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According to Dodge Data & Analytics, a construction industry data, and analytics provider. Construction project starts have been up significantly, year over year since 2013. The total construction amounts are up from 2013’s 547-billion-dollar level to 2019 projected revenues of just over 808 billion dollars. Among the gains and topping the list were single-family homes 159B in 2103 to 232B in 2019 and institutional buildings from 92B to 149B for the same period. Even during these mature market times, capital growth is expected with moderate interest rates making project starts and home sales to remain very active according to industry spokespersons. In an article outlining Construction and Housing Starts Outlook 2019-2028, with the U.S. economy in its 10th year of expansion, construction jobs consist of the fourth largest source of job growth with its largest increases in many states including Florida. Unfortunately, residential construction jobs remain below the peak, pre-recession levels but in 2019, commercial construction jobs are slightly above the peak, pre-recession levels making this sector of the industry attractive to potential employment numbers. As overall construction sectors continue to grow, the need for competent legal advice and counsel from a construction law attorney in Jacksonville fl becomes more and more important. Heekin Law, P.A. has for almost 40 years been offering transactional, (contract creation and review, business formations, etc.) as well as handling legal disputes and litigation services to all aspects of the construction industry. From construction agreements, defects and liens to licensing, Heekin Law, P.A. represents any construction entity including, architects, developers, contractors, sub-contractors, material suppliers as well as property owners needing resolutions to any construction law issue.
St. Johns County, especially the City of St. Augustine is experiencing unprecedented growth in both commercial and residential construction projects. From the beaches, with storm-related renovations to newly planned residential and commercial developments, St. Augustine is being inundated with construction enterprises the scale of which has not been seen before. When construction problems arise hiring a business and construction law attorney can be challenging in this highly specialized and complex legal field. Fortunately, for defendants and plaintiffs alike, one of Florida’s most renowned and experienced commercial and business law firms is close at hand. Heekin Law, P.A., located in Jacksonville Florida has assembled a team of business and construction law attorneys with a simple approach to resolving disputes, many of which are contained before they actually develop. Proactive solutions in legal matters ranging from contract formations to handling project overruns, defects or liens. Heekin Law, P.A. also has extensive experience assisting HOA and COA’s in compliance, document drafting, and review and assessment collection. Many times, real estate issues develop involving contracts, leases, boundary and landlord-tenant disputes. Heekin Law, P.A. practices real estate law with an emphasis on these related issues. Our lead attorneys, Geoff Heekin and Hunter Malin provide individualized, cost-effective legal assistance on these and other business and commercial law services. Successful and durable outcomes are our commitment to our clients facing disputes. Give us a call at 904-355-700 for a free, no-obligation consultation to discuss your legal needs.
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to