Accessibility

How Mangrove achieves web accessibility

The Mangrove team has been designing and building accessible websites for many years. We hold deep expertise in creating beautiful, sustainable and accessible websites and we believe in a web in which everyone can participate. We achieve digital accessibility by:

• Investing in our team’s knowledge of web accessibility through online training, resources and certification.
• Creating and maintaining a content guide that helps our team to follow best practices in creating inclusive content, images, and language.
• Regularly monitoring our own website via tools from fellow B Corp Equalize Digital and maintain conformance to WCAG 2.2 Level AA guidelines as closely as possible. We address features that are not yet conformant to WCAG 2.2 Level AA and amend them as soon as feasible.
• Performing occasional manual accessibility testing to ensure good keyboard navigation and general access.

Our current site

We re-launched this website and our updated visual identity in June 2024, with accessibility top of mind. This update included an overhaul of the Mangrove Web brand colors with an emphasis on improving color contrast, and selection of new typefaces and typesetting that offer better readability. You can read more about that update.

In addition to the design and styling changes, we reviewed and updated our website’s accessibility to conform as closely as possible to WCAG 2.2 Level AA. We also transitioned our automated accessibility system to Equalize Digital’s platform and began using our in-house manual accessibility testing process.

When auditing our website we specifically review and address the following areas:

• Structural markup
• W3C WAI-Aria landmarks
• Images
• Links
• Forms
• Scripts
• Visual design
• Keyboard navigation
• Screen reader navigation (NVDA)

Current Conformance Status and Audit Data

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. Mangrove’s website is conformant to WCAG 2.2 Level AA with a few minor known issues.

Website

This website scores a level of 100/100 for accessibility using Google’s Lighthouse accessibility tool. Prior to July 2021, our website scored 50/100. Our website uses HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP.

Product (Standard WordPress Theme)

• Our base WordPress theme has built-in accessibility features that conform to the best of our ability to WCAG 2.2 Level AA. We use this theme as a starting point for all client projects.
• Browser compatibility: We test our work in the two most current stable versions of major desktop browsers including those made by Apple (Safari), Google (Chrome), Microsoft (Edge), and Mozilla (Firefox). Browsers older than two major versions are not included unless requested by the client.

Services

• When our services include the use of WordPress, we always start from our base theme that has accessibility features implemented.
• When our services include the use of other platforms, we follow accessibility guidelines to the best of our ability within the templates.
• With Squarespace, we have limited control over some code elements that negatively affect accessibility.
• Mangrove offers additional digital partnership packages and customized services to clients to meet their required level of accessibility compliance desired.
• While we are not liable or responsible for any new, updated, or existing content on the websites of our clients, we do provide information, resources, and support to those with the capacity to invest in ongoing accessibility compliance.

Completed goals to date

• Implementing accessibility guidelines at all levels of our company planning, design, development, and consulting.
• Making our base-templates and the Mangrove Web custom plugin comply as closely as possible with WCAG 2.21 Level AA standards.
• Offering accessibility testing and services to our clients that fit within their budget range and goals.
• Continually reviewing accessibility best practices in our content development process regardless of if a client has chosen to explicitly comply with accessibility guidelines. This includes providing links to accessibility guidelines, checklists, and tips within the template for all client manuals.
• For clients that aim for ongoing accessibility compliance, we support developing a program that includes a third-party audit to compliance standards.

We will review this policy yearly. This policy was last reviewed in January 2026 by the leadership team.

Feedback

No website is perfect, including this one. If you have any suggestions, comments, or questions regarding the accessibility of this website or our products, please email us at admin {at} mangrove-web.com or fill out our online contact form. We will do whatever we can to improve your experience on our website.