Accessibility Statement
Compliance status
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 broadest possible audience, regardless of 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 outline the steps to make web content accessible to individuals with diverse disabilities. Complying with these guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to individuals with visual impairments, motor impairments, cognitive disabilities, and other disabilities.
This website utilizes various technologies designed to ensure accessibility at all times. We use 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, constantly optimizing its accessibility level. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapting its functionality and behavior for screen readers used by blind users and keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you wish to contact the website’s owner, please use the following email: sales@riverranchonthebrazos.com
Screen-reader and keyboard navigation
Our website implements the ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various behavioral changes, to ensure that blind users visiting with screen readers can read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen reader enters your site, they are immediately prompted to enter the Screen-Reader Profile, allowing them to browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most essential screen-reader requirements:
- Screen-reader optimization: We run a process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, ensuring 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 and descriptions for actionable icons (such as social media icons, search icons, and cart icons); validation guidance for form inputs; and element roles, including buttons, menus, modal dialogues (pop-ups), and others.
- Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images. It provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (Alternative Text) tag for images that lack a description. It will also extract texts 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 receive automatic announcements to enable Screen-reader mode as soon as they enter the website.
- These adjustments are compatible with popular screen readers, including JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack.
- 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 content-skip menus available at any time by clicking Alt+2, or as the first element 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, preventing the focus from drifting outside.
- Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
Disability profiles are supported on our website.
- Epilepsy Safe Profile: this profile enables people with epilepsy to safely use the website by eliminating the risk of seizures resulting from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.
- Vision Impaired Profile: This profile adjusts the website to make it accessible to the majority of visual impairments, including Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
- Cognitive Disability Profile: This profile offers various assistive features to help users with cognitive disabilities, such as Autism, Dyslexia, CVA, and others, focus more easily on the essential elements.
- ADHD-Friendly Profile: This profile significantly reduces distractions and noise to help individuals with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental disorders browse, read, and focus on the essential elements more easily.
- Blind Users Profile (Screen Readers): This profile optimizes the website for compatibility with screen readers, including 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): This profile enables individuals with motor impairments to operate the website using the Tab, Shift+Tab, and Enter keys on the keyboard. Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
Additional UI, design, and readability adjustments
- Font adjustments
- Users can increase and decrease its size, change its family (type), adjust the spacing, alignment, line height, and more.
- Color adjustments
- Users can select from various color contrast profiles, including light, dark, inverted, and monochrome. Additionally, users can swap color schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds with over seven different coloring options.
- Animations
- Epileptic users can stop all running animations with the click of a button. Animations controlled by the interface include videos, GIFs, and CSS flashing transitions.
- Content highlighting
- Users can choose to emphasize essential elements such as links and titles. They can also choose to highlight focused or hovered elements only.
- Audio muting
- Users with hearing devices may experience headaches or other issues due to automatic audio playing. This option allows users to instantly mute the entire website.
- Cognitive disorders
- We utilize a search engine linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary, enabling individuals with cognitive disorders to decipher the meanings of phrases, acronyms, slang, and other terms.
- Additional functions
- We allow users to change cursor color and size, use a printing mode, enable a virtual keyboard, and perform many other functions.
Assistive technology and browser compatibility
We aim to support as many 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 diligently to support all major systems, which comprise over 95% of the user market share, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera, Microsoft Edge, JAWS, and NVDA (screen readers), for both Windows and macOS users.
Notes, comments, and feedback
Despite our best efforts to enable anyone 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 lack an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we continually improve our accessibility by adding, updating, and enhancing its options and features, as well as developing and adopting new technologies. All this is intended to achieve the optimal level of accessibility through technological advancements. If you wish to contact the website’s owner, please use the following email: sales@riverranchonthebrazos.com
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