Accessibility Statement

Arcas are committed to providing a fully accessible website experience for all users of all abilities, including those who rely on assistive technologies like screen readers, screen enlargement software, and alternative keyboard input devices to navigate the web.

Ongoing Efforts to Ensure Accessibility

We follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.1 as our guiding principle for determining accessibility. These are internationally agreed-upon standards that cover a wide range of recommendations and best practices for making content useable. As we add new pages and functionality to our website, all designs, code, and content entry practices are checked against these standards.

Website accessibility is an ongoing process. We continually test content and features for WCAG 2.1 Level AA compliance and remediate any issues to ensure we meet or exceed the standards. Testing of our website is performed by our team members using industry-standard tools such as the Accessibility Checker WordPress Plugin, color contrast analyzers, keyboard-only navigation techniques, and Flesch-Kincaid readability tests.

Where We’re Improving

In our efforts to bring our website up to standard, we are targeting the following areas:

• Ensuring all images have suitable ALT tags
• Ensure suitable levels of contrast across all elements
• Only opening links in new tabs/windows when absolutely necessary and using proper aria labelling if so
• Continuing to work on site forms to improve overall accessibility and keyboard navigation
• Adapting as much content as possible in order to prepare for a more to a more flexible framework which will give us better control over applying remediations to any accessibility issues which arise
• Working toward either removing problematic items such as sliders or replacing them with fully-accessible alternatives
• Ensuring proper semantic usage of headings, heading order, underlines and more
• Removal of ambiguous link text to be more specific and descriptive (ie avoid using “here” as link text)
• Working on reducing the amount of content stored in external PDFs as well as working on improving accessibility of those PDFs

This is part of our broader effort to make everyone’s experience at our website a welcoming and enjoyable one. Please note that while we make every effort to provide information accessible for all users, we cannot guarantee the accessibility of third party websites to which we may link.

Accessibility Support Contact

We welcome comments, questions, and feedback on our website. If you are using assistive technologies and are having difficulty using our website or notice any issues, please contact us and we will do our upmost to get them resolved.