Accessibility Statement

Our commitment

One in four adults in the United States lives with a disability. For a restaurant that is not a compliance statistic, it is a quarter of the dining room. We treat accessibility as part of building a site properly rather than as a feature to be added afterwards, both here and in the work we do for clients.

The standard we build to

We work to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA, which is the level referenced by most US accessibility requirements and the one courts have generally looked to.

Where this site actually stands

What is built in

These are measures actually present in this site’s code, not aspirations:

• Motion respects your settings. If your device asks for reduced motion, the scroll-driven hero animation is switched off entirely, section reveals stop animating, and smooth scrolling is disabled — handled in both the stylesheet and the JavaScript, so nothing slips through.
• Keyboard use is visible. Every link, button and field shows a clear focus outline, and the page can be worked through in order without a mouse.
• The contact form talks back. Fields have real labels, errors are tied to their field so a screen reader announces the right message, invalid fields are marked as such, and the send result is read out through a live region rather than only appearing on screen.
• Images are labelled by intent. Photographs that carry meaning have descriptions; purely decorative ones are explicitly marked empty so screen readers skip past instead of reading filenames.
• It works without JavaScript. Content that fades in on scroll is shown outright if scripts do not run, so the page is never blank.
• Structure is real. Proper landmarks, headings in order, a declared page language, and navigation regions that announce what they are.
• Text survives being resized. Sizes are relative, the layout reflows rather than clipping, and form text is set large enough that phones do not force a zoom.
• Colour is never the only signal. Links in body copy are underlined as well as coloured, and the palette is built so its two accent colours never sit at the same lightness.

Known limitations

Stated plainly, because a statement that admits nothing is not worth reading:

• No independent audit has been carried out yet. Our assessment is our own.
• The home page opens with a scroll-driven animation on large screens. It is disabled for anyone who has asked for reduced motion, but on default settings it is a substantial piece of movement.
• Some food and texture imagery is decorative and deliberately unlabelled. If you are using a screen reader you are not missing content, but you are missing atmosphere, and we know that is not nothing.
• Client websites linked from our work section are not under our control, and their accessibility is their own.

Tell us if something does not work

This is the part that matters most. If any page here defeats you, or you need something on it in a different format, contact us and we will help directly — we are not going to make you fight the website to reach a person.

• Email hello@qqstudio1.com
• Call (773) 789-9465

Tell us the page and what went wrong, in whatever words suit. We aim to reply within five business days, and if a fix will take longer than that, we will say so and give you the information you were after by another route in the meantime.

How we keep this current

We review this statement when the site changes materially, and at least once a year. Reports from visitors are what actually drive fixes, so they go to the top of the list rather than into a backlog.