Accessibility

WEBSITE ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT

Western Winter Sports Representatives Association, Inc. (“WWSRA” or “we”)  firmly believes that the Internet should be available to everyone, and we are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the broadest possible audience. In support or our commitment, we have developed this policy to be transparent about our mission and the efforts we have taken in this regard. If you have any questions related to this policy or our website located at www.wwsra.com (the
website”), please contact us at the e-mail address set forth below.

To support our efforts in meeting and exceeding the standards of the American with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), we have partnered with AccessiBeTM, a third-party service provider that continuously monitors and adjusts our website to provide an inclusive digital environment for our users. AccessiBe does not collect or store personally identifiable information of website users, but they may process anonymous technical data (such as screen size, browser type, or interface preferences, to optimize accessibility features in real time. WWSRA does not use AccessiBe to track users. For more information, you can view AccessiBe’s privacy policy on their website here: https://accessibe.com/privacy-policy.

In order to make WWSRA’s website accessible to all users, 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 provide a comprehensive framework for ensuring digital content is accessible to individuals with a wide array of disabilities, including those who are blind, have visual or motor impairments, cognitive disabilities and more.

Specifically, WWSRA’s website utilizes the following technologies that are meant to make our website as accessible as possible for everyone:

  • Accessibility Interface. An accessibility interface is available to all website users, enabling individuals with specific needs to adjust or customize our website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal preferences. This includes options for adjusting font size, color contract, spacing, and more.

 

  • AccessiBe. We utilize AccessiBe’s AI-based accessibility solution that runs in the background and continuously optimizes its accessibility level. This tool automatically remediates the website’s HTML, adapts its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by visually impaired and blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments. Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various behavioral changes, to ensure visually impaired users visiting with screen-readers can read, comprehend, and enjoy our website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters our site, the user immediately receives a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate our website effectively. These adjustments are compatible with popular screen readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack.

 

  • Keyboard Accessibility. We ensure full keyboard accessibility for users with motor impairments. WWSRA’s websites HTML and JavaScript are enhanced to support intuitive keyboard navigation. Keyboard features include the following:

 

    • Navigate using Tab and Shift +Tab, operate dropdowns with arrow keys, and activate buttons/links with the Enter key.

 

    • Navigate between radio buttons and checkboxes using arrow keys; elect with Enter or Spacebar.

 

    • Access a skip to content menu via Alt +2 or as the first tab element.

 

    • Automatic focus on pop-ups and modal dialogs to prevent focus loss.

 

    • Keyboard shortcuts:

 

      • M= Menus
      • H= Headings
      • F= Forms
      • B= Buttons
      • G= Graphics

 

  • Tailored Profiles. Our website’s accessibility interface offers tailored profiles to meet the needs of different user groups:

 

    • Epilepsy Safe Profile. Disables flashing content and high contrast patterns to help prevent seizures.

 

    • Vision Impaired Profile. Optimizes website visuals for users with visual impairments such as degrading eyesight, tunnel vision, cataracts, glaucoma, and others.

 

    • Cognitive Disability Profile. Enhances focus and comprehension for users with help users with cognitive disabilities such as autism, dyslexia, CVA, and others.

 

    • ADHD Friendly Profile. Reduces distractions and noise to help people with ADHD and neurodevelopmental disorders browse, read, and focus on the essential elements more easily.

 

    • Blind Users Profile. Enables full screen- reader compatibility, ensuring navigation and content access via supportive assisted devices such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader must be installed on the user’s computer to utilize this function.

 

    • Keyboard Navigation Profile. Supports full keyboard operability for individuals with motor impairments.

 

  • Interface Adjustments. Users can further customize their experience through a variety of interface 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 various color contrast profiles such as light, dark, inverted, and monochrome, customize text and background colors.  

 

    • Animations Control. Photosensitive users can instantly disable all animated content including videos, GIFs, and transitions.

 

    • Content Highlighting.Users can choose to emphasize essential elements such as links and titles or highlight focused or hovered elements only.

 

    • Audio Muting.Users may instantly mute audio content.

 

    • Cognitive Support. Integrated dictionary and Wikipedia lookups to help clarify slang, acronyms, and terminology.

 

    • Additional Tools. The website includes additional functions which allow users to change cursor color and size, use a printing mode, enable a virtual keyboard, and more.

 

  • Web-Browsers and Assistive Technologies. WWSRA aims to support as many browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our website users can choose the best fitting tools for them. Our website is tested and optimized to be compatible with the following:

 

    • Browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge

 

    • Screen Readers: JAWS, and NVDA, VoiceOver, Talkback

 

    • Operating Systems: Windows and macOS.

 

Together, these systems cover over 95% of the global user base, ensuring broad compatibility and consistent accessibility for users of our website.

 

Contact

WWSRA is committed to providing an accessible website to all users and we are continually improving our accessibility by adding, updating, improving options and features available on our website, and developing and adopting new technologies. If you encounter any accessibility issues or need assistance navigating our website, we encourage you to contact us at info@wwsra.com.

 

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