What we hold to, and where we might still be wrong.

Why we treat this as a commitment

Australian businesses have real exposure under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992, and a website that a customer cannot use is a customer that business does not get. We hold the standard for every client rather than deciding it project by project, so it is not something you have to think to ask for.

What that means on a page we build

• Text contrast meets 4.5:1 for body copy and 3:1 for large text, checked against our actual palette rather than assumed.
• Everything is reachable and operable with a keyboard alone, with a focus indicator you can actually see.
• Tap targets are at least 44 by 44 pixels, because most of these sites are used one handed, outdoors, in a hurry.
• Every image that carries meaning has alt text, and decorative images are correctly hidden from screen readers.
• Pages are marked up with real landmarks and one h1, and headings run in order.
• Each page declares Australian English, so screen readers pronounce it correctly.
• Nothing depends on colour alone to be understood.

Motion

Our sites are motion-led, which makes reduced motion a design problem rather than a switch. If your device or browser is set to reduce motion, this site does not simply freeze: background video is never requested at all, the poster frame becomes the artwork it was always composed to be, a static beam rule replaces the moving one, and every section is fully visible from the moment the page loads rather than waiting on a scroll animation. Nothing is hidden and nothing is missing.

Without JavaScript

Every page on this site is complete and usable with JavaScript disabled or blocked. The navigation stays visible instead of hiding behind a menu button that could not work, all content is rendered in the HTML rather than revealed by a script, and the booking and email links are ordinary anchors. The contact form falls back to your own mail client. We build client sites the same way.

On a slow connection

Background video is only ever an upgrade to a still image, and it is skipped entirely when the browser reports a slow connection or Data Saver is on. The site is designed to work on a mid-range phone on a poor connection first, and to look cinematic second.

What we have actually checked

Contrast is verified programmatically against every text and background pairing this site ships, using a script we keep in the repository so the check runs again whenever a colour changes. Keyboard navigation, focus visibility, the reduced-motion path and the no-JavaScript path were each tested by hand on this site. Automated accessibility audits are run against the built pages.

We are a small studio and this is a self-assessment, not a third-party audit or a certification. We have not had this site independently reviewed, and we are not going to claim we have.

Known limitations

• This statement covers this site and the sites we build. It does not cover our concept builds, which are older work and are not all held to the current standard.
• We have not tested with every combination of screen reader and browser. If yours behaves badly, we would genuinely like to know which one.

Tell us when we get it wrong

If any part of this site is difficult or impossible for you to use, email hello@brightandbuilt.com.au and tell us what happened, what you were using and what you were trying to do. We will fix it, and we will tell you when it is fixed. If you need information from this site in another format in the meantime, ask and we will send it to you directly.