Welcome to the new Mercury Media Partners (formerly blindbearcreative.com)
Mercury Media builds fast, high-performance websites engineered for accessibility, usability, and long-term resilience. Most local marketing agencies sell polished templates loaded with accessibility gaps and hidden liabilities. Mercury Media builds fast, high-performance websites engineered for accessibility, usability, and long-term resilience — helping organizations reduce legal risk, strengthen trust, and serve more people.
Accessibility isn't a checklist here. It's our mission. Built by disabled professionals with lived expertise in accessible communication and digital design. We proudly donate 5% of profits to Guiding Eyes for the Blind.
Accessibility failures don't just create legal risk. They create barriers for real people trying to use your site.
ADA website lawsuits have risen significantly in recent years, especially for local businesses using inaccessible website templates or outdated design practices. Many organizations don't realize their site has accessibility gaps until automated scans flag issues that impact real users.
Missing alt text, poor contrast, inaccessible forms, and broken keyboard navigation can create barriers for users and increase legal exposure.
Fixing accessibility after launch is often far more expensive than building inclusively from the start.
Accessibility issues are frequently identified through automated scans that review public websites for common failures. Mercury Media helps businesses build sites that are more resilient, inclusive, and future-ready.
"We don't just know the rules. We navigate by them every day."
26% of American adults have a disability. A compliant website gives you access to 100% of the population. Why settle for a solar system when the whole galaxy could be yours?
This Channel 2 Action News investigation inspired our entire campaign. We saw good businesses getting bitten, and decided it was time to unleash a solution.
A recent Channel 2 Action News investigation highlights a massive surge in ADA website accessibility lawsuits targeting businesses. Here is our take on the situation and how to protect your territory.
Many of these tools fail to address real usability barriers and can make websites harder to navigate for screen reader and keyboard users.
At Mercury Media, we believe accessibility should be built into the foundation of your website, not layered on afterward.
Doing nothing is the most expensive option.
A clear, fixed-price path to a compliant rebuild and ongoing protection. No confusing legal jargon. Just good, obedient code.
We sniff out the problems before the plaintiff lawyers do. You get a prioritized PDF report of your current lawsuit risk, highlighting the exact accessibility traps hiding in your code.
We take your site to obedience school. In just 14 days, we rebuild your web presence to align with WCAG 2.1 AA best practices—complete with semantic HTML, proper alt text, and a fetching new design.
We stay on the porch and keep watch. Our optional monthly retainer ensures ongoing scans, regression checks, and accessibility updates so your site stays compliant as you add new content.
We don't just sniff out the issues; we rebuild your site to pass rigorous automated and manual accessibility testing.
Fixed keyboard traps, missing alt attributes, and contrast failures across 40+ pages in under 14 days.
Rebuilt online menus and reservation forms to be fully navigable via keyboard and screen readers.
Don't just take our bark for it.
Shannon Paulk
"Blind Bear Creative (Now Mercury Media Partners) is exceedingly creative, professional, and a joy to work with! They are friendly, helpful, and a one-stop shop for all of your graphic design and marketing needs."
Say It Ain't SEO
"At Say It Ain't SEO, our core focus is dominating organic search for our clients. But when it comes to mitigating legal liability and executing WCAG 2.1 AA compliant infrastructure, we do not mess around—we bring in Mercury Media Partners. They are the only digital architects we trust to handle ADA accessibility audits and code rebuilds for our portfolio. Madeline and her team build legally impenetrable, lightning-fast sites that actually enhance our SEO campaigns rather than weighing them down. If you want true digital sovereignty and zero lawsuit risk, Mercury is the absolute gold standard."
Jason Banks
"Our firm manages several commercial properties in Atlanta and Smyrna, and my GC recently flagged ADA website compliance as a major blind spot for us. I don't have time to mess around with cheap widget plugins that don't actually protect the business. We brought in Madeline and the team at Mercury Media Partners (we used them back when they were Blind Bear) to audit our risk. They found the holes in our code immediately and completely rebuilt our site in two weeks flat. It's fast, it works perfectly, and most importantly, the legal liability is handled. Zero BS process from start to finish. Highly recommend them."
While we call Georgia home, we protect businesses coast to coast. Here is where the pack is most active.
Serving the heart of Georgia. We protect Atlanta's diverse businesses from predatory ADA lawsuits with fast, compliant web rebuilds.
Bringing big-city compliance to the Boro. We ensure your digital storefront is as welcoming and compliant as your physical one.
Serving the vibrant Miami market. Local businesses, from hospitality to professional services, are increasingly targeted by ADA enforcement.
Hounds are everywhere, and Smyrna businesses are prime targets for automated plaintiff bots. We provide fast, fixed-fee compliance.
Protecting Vinings businesses from costly lawsuits. We ensure your digital storefront is as welcoming and compliant as your physical one.
Serving the Fort Stewart corridor. We protect Hinesville's small businesses and veteran-owned enterprises with ADA-compliant digital infrastructure.
Mercury Media was built from lived experience.
As a legally blind founder, I’ve experienced firsthand how often accessibility is treated like a checkbox instead of a real commitment to human usability. A website can “pass compliance” and still fail the people trying to use it. We wanted to build something better.
♿️ That's why our 5% profit pledge is more than charity—it's a living repayment to Guiding Eyes for the Blind.
The company is named after my guide dog, Mercury, whose partnership and navigation support changed how I move through the world. That relationship shaped the way we think about accessibility: not as charity, not as a trend, and not as an afterthought, but as infrastructure. Accessibility is about whether people can fully participate. That belief drives everything we build.
Founder
Clear answers about compliance and our process.
Takes 3 minutes. Zero pressure. Just clarity.
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