Working with OKTAN Agency from the United States

Working across time zones

Paris is usually six hours ahead of New York and nine hours ahead of Los Angeles. We adapt to your schedule: calls are set at times that suit your team, on the East Coast as on the West Coast, agreed in advance, and the rest of the work moves forward in writing.

The United States and Europe do not change their clocks on the same dates. For a few weeks in March, and again between late October and early November, the gap is one hour shorter than usual.

In practice, the time difference often works in your favor: a question sent at the end of your day is answered while you sleep, and a preview updated during the day is often ready when you start work. You can book a free 30-minute discovery call from our contact page.

The US rules your website has to take into account

There is no single federal privacy law for websites in the United States, and no federal regulation that sets a technical accessibility standard for private businesses. Two areas matter most for a business website.

• Accessibility: Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) covers businesses open to the public, and the Department of Justice considers that their websites are covered. It sets no technical standard for them, but WCAG 2.1 level AA is the standard the Department adopted in 2024 for state and local governments, and the usual reference in practice. Individuals can also sue businesses over inaccessible websites, and such claims are brought regularly. Our page on ADA website accessibility explains the situation.

• Privacy: several states have their own consumer privacy laws. The best known is the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), enforced by the California Privacy Protection Agency. It applies to for-profit businesses that meet one of its thresholds: an annual gross revenue above a set amount, buying, selling or sharing the personal information of 100,000 or more California residents or households, or deriving half or more of their revenue from selling or sharing it. Businesses it covers must, among other things, honor opt-out preference signals such as Global Privacy Control.

If you also sell to customers in the European Union, the GDPR and the European Accessibility Act can apply to your website too.

We deliver the technical implementation: accessible templates and forms, a consent or opt-out tool configured for the trackers you actually use, a privacy notice structured around what your site really does. We do not give legal advice: whether a law applies to your business, and what your legal texts say, is for you and your attorney.

What we do not promise

We do not guarantee a search ranking, a sales figure, legal compliance, or protection from lawsuits. A website built with care makes accessibility and privacy much easier to achieve and to demonstrate, but no provider can promise that a business will never receive a demand letter.

If, after a first call, we think a US-based provider would serve you better, for instance because your project needs someone on site every week or constant availability during your afternoon, we will tell you.