Accessible & ADA-Compliant Webflow Theme

Partly. Webflow produces clean HTML and its newer components carry some ARIA, but the platform cannot decide whether your menu is reachable, whether your form fields are labelled, or whether an animation hides a focused element. Accessibility in Webflow is decided by the person building in the Designer, not by the platform. That is what a website accessibility audit measures.

Yes. We have taken ordinary Webflow marketing sites and CMS sites to WCAG 2.2 AA without rebuilding them from scratch. It takes semantic elements instead of stacked divs, custom attributes for roles and states, a little embedded script for focus management in the Lightbox and menus, and disciplined content rules for the CMS. Real examples are in our web accessibility case studies.

They are the most common cause we see. An element animated from zero opacity is still focusable, so a keyboard user tabs into something they cannot see. Scroll-triggered motion runs even for a visitor who has asked their computer to reduce motion. Both are fixable: keep hidden elements out of the tab order until they are shown, and respect the reduced motion preference.

No. An overlay sits on top of the page. It cannot turn a div into a button, give a form field a label, put focus inside your Lightbox, or write meaningful alternative text for a CMS image. Overlays are one reason many sites still receive demand letters after paying for “compliance”. Real remediation changes the build, which is what we do.

For remediation, yes: an invite as a designer or content editor on your Webflow workspace is the cleanest way, because the fixes belong in your components and classes. For an audit only, the published URL is enough. We can also deliver a written change list your own team applies, if you prefer to keep the project closed.

A focused audit of a marketing site is usually reported within one to two weeks of receiving access. Remediation depends on how many components and CMS templates are involved, and we agree the schedule in writing before starting. Nothing is billed until the scope is fixed and confirmed by you in an email.

A written audit report with screenshots, severity, WCAG 2.2 references and the fix for every issue; the remediated Webflow project; a re-test after the changes; an honest accessibility statement for your footer; and a VPAT where a buyer asks for one.

Testing is carried out by a DHS Trusted Tester on accessibility, working with IAAP-certified colleagues. We test by hand with JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver and TalkBack, keyboard only, at 200% and 400% zoom, with the Colour Contrast Analyser, and use Deque axe, Lighthouse and WAVE only as a first pass. Automated tools alone catch a small share of real barriers.