What we tested, and what it found.
An accessibility statement is worth reading only if it says what was measured. This one does: the tool, the standard, the pages, the date and the result — including the part of the standard a tool cannot check, and what we are not claiming.
- Audited — 8 Sep 2026
- 14 pages — 0 violations
- Target — WCAG 2.1 AA
The measurement
GB Tooling aims at WCAG 2.1 level AA for this site.
What this statement coversThe marketing site — the five English pages and the five French ones, plus this statement and the privacy policy in both languages. parts.gbtooling.com is a separate application and is not covered here: it has not been tested against this standard, and it needs its own statement. If your real task is ordering a part, that is the surface that matters.
What was runaxe-core 4.10.2, with the WCAG 2.1 level A and level AA rule sets, against all fourteen pages in a desktop browser at 1440×900, with the audit held until the web fonts had finished loading so nothing was measured against a fallback face.
The resultNo violations on any page. Between 26 and 31 rule checks pass per page, depending on how much is on it.
What the tool could not checkOne rule came back incomplete on every page: colour contrast. Much of the text here sits over photographs and metal gradients, and no automated tool can sample a background it cannot flatten. Those combinations were set from measured values instead — white on the brushed plate is 5.47:1, the accent blue reads at 6.25:1 on the page's ink, and the logo blue, which is only 2.36:1, is used as a fill behind white text and never as text itself.
Built in on purposeA skip link on every page. One main landmark, which takes focus when the skip link is used. Focus managed inside the mobile menu, so tabbing off the last item closes it rather than falling into the page behind. A pause control on the moving banner. Reduced motion honoured in both the stylesheet and the script, with a still version of the rig diagram for anyone who asks for it. Alt text on every image. The page language declared as en-CA or fr-CA, so a screen reader pronounces each one correctly.
What we are not claimingAutomated testing reaches a minority of the WCAG criteria — the ones a machine can decide. No testing with assistive-technology users has been done, and no independent audit has been commissioned. Level AA is the target and the automated result is clean; that is not the same as certified conformance, and this page will not say it is. A human audit, screen-reader passes included, is the only thing that would change that.
If something here blocks youTell us what you were trying to do and what stopped you, at info@gbtooling.com or (819) 642-0099. Both reach the business line, where someone can act on it. A specific report is worth more than a general one, and it gets fixed faster.
Re-tested when the site changesThe audit is cheap to re-run and should be, on any pass that touches layout or colour. The date at the top of this page is the last time it was.