Accessibility Statement

Last updated October 31, 2021

Sheep’s Pearl is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone, and applying the relevant accessibility standards.

Measures to support accessibility

Sheep’s Pearl takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of sheepspearl.com:

  • Appoint an accessibility officer.
  • Provide continual accessibility training for our staff.
  • Assign clear accessibility goals and responsibilities.
  • Employ formal accessibility quality assurance methods.
  • Include accessibility as part of website development.
  • Include accessibility as part of website maintenance.
  • Include accessibility as part of content creation.
  • Integrate accessibility into website plugins and 3rd-party embedded features.
  • Integrate accessibility into web-based communications, such as email.

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. Sheep’s Pearl is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

Additional accessibility considerations

Although our goal is WCAG 2.1 Level AA conformance, we have also applied some Level AAA Success Criteria where already built into our website framework and platform, or where feasible to implement.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of sheepspearl.com. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on sheepspearl.com:

We try to respond to feedback within 2 business days.

Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology

sheepspearl.com is designed to be compatible with the following assistive technologies:

  • The latest version of Safari
  • The latest version of Chrome
  • The latest version of Firefox
  • The latest version of Microsoft Edge
  • Screen Readers, such as Narrator on Microsoft Windows 10
  • Motor-based Assistive Technology, such as Manual Keyboard Only Navigation
  • Screen Magnification, High Contract, Etc. and other Assistive Software Features, such as Ease of Access Center on Microsoft Windows 10

Technical specifications

Accessibility of sheepspearl.com relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

  • HTML
  • WAI-ARIA
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.

Limitations and alternatives

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of sheepspearl.com , there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Known limitations for sheepspearl.com:

  1. Comments from users: Uploaded images by users into comment sections may not have text alternatives. because We cannot ensure the quality of contributions by users to comment sections on a live basis due to extremely limited employee resources.. We monitor user comments and typically repair issues within 2 business days.. Please use the contact us webpage if you encounter an issue..
  2. Links on our website to 3rd-party websites: 3rd-party websites which are not accessible. because We cannot ensure the quality of 3rd-party websites.. When possible we try to link to only quality 3rd-party websites.. Please use the contact us webpage if you encounter an issue..
  3. Links too or embedded 3rd-party content on our website: 3rd-party content, such as PDFs, videos, etc. which are not accessible. because We cannot ensure the quality of 3rd-party content.. When possible we try to link to or include only quality 3rd-party content.. Please use the contact us webpage if you encounter an issue..

Assessment approach

Sheep’s Pearl assessed the accessibility of sheepspearl.com by the following approaches:

  • Self-evaluation: the content was evaluated by your own organization or the developer of the content
  • External evaluation: the content was evaluated by an external entity not involved in the design and development process
  • Manual functional accessibility testing: using Narrator, keyboard navigation, keyboard tab stops, user experience testing, code inspection, accessibility insights for web manual assessment
  • Semi to fully automated content and website code testing: using code validation scanners, deque axe chrome browser extension, accessibility insights for web chrome browser extension fast pass checker, lighthouse chrome browser extension

Formal complaints

We aim to respond to accessibility feedback within 2 business days, and to propose a solution within 10 business days.

Formal approval of this accessibility statement

This Accessibility Statement is approved by:

Sheep’s Pearl
Owner and website developer

This accessibility statement was created using the W3C Accessibility Statement Generator Tool.