Website Accessibility Statement

Compliance status

We believe the internet should be available and accessible to everyone and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the broadest possible audience, regardless of ability. To support this commitment, we aim to follow the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Following these guidelines helps ensure the website is accessible to blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairments, cognitive disabilities, and more.

This website uses technologies intended to keep it as accessible as possible at all times. We provide an accessibility interface that allows people with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s user interface and tailor it to their needs. Additionally, an AI-based application runs in the background to optimize accessibility on an ongoing basis. This application remediates the website’s HTML and adapts functionality and behavior for screen readers used by blind users and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.

If you wish to contact the website owner, please use the following email: info@crestlinecoach.com

Screen-reader and keyboard navigation

Our website implements ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) techniques, alongside various behavioral changes, to help blind users visiting with screen readers read, comprehend, and use the website’s functions. When a user with a screen reader enters the site, they receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate the site effectively.

• Screen-reader optimization: We run a process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom to support ongoing compliance even when the website is updated. In this process, we provide screen readers with meaningful data using ARIA attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (such as social media, search, and cart icons); validation guidance for form inputs; and element roles such as buttons, menus, and modal dialogs. The background process also scans all website images and provides accurate, meaningful descriptions as alternate text for images that are not described. It can extract text embedded within images using optical character recognition (OCR). To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users can press Alt+1. Screen-reader users also receive automatic announcements to turn Screen-Reader Mode on as soon as they enter the website. These adjustments are compatible with popular screen readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack.
  
  
• Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process adjusts the website’s HTML and adds behaviors with JavaScript to make the website operable by keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate using Tab and Shift+Tab, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links with Enter, navigate between radio and checkbox elements with the arrow keys, and select them with Spacebar or Enter. Keyboard users can access content-skip menus at any time by pressing Alt+2, or as the first element while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving keyboard focus to them as soon as they appear and preventing focus from leaving the popup. Users may also use shortcuts such as M (menus), H (headings), F (forms), B (buttons), and G (graphics) to jump to specific elements.

Disability profiles supported on our website

• Epilepsy Safe Profile: Enables people with epilepsy to use the website more safely by eliminating the risk of seizures resulting from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.
• Vision Impaired Profile: Adjusts the website to be accessible to many visual impairments such as degrading eyesight, tunnel vision, cataracts, glaucoma, and others.
• Cognitive Disability Profile: Provides assistive features to help users with cognitive disabilities such as autism, dyslexia, CVA, and others focus more easily on essential elements.
• ADHD Friendly Profile: Reduces distractions and visual noise to help people with ADHD and neurodevelopmental disorders browse, read, and focus on essential elements.
• Blind Users Profile (Screen Readers): Adjusts the website to be compatible with screen readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen reader is installed on the blind user’s computer, and this site is compatible with it.
• Keyboard Navigation Profile (Motor Impaired): Enables motor-impaired users to operate the website using the keyboard with Tab, Shift+Tab, and Enter, plus shortcuts such as M (menus), H (headings), F (forms), B (buttons), and G (graphics).

Additional UI, design, and readability adjustments

• Font adjustments: Users can increase and decrease font size, change the typeface, and adjust spacing, alignment, and line height.
• Color adjustments: Users can select various contrast profiles such as light, dark, inverted, and monochrome, and swap color schemes of titles, text, and backgrounds with multiple options.
• Animations: Users sensitive to motion can stop running animations with a click. Animations controlled by the interface include videos, GIFs, and CSS transitions.
• Content highlighting: Users can emphasize essential elements such as links and titles, or highlight only focused or hovered elements.
• Audio muting: Users with hearing devices can instantly mute the entire website to avoid issues caused by automatically playing audio.
• Cognitive tools: A search feature linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary helps users decipher meanings of phrases, initials, and slang.
• Additional functions: Users can change cursor color and size, use a printing mode, enable a virtual keyboard, and access other functions.

Assistive technology and browser compatibility

We aim to support as many browsers and assistive technologies as possible so users can choose the tools that work best for them. We support major systems that together comprise over 95% of user market share, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera, Microsoft Edge, and screen readers such as JAWS and NVDA, for both Windows and Mac users.

Notes, comments, and feedback

Despite our best efforts to allow anyone to adjust the website to their needs, some pages or sections may not yet be fully accessible, may be in the process of becoming accessible, or may lack an adequate technological solution. We are continually improving accessibility, adding and updating options and features, and developing or adopting new technologies to reach the optimal level of accessibility as technology advances. If you wish to contact the website owner, please use the following email: info@crestlinecoach.com