Site styles and contrast
Colors, fonts, and button styles brought to AA contrast while keeping your look.
Squarespace ADA Compliance & WCAG Remediation
We bring your Squarespace site into real WCAG 2.1/2.2 AA conformance at the template, content, and code level — manual audit, done for you. No overlay widgets.
What's included
- Manual audit of your pages, navigation, forms, and store
- Fixes through site styles, custom CSS, and code injection
- Alt text and heading structure corrected across your content
- Before-and-after report you can hand your attorney
Where Squarespace sites fail
Where Squarespace sites fail accessibility audits
Squarespace makes beautiful sites easy to build — and that's exactly where accessibility slips. Light text over photos, headings chosen for their size, and image-only banners look great in the editor and fail the moment a screen reader or a contrast checker arrives.
These are the Squarespace issues we find most often, each tied to the WCAG success criterion it breaks.
- 1.4.3
Text over images and light palettes
Headlines on photo banners and pale site colors that fall below the 4.5:1 contrast ratio.
- 1.1.1
Images without meaningful alt text
Gallery and banner images uploaded without descriptions, or described only by file name.
- 1.3.1
Headings picked for how they look
Heading levels chosen for size, so the page outline makes no sense to assistive technology.
- 1.4.5
Text baked into images
Promotions and menus uploaded as pictures of text that screen readers and zoom users can't read.
- 2.1.1
Menus and overlays that need a mouse
Mobile menus, pop-ups, and lightboxes that can't be opened, used, or closed with the keyboard.
- 3.3.1
Form errors that aren't announced
Form blocks whose errors appear visually but aren't clearly described or announced.
No overlays
Why an accessibility widget isn't the fix for Squarespace
Adding an accessibility widget through code injection is one of the most common “fixes” recommended for Squarespace — and it's an overlay. It doesn't change your content, styles, or markup.
The barriers stay where they were, and the widget can end up cited in the complaint. Real remediation changes the site itself.
- Nearly 1 in 4 accessibility lawsuits in 2025 hit sites that already had an overlay.
- The FTC fined a leading overlay vendor $1,000,000 in 2025.
What we fix
What we fix on your Squarespace site
We work inside Squarespace — site styles, content, custom CSS, and code injection — so every fix is part of your site, not a script loaded on top.
Content structure
Headings, lists, and links rebuilt so the page outline makes sense to assistive technology.
Alt text
Descriptions for your images and galleries, written and reviewed by a person.
Navigation and pop-ups
Keyboard access, focus visibility, and Escape-to-close through CSS and code injection.
Forms and commerce
Form labels, error messaging, and store pages checked and corrected where Squarespace allows.
Images of text
Promotional graphics replaced with real, styled text.
Honest limits: Squarespace doesn't give full access to its template code. Where a barrier lives in a part only Squarespace controls, we document it in your report and recommend the closest workable option.
How it works
Audit, fix, prove it
Manual audit
We test your real Squarespace templates against all 55 WCAG 2.2 AA criteria with axe-core, manual code inspection, keyboard, and screen readers. Every issue is ranked by legal risk.
Code-level remediation
We fix the issues ourselves, in your Squarespace site — not with a script on top. You get a fixed scope and timeline before any work starts.
Before-and-after report
We re-run the same checks and document each fix with screenshots, so you can hand the proof to your attorney.
Proof of work
A before-and-after report that proves the work
- 1.1.1Missing alt textIssue
- 1.4.3Low color contrastIssue
- 3.3.2Unlabeled form fieldsIssue
- 2.4.7Keyboard focus not visibleIssue
- 1.3.1Skipped heading levelsIssue
- 1.1.1Missing alt textFixed
- 1.4.3Low color contrastFixed
- 3.3.2Unlabeled form fieldsFixed
- 2.4.7Keyboard focus not visibleFixed
- 1.3.1Skipped heading levelsFixed
Sample report shown for illustration — not a client result.
- Before: every WCAG 2.1/2.2 AA issue, ranked by legal risk, with axe-core results and screenshots.
- After: the same checks re-run, showing issues resolved.
- Evidence: PDF with screenshots; screen-reader and keyboard video on request.
FAQ
Squarespace ADA compliance: common questions
Engineers, not lawyers. For legal questions about your situation, talk to an attorney.
Are Squarespace websites ADA compliant?
Not automatically. Squarespace templates give you a reasonable starting point, but your site's compliance depends on your style settings, your content, and any custom code. Low contrast, missing alt text, and headings chosen for size are the problems we see most.
Can I be sued if my Squarespace site is not ADA compliant?
Yes. Using a hosted website builder doesn't protect you — ADA website claims are about the site your customers use. Over 5,000 website accessibility lawsuits were filed in 2025. For your specific risk, talk to an attorney.
Do websites legally have to be ADA compliant?
If your business serves the public in the U.S., courts increasingly treat your website as covered by ADA Title III and use WCAG 2.1 Level AA as the benchmark. We're engineers, not attorneys — consult a lawyer about your specific obligations.
Should I add an accessibility widget to my Squarespace site?
No. Accessibility widgets are overlays: they don't change your site's code, and nearly 1 in 4 accessibility lawsuits in 2025 hit sites that already had one. Fix the content, styles, and code instead.
What can you actually change on a Squarespace site?
A lot: content structure, alt text, colors and fonts in site styles, custom CSS, and code injection for fixes the editor doesn't expose. Where a template itself can't be changed, we document it in your report and recommend the closest workable option.
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Real issues, ranked by risk, with a clear remediation plan.
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