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Framer Accessibility Audit: Motion-First Meets Screen-First
For the founder or designer who shipped a gorgeous Framer site and wants it to read as well as it moves.
What We Keep Finding
Framer sites lead with motion, and motion is where the levels get confused. Three separate rules are in play, only two of them sit at the bar you are being measured against, and sorting that out is most of the value here.
Motion the page starts on its own, so a ticker that never stops or text that keeps animating, is Level A and needs a way to pause, stop or hide it. Sound that plays on its own is a different Level A rule again, and it also wants a volume control separate from the system volume. That is the rule people miss, because they file autoplaying video under the motion one. Content that arrives because the visitor scrolled is user-triggered, and that sits at Level AAA, above the bar almost everyone is measured against. Same site, three answers, and knowing which is which is the difference between a fix list and a redesign.
What none of that excuses is content that only exists after an animation has run. A reveal that hides its content from assistive technology until a scroll fires is not a motion problem at all, it is missing content, and the same goes for a custom component that looks interactive and announces as nothing.
The good news is that Framer's own accessibility panel reaches further than most people use it for. Semantic tag overrides, alt text, custom tab order, ARIA labels, pointer event control and a contrast checker are all in there. So a good share of what we find has a fix inside the tool you already have, and the report says which items those are before it says anything else.
What We Check
- Test the site with a screen reader, scroll effects and all
- Separate motion the page starts from motion the visitor triggers, because the levels differ
- Check any autoplaying audio against its own rule, including independent volume control
- Verify reduced-motion preferences actually calm the page rather than just shortening it
- Check custom components for names, roles, and keyboard access
- Measure text contrast over gradients and imagery
- Confirm content revealed by motion also exists without it
What You Get
Every service on this site runs the same three-pass engine: an automated scan, an expert review of all 55 WCAG 2.2 A and AA rules, and a hands-on session with a professional blind screen-reader user. You get one report with every finding screenshotted, ranked by user impact, and linked to its fix. Your team fixes, we verify: the re-audit is half price within 3 months.
The format is not a mystery either. Read the sample report before you spend anything.
The Honest Limit
One honest limit, and a warning about the free scan on this platform specifically. Some Framer component internals are not editable, and where a barrier lives there we say so and suggest the nearest accessible pattern rather than pretend a setting exists. On the scan, a scroll-driven site is the worst possible subject for it, because the scanner loads the page, waits under a second, and evaluates without ever scrolling, so most of your content has not appeared yet. A clean scan on a Framer site means almost nothing.
What It Costs
Rapid Audit: $499, up to 10 pages you pick, report in 5 business days. Standard Audit: $1,499, up to 25 pages in 10 business days. Flat rates, no discovery calls, and a real blind screen-reader user on every engagement. Pick your pages. We bring the humans.
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