Accessibility Statement

Alaska Glacial Essentials 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

Alaska Glacial Essentials takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of our website:

• Include accessibility as part of our mission statement
• Provide accessibility training for our staff
• Employ formal accessibility quality assurance methods
• Monitor, maintain and update existing and new content

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. Alaska Glacial Essentials 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. Images of text are supported by alternative text, making information available for assistive technologies.

FEEDBACK

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of Alaska Glacial Essentials website. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on our website:

• Phone: 907-428-8004
• E-mail: info@alaskaglacial.com

    We try to respond to feedback within 2-3 business days.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Accessibility of Alaska Glacial Essentials website 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 Alaska Glacial Essentials website, there may be some limitations. Please contact us if you observe any issues with accessibility and/or usability of our website.

ABOUT THE WEB CONTENT ACCESSIBILITY GUIDELINES 2.0 AND 2.1

On 11 December 2008, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) as a W3C recommendation.

These guidelines are an international standard that:

• Define how to make web sites more accessible to people with a range disabilities.
• Consists of 12 guidelines supplemented by 61 success criteria — testable standards that web sites should meet. These are arranged in three levels with level A (the lowest), being the most fundamental and essential.

The more success criteria a site meets, the more accessible it is likely to be. However, it is still possible that people with some types, degrees or combinations of disabilities might still have problems using the site.

WCAG 2.1 was introduced to address the dynamically growing use of mobile devices, providing 17 additional success criteria to address:

• mobile accessibility
• people with low vision
• people with cognitive and learning disabilities

FORMAL COMPLAINTS

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of Alaska Glacial Essentials website. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on this website:

Phone: 907-428-8004

E-mail:info@alaskaglacial.com

 We try to respond to feedback within 2-3 business days.

REFERENCES

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
• What’s New in WCAG 2.1?

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