Estimated Read Time: 3 minutes. Last Updated: 9/9/2025
Our Commitment to Digital Accessibility
At Caldwell Law Firm, we believe that everyone deserves equal access to information and services. We are committed to ensuring that our website is accessible to all individuals, including those with disabilities.
Our Proactive Approach
We build and maintain our website with accessibility as a core principle, not an afterthought. Our ongoing efforts include:
Semantic Structure: Using proper HTML tags to provide a meaningful structure for screen readers and other assistive technologies.
Text Alternatives: Providing alternative text (alt text) descriptions for images and other non-text content.
Keyboard Navigation: Ensuring our website can be fully navigated and used using only a keyboard.
Color Contrast: Maintaining sufficient color contrast between text and background elements to support users with low vision or color blindness.
Clear Forms: Labeling form fields clearly so users understand what information is required.
Continuous Testing: Regularly reviewing our site against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) to identify and remediate areas for improvement.
Why We Don't Use Automated Overlay Widgets
You may have seen third-party "accessibility" widgets on other sites that promise instant fixes and ADA compliance. After careful research and consideration, we have chosen not to use them.
We believe these automated tools often provide a poor user experience, can interfere with the specialized software our visitors already use, and fail to address the underlying need for a natively accessible website. Our commitment is to build accessibility directly into the foundation of our site, creating a more reliable and seamless experience for everyone.
Why We Don't Rely On AI Tools For Alt Text
We do not believe that AI tools are, or ever will be, fully equipped to offer the insight and context that human-written alt text provides. It can create significant barriers when a screen reader is fed AI captions that fail to describe what is actually being shown. And just as importantly, AI cannot determine why we have included a particular photo or chart.
As such, even when our web platform offers integrated tools to “improve SEO/AIO” by auto-generating alt text with one click, we still choose to have an actual human review and rewrite all suggested “improvements” before they go live. Accessibility is not, and never should be, one click. Automated tools also fundamentally misunderstand why alt text exists: it’s for humans, not for search engines.
This is a Continuous Journey
We view digital accessibility as an ongoing process and dialogue. If you encounter any barriers while using our website—such as problems with navigation, content readability, or form completion—please help us learn. Your feedback is crucial to our improvement.
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