Accessibility Statement

Effective Date: May 22, 2024

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India Stone Creative is dedicated to ensuring that our website is accessible to everyone, including individuals with disabilities. We are constantly working to enhance the user experience for all visitors and to adhere to relevant accessibility standards.

1. 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. India Stone Creative is conformant with WCAG 2.1 Level AA.

2. Accessibility Profiles Supported

Epilepsy Safe Profile: This profile allows individuals with epilepsy to use our site safely by removing flashing or blinking animations and avoiding color combinations that could trigger seizures.

Vision Impaired Profile: This profile adjusts our site to be accessible for individuals with various visual impairments, including deteriorating eyesight, tunnel vision, cataracts, glaucoma, and others.

Cognitive Disability Profile: This profile provides assistive features to help users with cognitive disabilities, such as autism, dyslexia, and cerebrovascular accident (CVA), focus on essential elements more easily.

ADHD Friendly Profile: This profile minimizes distractions and visual noise to help individuals with ADHD and neurodevelopmental disorders navigate, read, and focus on essential content more effectively.

Blind Users Profile (Screen-readers): This profile makes our site compatible with screen readers like JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack, allowing blind users to access site content using these technologies.

Keyboard Navigation Profile (Motor-Impaired): This profile enables users with motor impairments to navigate our site using keyboard shortcuts. Users can use the Tab, Shift+Tab, and Enter keys, as well as shortcuts like "M" for menus, "H" for headings, "F" for forms, "B" for buttons, and "G" for graphics.

3. Additional UI, Design, and Readability Adjustments

Font Adjustments: Users can modify the font size, family, spacing, alignment, and line height to improve readability.

Color Adjustments: Users can choose from various color contrast profiles, including light, dark, inverted, and monochrome. Additionally, they can swap color schemes for titles, texts, and backgrounds with multiple coloring options.

Animations: Users with epilepsy can stop all running animations with a single click. This includes videos, GIFs, and CSS transitions.

Content Highlighting: Users can highlight essential elements like links and titles or focus only on elements that are hovered over or in focus.

Audio Muting: Users with hearing devices can mute the entire website to avoid issues caused by automatic audio playback.

Cognitive Assistance: We offer a search engine linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary, enabling users with cognitive disorders to understand the meanings of phrases, abbreviations, slang, and more.

Additional Functions: Users can customize the cursor color and size, enable a printing mode, use a virtual keyboard, and access various other functions to enhance their browsing experience.

4. Assistive Technology and Browser Compatibility

We strive to support a wide range of browsers and assistive technologies so that our users can choose the tools that best fit their needs. Our site supports major systems that cover the majority of the user market, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera, and Microsoft Edge, as well as screen readers like JAWS and NVDA, for both Windows and Mac users.

5. Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of India Stone Creative. If you encounter any barriers or have suggestions, please contact us:

India Stone Creative, Inc.
Email: info@indiastonecreative.com
Address: P.O. Box 85533 Toronto, Ontario M5N 0A2 Canada
Phone: +1 647-945-6622

We aim to respond to accessibility feedback within 5 business days.

6. Measures to Support Accessibility

India Stone Creative is committed to ensuring accessibility by:

  • Integrating accessibility into our web design and development processes.
  • Regularly testing our site for accessibility issues and addressing them promptly.
  • Providing ongoing training for our staff on web accessibility best practices.

7. Limitations and Alternatives

Despite our best efforts, some content or functionality may not be fully accessible. If you encounter any issues, please contact us, and we will work to provide an alternative means of accessing the information or service.

8. Assessment Approach

India Stone Creative evaluates the accessibility of our site through:

  • Regular internal reviews and audits.
  • Third-party evaluations by external experts to ensure compliance.

9. Ongoing Commitment

We are committed to making our site accessible to all users and continually improving our efforts. We regularly review and update our practices to meet evolving standards and user needs.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions or need assistance with accessibility on our site, please contact us:

India Stone Creative, Inc.
Email: info@indiastonecreative.com
Address: P.O. Box 85533 Toronto, Ontario M5N 0A2 Canada
Phone: +1 647-945-6622