Accessibility Statement for Awards.com

Last updated: August 1, 2022

Awards.com is committed to ensuring that people with disabilities have a full and equal opportunity to enjoy our goods, services, and facilities. We are engaged in ongoing efforts to implement, maintain, and improve the accessibility of our website to users, regardless of disability or assistive device, in part by implementing the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 to the extent commercially reasonable. If you require assistance in accessing any portion of our website, please contact us.

Please note that our website may include content from third-party providers, as well as links to third-party websites, that may not be fully accessible. Awards.com has no control over such third-party content.

Measures to support accessibility

Awards.com takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of Awards.com:

  • Include accessibility as part of our mission statement.
  • Include accessibility throughout our internal policies.
  • Integrate accessibility into our procurement practices.
  • Appoint an accessibility officer and/or ombudsperson.
  • Provide continual accessibility training for our staff.
  • Assign clear accessibility goals and responsibilities.
  • Employ formal accessibility quality assurance methods.
  • Include people with disabilities in our design personas

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. Awards.com 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 loss of data.

Feedback

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

We try to respond to feedback within 2 Business Days.

Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology

Awards.com is not compatible with:

  • Browsers older than 3 major versions
  • Mobile operating systems older than 5 years

Technical specifications

Accessibility of Awards.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
  • 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 Awards.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 Awards.com:

  1. Proofs: PDF Images of Text because The nature of production requires text to be outlined (turned into an image/illustration) and thus there is often no readable text available. We are constantly investigating and reviewing new technologies to over come this hurdle. Please call, email or live chat us about your proof and a representative will be happy to assist in reviewing and correcting or approving the proof.

Adobe Acrobat PDF Files

PDF format is used to preserve the content and layout of our hard copy publications. Publications in PDF can only be viewed and printed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader®, version 3.0 or higher. You can download and get help using the Acrobat Reader at the Adobe Systems, Inc. site. The downloadable Acrobat Reader software is available at NO CHARGE from Adobe.

People using screen-reading devices generally are unable to read documents directly in PDF format, unless they have an accessibility plug-in installed on their system along with the Adobe Acrobat Reader. This plug-in is available at NO CHARGE from Adobe. Adobe also has online tools that will convert PDF files to HTML on request. To get the plug-in and latest news about Adobe's accessibility tools and services, visit the Access Adobe site.

Assessment Approach

Awards.com continuously assesses the accessibility of Awards.com via Self-Evalution and User Testing.