Accessibility
Everyone should be able to use this site.
Here is where we actually stand.
Central Creativity builds learning materials for every student in a room, including the ones the room was not designed for. A website that only some people can use would be a strange thing for us to ship. This page says what we have done, what we have measured, what is still wrong, and how to reach a person if the site gets in your way.
Last reviewed September 20, 2026. This page is updated when the site is, not once a year.
On this page
Four things, in order.
The short version: we build to WCAG 2.2 Level AA, we test every page we build against it, we have not had an independent audit, and if something blocks you we want to hear about it and we will fix it.
Click on the cards to jump to each section.
The standard
We build to WCAG 2.2, Level AA.
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines are the standard almost everybody means when they say a site is accessible, and Level AA is the level public agencies, school districts and courts generally expect. It is the level we design and test against.
What we are claiming, precisely.
Every page our team has built for this site is tested against WCAG 2.2 Level AA with automated tooling, at desktop and at phone width, and the failures it finds are fixed before the page ships. Color contrast on our gradient panels is calculated by hand at the lightest point of the gradient, because that is the worst case and an average would hide it.
The checking is part of building a page here, not a pass somebody does afterward. A page is measured before it ships, and it is measured again whenever it changes — which is how this page stays true instead of becoming a statement about a site that used to exist.
What we are not claiming is that automated testing is the whole job. It catches roughly a third of what actually goes wrong. The rest takes people, including people who use assistive technology every day, and we are honest below about where we are with that.
If you have a question about how a specific part of this site meets the guidelines, call 866-381-1760 or email support@centralcreativity.com. You will get a straight answer about what we have checked and what we have not.
What is true today
What we have built in, and measured.
Not aspirations. These are things that have been checked on the pages as they are now.
- Everything is reachable. Every link, button, form field and accordion on our pages can be reached and operated with the Tab and Enter keys alone.
- You can always see where you are. Whatever has keyboard focus carries a visible outline, three pixels thick and held clear of the element so it is not swallowed by a border.
- You can skip the menu. A “Skip to content” link is the first thing the Tab key reaches on every page, and it becomes visible when it gets there.
- Nothing traps you. When a pop-up form opens, focus moves into it and lands on the first field. Escape closes it, and focus goes back to the button that opened it.
- Headings are real headings and they descend in order, so the heading list is a usable table of contents rather than a pile of styled text.
- One main heading per page, and the page content sits in a single main landmark.
- Every image carries alt text that describes the photograph, written after looking at it rather than from the file name.
- Every form field has a label that is tied to it, so the field announces what it wants.
- Links that open a new tab say so, in words, not only with an arrow.
- Text scales. Type is set in relative units, so browser zoom and your own font-size setting both work instead of breaking the layout.
- It reflows to a phone. Every page is checked at 390 pixels wide with no sideways scrolling, which is the same test as a desktop zoomed to 400 percent.
- Motion respects your settings. If your device asks for reduced motion, the site’s animations and transitions stop.
- Rotating banners can be stopped. Where the top of a page cycles through several panels, a Pause control sits with the slide arrows and the dots.
- Nothing plays sound on its own. No page starts audio or video without you asking it to.
- Body text and small bold text clear 4.5 to 1 against whatever is actually behind it, which is not always the page background.
- Gradients are measured at their lightest point, by hand, because that is the point where white text stops being readable.
- Three brand colors are deepened where they carry text. Our lighter blue, orange and green are fine as a field of color and fail as small type, so the type uses darker stops of the same colors.
- Color is never the only signal. Anything shown by color is also shown by a word, a shape or a position.
What is still wrong
The gaps we know about.
This is the section most accessibility statements do not have. It is here because a page that lists only what went well tells you nothing about whether anybody checked.
Our pages are built so that a screen reader has something sensible to read, and the structure has been checked. That is not the same as sitting down with JAWS, NVDA or VoiceOver and trying to buy a kit. Until somebody does that, we cannot tell you how the whole purchase actually sounds.
Everything on this page was measured by the people who built the site, against the guidelines, with the tooling built into how we ship a page. That is worth something and it is not the same as an outside opinion. Nobody independent of us has been through this site yet.
The storefront runs on a commercial Shopify theme. We have tested its header, navigation, product pages and collection pages against the same standard and they came back clean on the automated pass, but we did not write them and we cannot change everything in them. Where we find a problem we cannot fix, we will say so here.
Documents, printed guides converted to PDF, and pages carried over from our previous website were not written to this standard. If you need something from one of them in a different format, ask and we will send it to you — that is not a workaround we are offering reluctantly, it is how we would rather you got it than not at all.
A handful of controls — mostly radio buttons and inline links inside paragraphs — are under the 24-pixel target size the newest guidelines ask for. They have room around them, which the standard allows, but we would rather make them bigger than rely on the exception.
Things we do not control
Where this page stops.
Some of what you use on the way to buying from us belongs to somebody else. We are naming them rather than quietly letting them sit inside our promise.
Payment and checkout are hosted by Shopify and built by Shopify. We cannot change how they work. If checkout is where you get stuck, call us on 866-381-1760 and we will take the order over the phone.
Our digital catalog is published through a third-party viewer on another site. It is not built to this standard and we do not control it. If you need catalog information in a readable format, ask and we will send it.
A few features on the store come from Shopify apps written by other companies. We choose them with this in mind and we will replace one that cannot be used, but we cannot rewrite them.
Getting help, and telling us
If the site gets in your way, a person will help.
You do not have to explain what WCAG is, and you do not have to prove anything. Tell us what you were trying to do and we will either fix it or get it done for you in the meantime.
866-381-1760
Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 5:00 Central. If you would rather place an order by phone than fight with a form, that is a completely normal thing to do and we will do it.
support@centralcreativity.com
Put “accessibility” in the subject if you like; it is not required. We aim to reply within two business days.
Anything on this site — a product description, a guide, a quote, a catalog page — can be sent to you as plain text, as a large-print document or read to you over the phone. Just ask.
Or tell us here.
The more specific you can be the faster we can fix it, but a single sentence is enough. Everything except a way to reach you and what happened is optional.
This page will be wrong eventually. Tell us when it is.
An accessibility statement goes stale the moment somebody ships a page without checking it. If you find something on this site that contradicts what is written here, that is worth telling us about on its own — it means a check got skipped, and we would rather know.
Central Creativity · Laurel, Mississippi · 866-381-1760 · Last reviewed September 20, 2026.