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The most important aspect of starting or owning a business, besides having a well-thought-out foundational business plan is to have competent business law legal services available when you need them the most. Experienced business law attorneys can set your business on the right course with the proper agreements and contracts that can solve most problems before they ever develop. Understanding that business and commercial law is a very specialized legal field that most attorneys don’t attempt to practice due largely to the broad and detailed business knowledge it requires. Understanding the complexities of how the rules and laws governing business practices and procedures operate, is only the first step towards mastering this legal craft.
Let’s take the construction industry for example its agreements and the numerous entities that reside in most construction projects. There are many individual entities assisting residential and commercial construction firms involved in a building project including but not limited to developers, architects, engineers, manufacturers, material suppliers, sub-contractors, and in many cases, day laborers. Many of these construction partners have collateral agreements and certain responsibilities shared by many to complete the project. Creating durable and effective contracts and agreements is a foundational tool of doing business within the construction industry. At Heekin Law, P.A. we specialize in all aspects of transactional legal services for participants in the construction industry. Our lead construction law attorneys, Geoff Heekin and Ariel Spires have over 40 years of shared construction law experience in both transactional; drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts and litigation services; dispute resolution for both residential and commercial construction issues. As skilled negotiators, we understand the regulations and specific laws governing the construction industry. We also understand the necessity of completing construction projects on time and resolving a defect before it causes delays and further complications. Our collective goal is to resolve matters amicably to prevent costly legal proceedings and protect ongoing relationships whenever possible. We are however proven trial attorneys and ready to argue unresolved matters in local, state, or federal court if necessary. Therefore, our construction law practice is equipped to resolve disputes involving construction delays, construction liens, construction defects, breach of construction contracts, and issues in construction non-completion.
Regardless of your position as a contractor, developer, property owner, or other professional involved in the construction industry, we can assist you in resolving any construction law issue. If you have a need for a construction law attorney in Jacksonville, Fl we offer free, no-obligation consultations. In today’s construction environment, having an experienced and knowledgeable legal partner is a prudent step towards avoiding costly legal entanglements. At Heekin Law, P.A. we represent numerous construction industry businesses that share the same goals of performance, profitability, and determinable outcomes. With so many players and opportunities that something or someone’s performance is substandard or unfulfilled, many construction projects are breeding grounds for disputes and unresolved issues. At Heekin Law, P.A., we are here to help resolve issues that might arise. Our legal expertise is second to none in defending the rights of our clients. Give us a call at 904-355-7000 so we may hear more about your construction issues and goals.
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