Our Commitment
The Oak Development is committed to making our website usable by everyone, including people who use assistive technology such as screen readers, switch devices, or keyboard-only navigation. Accessibility is something we actively build toward and keep working on — not a box we consider permanently checked.
Standard We Build Against
We use the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA as our target. This is the standard most commonly referenced by U.S. courts and the Department of Justice when evaluating website accessibility under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Measures We've Taken
Some of the concrete steps built into this site:
- Descriptive alternative text on every meaningful image
- Properly labeled form fields, including the AI assistant's chat input
- A “skip to main content” link for keyboard and screen-reader users
- Visible focus indicators on every interactive element
- Text and interface colors checked against WCAG's minimum contrast ratios
- Semantic page structure (proper headings, landmarks, and navigation regions)
- Decorative visuals hidden from assistive technology so they don't add noise
- Full support for reduced-motion preferences — our scroll and parallax animations turn off automatically if your device requests it
- A layout that works with browser zoom and text resizing
Known Limitations
No website is perfectly accessible to every person and every assistive technology in every situation, and we don't claim otherwise. If you encounter a page, form, or feature that doesn't work the way it should with your assistive technology, we want to know about it so we can fix it.
Feedback & Contact
If you run into an accessibility barrier anywhere on this site, please tell us. We'll do our best to address it promptly.
Phone: 818-239-6685
Email: info@theoakdevelopment.com
Alternative Ways to Reach Us
If any part of this website is difficult for you to use, our team is glad to help over the phone or by email instead — whether that's answering questions about our services or scheduling a free consultation.
