browser, operating system, and assistive technology in existence. If yours behaves badly on this site, telling us is genuinely the fastest route to it being fixed.

We review this website regularly against the WCAG 2.1 Level AA criteria — as part of building it, whenever pages or components change, and periodically across the whole site. Reviews combine automated checks with manual keyboard testing and screen-reader spot checks, because automated tools alone catch only part of the picture.

Reports from visitors carry more weight than any of that, because they describe a real barrier a real person hit. When we receive one, we look at it directly rather than logging it and moving on.

If any part of this site is difficult or impossible for you to use, please tell us. Let us know the page you were on, what you were trying to do, and — if you know it — the browser or assistive technology you were using. Even a rough description helps; you do not need to diagnose it for us.

• Email info@gilrenovationservices.com
• Call (904) 790-1832 — Monday–Friday, 9:00am – 5:00pm. Closed Saturday and Sunday.

We read every message that comes in and we will get back to you. If something on the site is stopping you from reaching us, call and we will take your details, answer your questions, and arrange your free consultation over the phone — you should never have to fight a web page to hire a contractor.

D'GIL Renovation House LLC, trading as GIL Renovation Services, Orange Park, FL. Florida Certified Building Contractor CBC1269967.