The typical old site: what our scanner would flag
Sites for oysters & seafoodrestaurants tend to fail in the same ways. Here’s the composite, rated the way our scanner rates findings — and who each one locks out.
- Critical
The daily oyster list is a photograph
The one thing that changes every day — which oysters are in — is posted as a picture. A screen reader reads nothing: no varieties, no origins, no prices. A blind guest has no idea what's in the raw bar today, and the text can't be searched or zoomed.
- Serious
Text is painted onto a harbor photo
Hours and the raw-bar blurb sit as white text over a bright photo of the water. The contrast shifts with the image and dips far below what low-vision guests need — and some screen readers miss text baked into a background entirely.
- Critical
Takeout means a phone call only
There's no online ordering at all. For guests who are deaf or hard of hearing, a phone-only takeout line isn't an inconvenience — it's a closed door. Everyone else just goes somewhere they can order in two taps.
- Serious
Photos have no alt text
The seafood tower, the branzino, the room — none of it described. Screen readers skip the images or read filenames, so the restaurant's best sales pitch is invisible to blind guests.
- Moderate
Headings jump around
The page skips heading levels for visual effect, breaking the outline screen-reader users rely on to navigate. What looks like a clear structure to a sighted guest is a maze to everyone else.
The Remi rebuild
The rebuilt Ostra keeps the personality — the palette, the type, the mood — and removes the barriers. Accessible to WCAG 2.2 AA by default, and owned by the restaurant: the domain, the content, the guest relationships.
“Today's shuck” is real, editable text
The oyster list is HTML the kitchen updates in seconds from a phone — East coast, West coast, per-piece pricing. Screen readers read it, Google indexes it, and it never goes stale.
Coastal palette, AA contrast
Ostra keeps the sea-glass teal and bright whites of a waterfront room, but every pairing is clamped to WCAG 2.2 AA contrast — including the text that sits over photography, which gets a real background treatment instead of floating on the image.
Online ordering is built in
Guests order the tower or a lobster roll straight from the site — no phone call required, which is exactly the point for guests who can't use one. The menu and the order flow are the same accessible markup.
Structure a screen reader can navigate
Real headings in order, real landmarks, a skip link, and alt text on every photo — a blind guest can jump straight to the raw bar list the way a sighted guest's eye does.
Click through the live demo
A menu that changes with the tide deserves a site that can keep up — one where “what's fresh today” is text everyone can read.
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