SOLU — Accessibility

The commitment

SOLU sells systems that people have to use every day. A site that cannot be used by everyone who wants to read it would be a poor advertisement for that.

We aim to meet WCAG 2.1 level AA. We are not there yet on every point, and the honest thing is to say where.

What works today

The whole site can be operated by keyboard, and every focusable element shows a visible focus ring.
Home, Services and Work open with a film scrubbed by scroll on desktop screens. On each of them, a skip link is the first thing you reach by keyboard, and it goes straight to the written content.
Phones and tablets get a stills version of each film instead: the same words, over still pictures (and two short silent clips on the home page).
On the Work page, the rail and the niches of the two monuments work from the keyboard, as do the dialogs and the full-screen viewer: the arrow keys, Home and End move through the screens, Escape closes, and focus goes back to where you were.
prefers-reduced-motion is honoured: smooth scrolling is off, the fog renders as a still frame, interface transitions are switched off, the phone versions cut between pictures and play no clips, and the demonstrations inside the pages do not play on their own. The desktop films still follow the scroll, since they are the content.
Every form field has a real, visible label — not a placeholder — and errors name both the problem and the fix.
Page structure uses real landmarks and one h1, so a screen reader can navigate by heading.
Type is set in relative units and the layout survives browser zoom and enlarged text.
No cookie banner, no interstitial, no autoplaying sound.

Known limitations

These are current, real, and being worked on.

The films need JavaScript: The films on Home, Services and Work are drawn to a canvas driven by scroll. With JavaScript off, each page shows a text version of what it says instead. It carries the substance, not the choreography.
The films are long: Each film takes several screens of scrolling before the written content begins; the Work film is the longest. The skip links exist precisely because that is a lot to ask.
The films are not described: The films are presentational and carry no information the text does not, so they are hidden from assistive technology rather than described frame by frame. The screens shown on the Work page carry captions. If you think that is the wrong call, tell us.
Colour contrast is not uniform: Text over the films is protected by a scrim, but contrast varies slightly with the frame beneath it. We test the worst frame, not the best one. We accept that a few display lines over the films may dip below 4.5:1 on some frames; the offer, the prices and the terms are set on the settled dark ground below the films, where the contrast is fixed.
Not yet independently audited: Everything above is our own testing. A third-party audit is not yet scheduled.

Tell us what is broken

If any part of this site keeps you from doing what you came to do, write to xavier@buildwithsolu.com. Say what you were trying to do, what happened, and what you are using to read the site if you are comfortable sharing it.

A person answers within one business day. If we cannot fix it quickly, we will tell you what we can do instead and give you the information another way.

Formal statement

This statement applies to buildwithsolu.com and was prepared on 23 August 2026 by self-evaluation; it was last reviewed on 29 September 2026. It is reviewed when the site changes materially, and at least once a year.

Target standard: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1, level AA. Current status: partially conformant — the limitations listed above are the reason.