Accessibility: Understanding Accessibility

Website accessibility refers to the practice of formatting the site to ensure everyone, able-bodied or disabled, can equally access, navigate and interact with the site's content.

Our site may have some visitors who require different accommodations in order to navigate or use our site:

• Visual accommodations: People who experience low vision or loss of vision may rely on assistive technologies (like screen readers) or visual formatting (like increased text size, higher color contrasts, etc.) to successfully navigate through our site.

• Limited motor-function accommodations: People whose motor function range limits the use of a mouse or touchpad, may instead use a keyboard coupled with visual indicators to navigate through a site.

• Auditory accommodations: People who experience any degree of hearing loss may rely on the availability of audio captions or transcripts on the site.

• Cognitive accommodations: People affected by learning or cognitive disabilities (dyslexia, ADHD, autism, etc.) rely on content structure and layout consistency to navigate successfully through the site.

• Neurological accommodations: People with sensory sensitivities (such as seizure disorders) may rely on reduced motion of animated elements, or may benefit from the option to control what triggers a movement or an animation.

• Speech accommodations: People who are affected by speech disabilities may require alternate contact methods, such as providing contact forms, chat, or email options, rather than just providing a phone number.

It is therefore good web practice to ensure that all of our visitors can navigate and enjoy our site equally.