Picture a customer trying to book with you who can’t use a mouse, who has the text on their phone turned up to the largest size, or who listens to web pages instead of reading them. If your website fights them at every step, they leave, usually without telling you why. Simplified Internet Design offers website design in Casco Township, MI with accessibility built in, so more people can actually read your site, use your menus, and send you a request.
What an accessible website means in plain terms
Accessibility is about whether people with different abilities can use your website. That includes customers with low vision, color blindness, hearing loss, shaky hands, or a screen reader that reads the page aloud. It also helps people you might not think of first, such as someone squinting at a phone in bright sun or an older customer who prefers bigger text.
The widely used guide for this is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, published by the W3C. You can read the W3C overview of WCAG if you want the details. For most small-business sites, though, the work comes down to a handful of practical fixes.
Common problems we find and fix
When we review an existing site, the same issues come up again and again:
- Images with no alt text, so a screen reader says “image” or reads out a file name.
- Light gray text on a white background that is hard to read for many visitors.
- Menus and buttons that only work with a mouse, not with the Tab key.
- Contact forms with missing labels or error messages that don’t say what went wrong.
- Headings used for looks instead of structure, which makes a page hard to skim by ear.
- Links that just say “click here,” with no clue where they go.
Each of these is fixable. Furthermore, many of the fixes make the site better for everyone. Clear labels cut down on botched form submissions, and stronger contrast is easier on every pair of eyes.
How accessibility fits into a new website or an update
On a new build, we plan for it from the start: readable fonts and colors, a logical heading order, keyboard-friendly menus, and forms that explain themselves. That costs far less than going back to fix it later.
If you already have a website, we can start with an accessibility review. We check pages by hand and with testing tools, then give you a short list of what to fix first. Some owners have us make the changes; others want to handle the simple ones, such as alt text, themselves. Either way, we keep the review honest. Automated scanners and plug-in overlays catch only part of the problem, so we don’t promise that a single tool makes a site compliant.
Two related pages may help. Our Clay Township page covers photos and alt text in more depth. Our St. Clair Township page looks at making forms reliable once they are easy to use.
Website design in Casco Township, MI and nearby
Casco Township is a rural township on the western edge of St. Clair County, along the Macomb County line. It was established in 1849 and had 3,990 residents at the 2020 Census. It covers about 37 square miles and includes the small communities of Adair, Casco, Muttonville, and Peters. Muttonville sits on the western edge, next to Richmond in Macomb County.
Because the township is spread out, a lot of people check a business online before they make the drive. That makes it worth having a website that works for every one of them, not just the ones with perfect eyesight and a steady hand.
We design and update websites across St. Clair County and nearby Macomb County. Learn how a project works on our website design services page, or look through our portfolio. Next door, we also offer website design in Richmond. For every community we serve, see our Service Areas page.
Want to know how your site holds up?
Call 810-637-1849 or reach us through our contact form. Send your website address and we will tell you plainly where visitors are most likely to get stuck.