Accessibility
Thomas Beach Photography wants everyone to be able to look through the work, book a session and get their photos. This page covers this website, the booking site at book.thomas-beach.com and the client galleries at clientgalleries.thomas-beach.com.
The standard we work to
We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at Level AA. WCAG is published by the World Wide Web Consortium and is the standard most often used to judge whether a website is accessible.
How the site was checked
On November 11, 2026, the public pages of all three sites were checked:
- with axe-core, an automated accessibility checker, at desktop and phone sizes;
- by hand using only a keyboard, including the menus, the photo viewer and the forms;
- for text contrast, measured on the rendered page, including text that sits over photos;
- with wider text spacing and at a screen 320 pixels wide, where nothing should be cut off or need sideways scrolling.
Automated checkers catch only some problems, so anything you report is treated as something to fix.
What you will find
- A "Skip to content" link at the top of every page.
- Menus, the photo viewer and forms that work with a keyboard, with a visible outline on whatever has focus.
- Pause buttons on the home page slideshow and on the reviews.
- Written descriptions on the portfolio photos.
- Captions on the narrated videos on the Real Estate and Videography pages (the Cowboy Code clips carry them in the picture), and a written description of the music-only property tour.
- Labelled form fields, and error messages that say what to fix.
- Less motion when your device is set to reduce motion.
Known limitations
- The videos on our YouTube page play in YouTube's own player and use YouTube's automatic captions, which can contain mistakes.
- Videos delivered in a client gallery don't show captions yet. If you need captions or a transcript for one, contact us.
- In a client gallery, the keyboard moves through photos in order, but a screen reader reading the page top to bottom goes down one column at a time. Every photo is numbered ("Photo 12 of 245") so you can keep your place.
- A few parts come from other companies: card payments (Stripe), the spam check on forms (Cloudflare Turnstile), the Instagram photos and the Google reviews. We can't change how those work, but we can always help you another way.
If something doesn't work for you
Tell us which page you were on and what happened. We will fix it, and in the meantime help you another way, such as taking your booking or quote request by phone or email.
- Email: thomasbeach@thomas-beach.com
- Phone: (775) 354-8112