Accessibility Statement for Melanie Small Design

Melanie Small Design 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.

Melanie Small Design takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of melaniesmalldesign.com:

  • Include accessibility throughout our internal policies.
  • Integrate accessibility into our procurement practices.
  • Employ formal accessibility quality assurance methods.

Conformance Status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) define 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. Melanie Small Design 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 only used for decorative purposes. Re-authentication after a session expires, does not cause a loss of data.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of Melanie Small Design. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on melaniesmalldesign.com:

We try to respond to feedback within 5 business days.

Compatibility With Browsers and Assistive Technology

Melanie Small Design is not compatible with:

  • Browsers older than 3 major versions or mobile operating systems older than 5 years.

Technical Specifications

Accessibility of Melanie Small Design 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 the accessibility of Melanie Small Design, 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 Melanie Small Design:

  1. Archived documents: might not work with current assistive technologies because they use outdated technologies that do not support accessibility. We convert documents to new formats upon request within 5 business days. Please contact info@melaniesmalldesign.com for support.

Assessment Approach

Melanie Small Design assessed the accessibility of melaniesmalldesign.com by the following approaches:

  • External evaluation
  • Self-evaluation

Formal Complaints

We aim to respond to accessibility feedback within 5 business days, and to propose a solution within 10 business days.

This statement was created on 8 April 2022 using the W3C Accessibility Statement Generator Tool.

Last updated: 8/31/22