
Dinner on the Farm: Berry Good Farms Weekend Festival
Berry Good Farms is the on-campus urban farm where NFSSE students learn sustainable practices for growing fresh veggies, fruit, and herbs. This month, PQH was
“Nothing shines as brilliantly as work created with pride and passion .”
PQH Group Design, headquartered in Jacksonville Florida, is a full-service commercial design firm with the knowledge and experience for providing professional design solutions to private and government clients. Our firm is recognized for its service-oriented culture and being a leader in healthcare, education, municipal, and commercial housing design, backed by over 40 years of experience.
Our body of work, combined with a collaborative design approach, creativity, and emphasis on communication gives us the capabilities to provide customized solutions to each and every one of our projects. We pride ourselves on providing personal attention to every relationship.
With the addition of 3 new partners in the last 8 years, PQH looks forward to the future with the same drive and determination of the initial founders. Along with new partners come new ideas, new clients and new market areas that provide the foundation for growth.
Our company is built on reliability, functionality, and efficiency of design while creating concepts that enhance the environment of our community. We take pride in our efforts, and value the goals and objectives of our clients.
The process starts with listening and planning. Our licensed architects collaborate with the client to determine the wants and needs for the project. Through project and site analysis, a concept is created. Good project understanding is the key element for a successful outcome.
The creative process and concept is then applied by our Project Team to generate a design that meets the pragmatic needs of the project and the aspirational goals of the client. It is an integrated process where aesthetics and functionality are blended into a cohesive vision for the project.
Implementing starts with the Documentation process. It requires developing plans and specifications that convey how the building is to be constructed in coordination with engineering disciplines. It concludes with oversight and monitoring of the construction process until delivery of the building for its intended purpose.
Founded by Jose Perez, AIA, CGC, in 1982, PQH has evolved into a leading design company with six principles and a strong, committed, highly creative team of experts. With a history spanning over 40 years, our imaginative architects, interior designers, and general contractors are instinctually on the same page, with each uniquely talented gift coinciding harmoniously together. We believe that PQH’s proactive leadership unites our bonded team, along with the encouragement to share new ideas, express our thoughts openly, and work together to incorporate all of the latest advancements in our field.
PQH Group is recognized as the leader in innovative design strategies, advanced technological project approaches, and superior industry knowledge.
Berry Good Farms is the on-campus urban farm where NFSSE students learn sustainable practices for growing fresh veggies, fruit, and herbs. This month, PQH was
PQH has a longstanding volunteer relationship with The Police Athletic League (P.A.L.) of Jacksonville. The PAL mission is to enrich the lives of children by
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
PQH welcomes you to reach out to us with any questions revolving around your soon-to-be development projects. For a consultation, please give us a call.