Accessibility & Inclusion

This is an accessibility statement from our founder, Mark McGuire.

Summary

This statement outlines the steps that we will take to make this website accessible to everyone with all types of disabilities.

Measures to support accessibility

We will take the following measures to ensure accessibility of our website:

• Include people with disabilities in all phases of engagement
• Include accessibility and inclusion as part of our mission statement
• Include accessibility and inclusion throughout our external and internal policies
• Employ formal and informal accessibility and inclusion quality assurance methods

Compliance guidelines

While we are based in the United States, we will do our best to ensure this website is accessible on a global level.

The following frameworks, guidelines, and laws will guide us as we work on this website.

• United States of America Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
• United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
• World Wide Web Consortium Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

Conformance status

Where applicable, we will update our conformance status to the appropriate standards.

Web Content Accessibility Guideline conformance status

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) provides a set of guidelines that defines the requirements for providing accessible content. These guidelines are known as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines ( WCAG ).

The members of the W3C accessibility committees develop these guidelines with the belief that every person who assume the responsibility of creating content will make a sincere effort to improve accessibility for people with disabilities.

It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA.

My website is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

Technical specifications

The accessibility of our Web site relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

• HTML
• WAI-ARIA
• CSS
• JavaScript

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.

Assessment approach

We will continually assess the accessibility of our website by the following approaches:

• Self-evaluation
• Automated testing. We use the following tools to assist us with automated testing.
  • axe DevTool – A browser-based accessibility checker developed and maintained by Deque Systems.
  • Accessibility Checker. A WordPress plugin developed and maintained by Equalize Digital.
  • IBM Equal Access Accessibility Checker – A browser-based accessibility checker developed and maintained by IBM
  • WAVE. A server-based accessibility checker developed and maintained by WebAIM.
• Collaborative testing

Note that the automated testing tools may detect some technical issues, but they will not be able to detect all accessibility issues. As a result of these limitations, we utilize feedback from people with disabilities to identify any accessibility issues that are not covered by these automated tools.

Date

This statement was created on April 2024 using the W3C Accessibility Statement Generator Tool. We last updated this statement in May 2024.