Accessibility Statement

Byers Fence has been building fences around DeBary and Volusia County since long before anyone gave much thought to how a website reads out loud. We give it thought now. This page lays out the standard we work to, what we have actually changed, what is still broken, and how to reach a person if this site gets in your way.

What standard are we working toward?

We target the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, version 2.1, at Level AA. That is the benchmark most agencies and courts in the United States point to, and it is the one we measure ourselves against. WCAG rests on four ideas. Content has to be perceivable, so you can see it or hear it. It has to be operable, so you can drive it with a keyboard, a mouse, or a touch screen. It has to be understandable, so labels and instructions make sense the first time you read them. And it has to be robust, so browsers and assistive technology can parse the markup without guessing. Level AA is the middle tier of three. It covers the failures that genuinely stop people, like text too faint to read and controls a keyboard can never reach. We are not claiming a perfect score. We are naming a standard we test against and keep working toward.

What have we already built into the site?

Most of this is invisible if you browse with a mouse on a large monitor. Every page now opens with a Skip to Main Content link, so anyone tabbing through can clear the header and the menu in one keystroke. Every page carries a single H1 and a real main landmark. Every image has descriptive alt text, and we checked all of them rather than assuming. Keyboard focus is visible again, which is the fix we are least proud of having needed. A rule in our stylesheet had been stripping the focus outline off every link on the site, so a keyboard user had no way to tell where they were. It is gone. Contact form labels are wired to their fields. The map embeds have titles. The FAQ panels use accordion semantics instead of the tab roles they originally shipped with. Body text sits at roughly sixteen to one against its background.

Where does the site still fall short?

No site is ever finished, and we would rather tell you than have you discover it. A few pages still skip a heading level, so a screen reader announces an H1 and then an H3 with nothing in between. Our page banners and the band above the footer set text over a photograph without a solid panel behind it, which means the contrast shifts depending on what part of the image lands behind the words. The orange we use for a couple of accents is lighter against white than it should be. Form fields do not yet tell your browser to offer your saved name, email, and phone number. The mobile menu button opens and closes correctly, but it does not announce whether it is currently open. The FAQ toggles answer to the Enter key and not the space bar. Every one of these is on the list. Not one of them is there because we decided it did not matter.

How do you report a problem or reach us another way?

If something here blocks you, tell us and we will fix it. The fastest route is the phone. Call (386) 457-2045, say you hit a problem on the website, and it will reach the right person. You can also use our contact form or write to us at 39 Rosedown Blvd, DeBary, FL 32713. What helps most is knowing which page you were on, what you were trying to do, and what stopped you. If you use a screen reader or voice control, naming which one narrows it down quickly. We will look into it and follow up with you directly.

And if you would rather not deal with the website at all, that is completely fine. Estimates, scheduling, measurements, and paperwork can all be handled over the phone or in person at your property. A crew member can walk your fence line with you and read anything back to you on the spot. Nothing about hiring us requires you to use this site.

What about maps, fonts, and other third party content?

We control our own markup and we test it. We have far less control over the pieces that arrive from somewhere else. The location maps on our contact page are Google Maps embeds. We have given each one a title so it is announced properly, but the controls inside that frame belong to Google, not to us. Our typefaces load from Google Fonts and our analytics come from Google as well. If any of those services change how their code behaves, this site inherits the change, and we may not find out until someone tells us. The same is true of anything a browser extension or translation tool layers on top of the page. Where a third party tool creates a barrier we cannot remove, we will say so plainly and offer another way to get the same information or finish the same task. Usually that means picking up the phone, and we are glad to do it that way.

This statement was last reviewed on August 19, 2026.