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Accessibility

Last updated June 2026

FREQ Acoustic Labs is a portfolio concept, so nothing here is actually for sale and no order truly ships — but we treat accessibility the way we treat the rest of the work: as a real, exacting discipline. Sound is for everyone, and so is the page that sells it. This is our standing account of how FREQ is built to be perceived, navigated, and operated by as many people as possible, written as if the store were live.

Our standard

We build to WCAG 2.2 Level AA. That is the target every page, component, and interaction is measured against — not a badge we earned once and forgot.

Dark mode is our signature, and we know neon-on-void can go wrong fast. So cyan and magenta text is paired with sufficient weight and size to clear AA contrast, never used as the only way to convey meaning, and verified rather than assumed. Specs read as art; they also read with a screen reader.

Keyboard and focus

Everything you can do with a pointer, you can do with a keyboard. Tab order follows the visual flow, a skip link gets you straight to main content, and nothing traps you — including the cart drawer, which returns focus where it belongs when it closes.

Focus is always visible. We use clear :focus-visible rings tuned to stay legible against the dark surfaces, so you never lose your place on the page.

Motion and audio, on your terms

FREQ leans into motion — waveforms, parallax, exploded product views. All of it respects your prefers-reduced-motion setting. Turn motion down at the OS level and the page serves calm static fallbacks instead of pulsing visualizations.

Audio is off by default, always. No tone, click, or loop plays without an explicit action from you, and a clearly labelled mute control is within reach the moment sound is possible. We will never autoplay sound at you.

  • Reduced motion honored: hero visualizer, scroll parallax, exploded view, and pulsing glows all fall back to static states.
  • Audio plays only on a deliberate user action — never on page load.
  • A persistent, labelled mute control whenever audio is in play.
  • Live regions announce cart updates and toasts so changes are not silent to assistive tech.

Structure under the surface

The technical-luxury look sits on plain, semantic HTML. Proper landmarks, a sensible heading order, real buttons and links, labelled form fields with inline validation, and alt text on imagery — including the product rotation frames.

ARIA is used to clarify, not to paper over. Where a custom control exists, it carries the roles, states, and names an assistive technology needs to operate it the same way a sighted pointer user would.

Report an issue

Found a barrier? Tell us and we will fix it. Reach the team at access@freqlabs.example with the page URL, what you were trying to do, and the browser, device, and assistive technology you were using.

Because this is a portfolio concept, that inbox is illustrative — but the commitment behind it is the standard we would hold a live store to, and the level of detail above is exactly what makes a real report actionable.

Ongoing work

Accessibility is never finished. Browsers change, assistive tech changes, and we add features — each one is a fresh chance to get it right or get it wrong, so we keep auditing as we ship.

If something here falls short of WCAG 2.2 AA, we consider that a defect, not a footnote. Hear the whole signal — and use the whole site.

FREQ is a portfolio concept piece. No products are for sale and no policy here is a binding commercial agreement.