Accessibility Statement

Last reviewed: September 3, 2026

We want everyone who visits williamdeanchocolates.com to feel welcome and to find the experience rewarding — whether you are choosing a gift, ordering for an event, or booking a class.

What are we doing?

To help us make williamdeanchocolates.com a positive place for everyone, we use the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2. These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for people with disabilities, and more user-friendly for everyone.

The guidelines have three levels of accessibility (A, AA and AAA). We have chosen Level AA as the target for williamdeanchocolates.com.

How are we doing?

We are committed to meeting Level AA accessibility and we review the website regularly to maintain and improve it. Our reviews combine automated testing with hands-on keyboard testing of the site's menus, search, shopping cart and product pages. Some parts of the shopping experience, such as checkout, are provided by our commerce platform and are outside our direct control. If you find any problems, please get in touch.

Let us know what you think

If you enjoyed using williamdeanchocolates.com, or if you had trouble with any part of it, please let us know. We would like to hear from you in any of the following ways:

  • call us on 727-593-0656
  • send us a message through our contact page
  • visit us at 2790 West Bay Drive, Belleair Bluffs, FL 33770

Statement History

  • September 3, 2026 — Remediated the findings of the September 2 audit that were within our control: the mobile menu, search, shopping cart panel and product image zoom now announce themselves correctly and keep keyboard focus while open; hidden controls were removed from the keyboard path on product and collection pages; form-field borders, the "sold out" badge and collection breadcrumbs were adjusted to meet minimum contrast; product sliders gained keyboard and touch-friendly navigation on all pages; headings, control names and landmark names were corrected throughout; and the "skip to content" link, focus behaviour beneath the fixed header, and touch-target sizes were improved. Descriptive text alternatives were written for every image in the store's media library, including seasonal products. Every fix was re-tested by automated scan, by hand with a keyboard, and with an independent second scanning tool.
  • September 2, 2026 — Updated the website to the current release of its theme, which includes accessibility improvements from the theme's developers, and completed a full accessibility audit of the website's page types against WCAG 2.2 Level AA using automated scanning, a review of the site's code, and hands-on keyboard testing in a browser. Adopted WCAG 2.2 Level AA as our target standard.