Capital region
Accessible WordPress for Victoria & the Island
Victoria sites are often public-facing in a way a private SaaS marketing page is not: visitors, constituents, members, tourists. We build and maintain WordPress that can be used with a keyboard, read by a screen reader, and still look like a capital-city organisation — not a leftover theme from 2016.
A capital-region website has extra homework
People land on Victoria sites from a ferry schedule, a conference, a .gc.ca referral, or a “things to do” roundup. They are often in a hurry, on a phone, and not in the mood for a 12-megabyte homepage. Clarity, hours, location, and a form that works are not “nice to have.”
We are based in Burnaby, which is still Pacific time — unlike a lot of “Canadian” support that is not. Island clients get the same maintenance desk as Metro Vancouver, with copy and IA written for Greater Victoria rather than recycled from a mainland city page.
If you are a public body, a society, or a tourism operator with accessibility commitments, say so in the brief. We would rather estimate a WCAG remediation properly than discover a contrast problem in a launch week screenshot.
WCAG is a build constraint, not a PDF in a drawer
Audits, remediation, and accessibility-first development are part of how we work in Victoria — keyboard paths, alt text that is not a filename, forms that announce errors, and themes that do not trap focus in a mega menu.
Accessibility-first development
A quieter service list, in the order Island clients usually need
Numbered on purpose. Victoria briefs tend to be sequential: make it usable, then make it fast, then keep it that way.
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Accessibility audits & remediation
Find the blockers, fix the ones that matter, and document what is left so you are not guessing before an RFP.
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Website design
Calm, readable UI for organisations that should not look like a startup landing page — and should not look stuck in 2012 either.
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Custom WordPress development
Directories, member areas, and integrations with the tools Island teams already run.
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Maintenance & hosting
Updates, Canadian hosting, and monitoring so a volunteer webmaster is not the single point of failure.
FAQ
Victoria & Vancouver Island — FAQs
For workshops and launches that need the board in the room, yes. For care and development, remote in Pacific time is faster than a ferry. We will not pad a quote with travel you do not need.
Yes. We audit, remediate, and can build accessibility-first. We will not certify you into a legal safe harbour with a badge — we will make the site more usable and give you a written picture of residual risk.
Hours, events, and “sold out” states change constantly. The CMS has to make that easy, and hosting has to survive a long weekend. That is a Victoria-shaped problem we already plan for.
Sometimes. We are a WordPress engineering and care shop, not a full-service Island ad agency. Plenty of Victoria designers already have taste; they hire us to implement, host, and not let the site rot.
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