Accessibility Statement

Our aim

EdgeQuote aims to meet WCAG 2.2 Level AA. The estimator is used by homeowners who did not choose the tool and cannot go elsewhere for that contractor's price, so it has to work for everyone, including people using a keyboard only, a screen reader, magnification, or reduced motion.

We do not claim conformance. No independent audit has been carried out. This statement describes what has been tested, what has been fixed, and what is known to be wrong. That is more useful than a badge.

What has been addressed

• Keyboard access to the estimator's question groups. Every radio group used to have zero tab stops whenever nothing was selected, which made an unanswered question unreachable by keyboard. Fixed and verified on a live estimator.
• Focus on step change. Moving to the next question used to leave focus behind; focus now moves to the new step's heading, so a screen reader announces where you are.
• Recoverable expired session. An expired form token used to produce a permanent "try again" with no way forward. It now recovers automatically and allows one retry.
• Contrast. The faint text colour was raised to a measured 5.06:1, above the 4.5:1 threshold for normal text.
• Small screens. The landing navigation no longer disappears below 480px.
• Form labels. Lead contact inputs are properly labelled.
• Language of the estimator. French estimators are served in French, including the error and helper text; five English strings that leaked into the French interface have been corrected.
• Language of the dashboard. The contractor dashboard used to declare lang="en" for every contractor, so a screen reader pronounced a French interface with English phonetics (WCAG 2.2 SC 3.1.1). It now follows the signed-in contractor's own locale.

Known problems

• No independent audit and no assistive-technology testing programme. Testing to date has been developer-led. No verified results exist for JAWS, NVDA, or VoiceOver.
• No accessibility conformance report (VPAT or EN 301 549 statement) exists. If one is requested by a public-sector buyer, it cannot currently be provided.
• The estimator embeds in third-party sites, and the host page's own accessibility is outside our control. A contractor with an inaccessible website can still present our estimator badly.

Feedback

If you cannot use part of EdgeQuote, tell us at sebastien@beyondtheedgestudio.com and describe what happened and what you were using. We aim to reply within 5 working days. If you are a homeowner and an estimator is unusable for you, contact the business directly as well, so that they can take your details another way and you are not left without a price.

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NOTES FOR YOUR LAWYER

1. This statement deliberately admits an open failure (dashboard language). That is the honest position and it is also the defensible one: a published statement that claims conformance the product does not have is itself a misrepresentation and, in the US, the kind of thing plaintiffs' firms quote back. Confirm the disclosure posture.
2. European Accessibility Act. Directive (EU) 2019/882 applies from 28 June 2025 to certain consumer-facing services, and its microenterprise exemption for services depends on headcount and turnover. Confirm whether EdgeQuote falls in scope as a service offered to consumers in the EU, and whether the exemption applies to this business. If it is in scope, an EN 301 549 accessibility statement in a prescribed form is required and this document is not it.
3. US exposure. ADA Title III website litigation targets consumer-facing interfaces. The estimator is consumer-facing even though the customer is a business. Confirm whether a formal remediation plan should be documented.
4. The feedback mechanism commits to 5 working days. Confirm that is deliverable by a sole proprietor.

WHAT THIS DOES NOT COVER

• Any conformance claim, any VPAT, and any EN 301 549 statement. None exists.
• The accessibility of a contractor's own website hosting the embed.
• Content a contractor writes, including their own question wording, which we do not review.