Commitment to Accessibility
At The Acting Academy, we are committed to ensuring that our website is accessible to everyone, including individuals with disabilities. We believe that all users should have equal access to our online content and services, regardless of their abilities or the technology they use.
We are continuously working to improve the accessibility of our website to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA. These guidelines outline best practices for making web content more accessible to people with a wide range of disabilities, including visual, auditory, cognitive, motor, and speech impairments.
Our efforts to improve accessibility are ongoing and are guided by the following principles:
- Perceivable: Information and user interface components must be presentable to users in ways they can perceive. This means providing text alternatives for non-text content, offering captions and other alternatives for audio and video content, and ensuring that content is adaptable and distinguishable.
- Operable: User interface components and navigation must be operable. This includes making sure that all functionality is available from a keyboard, providing sufficient time for users to read and use content, and avoiding content that causes seizures.
- Understandable: Information and the operation of the user interface must be understandable. This involves making text readable and understandable, ensuring that content appears and operates in predictable ways, and helping users avoid and correct mistakes.
- Robust: Content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted reliably by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies. This means using standard technologies and ensuring that content is compatible with current and future user agents.
We regularly review our website and content to identify and address accessibility issues. We also conduct user testing with individuals with disabilities to gather feedback and ensure that our website meets their needs.
Assistive Technologies
We strive to ensure that our website is compatible with a variety of assistive technologies, including:
- Screen Readers: We have designed our website to work effectively with screen readers such as JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver. We provide alternative text for images, use proper heading structures, and ensure that form fields are properly labeled to enhance the screen reader experience.
- Keyboard Navigation: Our website can be navigated entirely using a keyboard. We have implemented skip links to allow users to bypass repetitive content, and we ensure that focus is visible and predictable.
- Speech Recognition Software: Our website is designed to be compatible with speech recognition software such as Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Users can navigate and interact with our website using voice commands.
- Magnification Software: We have designed our website to be responsive and adaptable to different screen sizes and resolutions. Users can also use browser zoom features or magnification software to increase the size of text and images.
- Braille Displays: We strive to ensure that our website content is compatible with Braille displays, allowing users who are blind or visually impaired to access our content in Braille format.
Specific accessibility features we have implemented include:
- Providing alternative text descriptions for all images and non-text content.
- Using semantic HTML to structure our content, making it easier for assistive technologies to understand.
- Ensuring sufficient color contrast between text and background colors.
- Making sure that all form fields are properly labeled and accessible to screen readers.
- Providing captions and transcripts for all video and audio content.
- Designing our website to be responsive and adaptable to different screen sizes and resolutions.
- Implementing keyboard navigation and skip links to improve usability for keyboard users.
- Regularly testing our website with assistive technologies to identify and address accessibility issues.
We are committed to staying up-to-date with the latest accessibility standards and technologies. We will continue to monitor and improve the accessibility of our website to ensure that it meets the needs of all users.
Feedback
We value your feedback on the accessibility of our website. If you encounter any accessibility barriers or have suggestions for improvement, please contact us using the information below:
Email: Contact Us form
Phone: (555) 123-4567
We will make every effort to respond to your feedback in a timely manner and to address any accessibility issues you report.
The Acting Academy is dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible experience for all users. We appreciate your support in helping us achieve this goal.
This accessibility statement was last updated on October 26, 2023.