Accessibility Statement

Accessibility Statement

Updated: June 2020

Committed to Easy Access for Everyone

www.xtremepolishingsystems.com strives to ensure that its services are accessible to people with disabilities. www.xtremepolishingsystems.com has invested a significant amount of resources to help ensure that its website is made easier to use and more accessible for people with disabilities, with the strong belief that every person has the right to live with dignity, equality, comfort and independence.

As a part of our commitment to accessibility, we ensure that our website is compatible with the following:

  • Recent versions of popular screen readers
  • Operating system screen magnifiers
  • Speech recognition software
  • Operating system speech packages

During the development phase of our site, we follow Principles of Accessible Design, trying to assist in improving accessibility of our website for users with disabilities by doing the following:

  • Retaining the ability to adjust the font size
  • Maintaining colour/contrast ratios for text. Providing keyboard accessible navigation
  • Providing skip to content links at the top of the page
  • We also monitor the accessibility of xtremepolishingsystems.com through the internally maintained tool UserWay.org

Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0

XtremePolishingSystems.com site will adhere to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0). These guidelines outline four main principles that state that sites should be the following:

  • Perceivable - Information and user interface components must be presentable to users in ways they can perceive
  • Operable - User interface components and navigation must be operable
  • Understandable - Information and the operation of user interface must be understandable
  • Robust - Content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted reliably by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies
  • Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT). As part of our commitment to accessibility, we provide a VPAT document, which evaluates the accessibility of a product according to the Section 508 Standards

Enabling the Accessibility Menu

The www.xtremepolishingsystems.com accessibility menu can be enabled by clicking the accessibility menu icon that appears on the corner of the page. After triggering the accessibility menu, please wait a moment for the accessibility menu to load in its entirety.

Disclaimer

www.xtremepolishingsystems.com continues its efforts to constantly improve the accessibility of its site and services in the belief that it is our collective moral obligation to allow seamless, accessible and unhindered use also for those of us with disabilities. In an ongoing effort to continually improve and remediate accessibility issues, we also regularly scan www.xtremepolishingsystems.com with Accessibility Scanner to identify and fix every possible accessibility barrier on our site. Despite our efforts to make all pages and content on www.xtremepolishingsystems.com fully accessible, some content may not have yet been fully adapted to the strictest accessibility standards. This may be a result of not having found or identified the most appropriate technological solution.

Here For You

The AbilityNet website provides guidance to make your computer more accessible by offering help with seeing the screen, using your keyboard and mouse, hearing sounds, and with reading and spelling. The BBC My web, My way website also provides accessibility help, enabling computer users to make the most of the internet whatever their ability or disability.

If you are experiencing difficulty with any content on www.xtremepolishingsystems.com or require assistance with any part of our site, please contact us during normal business hours as detailed below and we will be happy to assist.

Contact Us

If you would like to request accessibility-related assistance, report any accessibility problems, or request any information in accessible alternative formats, please contact us so we can resolve the issue immediately and assist you with any issues you may have. It is recommended that you read the WAI’s Contacting Organisations about Inaccessible Websites, and provide the information advised in your request. If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact Xtreme Polishing Systems.