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Accessibility Statement

Gendelberg Law, PLLC (the “Firm”) strives to ensure that its services are accessible to people with disabilities.  The Firm has invested a significant amount of resources to help ensure that GendelbergLaw.com (the “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.

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (“WCAG”) define requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities.

There are four success criteria principles (Perceivable, Operable, Understandable and Robust):

Perceivable: According to this standard, all website information and user interface components should be presented so users can easily perceive it.  This includes giving alt text or text alternatives for non-text content, creating content presentable in different ways, like through audio files for those with vision problems, and providing captions and other multimedia alternatives;

Operable: According to this standard, users should be able to operate interface components and navigate the website easily.  For example, the interface shouldn’t require any actions that users with disabilities will find difficult to perform.  This includes helping users find and navigate content, giving users sufficient time to read and fill content like online forms, and letting users navigate and use the website using the keyboard;

Understandable: Users should be able to easily understand all the information and operation of the user interface.  This is achieved by ensuring all the website text is readable, understandable, and operable in predictable manners and should also help users avoid and correct mistakes where necessary;

Robust: Website content should be so robust that the content can be reliably interpreted using various user agents like auxiliary aids, automated tools, and other assistive technology.  This is possible by maximizing compatibility with existing and future user tools.

There are three levels of conformance (A, AA and AAA):

Level A, which is a bare minimum level of accessibility;

Level AA, which is the target level of accessibility for most commercial websites;

Level AAA, which are the highest standards that exceed all accessibility requirements, and expands on levels A and AA.

The Firm continues its efforts to constantly improve the accessibility of its Website and services in the belief that it is its collective moral obligation to allow seamless, accessible and unhindered use also for those of us with disabilities.  Despite the Firms efforts to make all pages and content on the Website 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.

The Firm strives to follow the compliance requirements established by the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”):

  • Reading law documents;
  • Having an ‘alt’ tag for all media files and maps;
  • Including descriptive HTML tags in online forms;
  • Using descriptive anchor text in hyperlinks;
  • Including ‘skip navigation’ links on all web pages;
  • Using proper heading tags in web content;
  • Including subtitles, audio descriptions, and transcripts in videos;
  • Using accessible fonts;
  • Easily locatable contact information on all web pages;
  • Keyboard navigation accessibility;
  • Written captions for all audio files;
  • Testing website accessibility based on WCAG guidelines;

The Firm makes available the UserWay Website Accessbility Widget that is powered by a dedicated accessibility server.  This allows the Firm to improve its compliance with the WCAG.  The  UserWay accessibility menu can be enabled by clicking the accessibility menu icon that appears on the corner of the Firms Website.  After triggering the accessibility menu, please wait a moment for the accessibility menu to load in its entirety.

Please let us know if you encounter further accessibility barriers on our website so that we can help you and others who may be experiencing the same.