Accessibility Statement

The Hatcher Group is committed to making our website as accessible as possible to everyone, including those with visual, hearing, cognitive, and motor impairments. We are constantly working to make improvements. As part of our commitment to accessibility, we ensure that our website is compatible with:

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

We incorporate accessibility best practices by following the principles of universal design. This ensures the site is flexible and adaptable to different users’ needs or preferences and is accessible through a variety of technologies, including mobile devices or assistive technologies.

During the development phase we have followed WebAIM’s Principles of Accessible Design and have attempted to improve accessibility for users with disabilities by:

• Providing the ability to adjust the font size.
• Maintaining color/contrast ratios for text.
• Providing keyboard-accessible navigation
• Providing skip-to-content links at the top of the page
• Exposing information to the accessibility API through the use of ARIA attributes

We also monitor the accessibility of thehatchergroup.com through an internally maintained tool, PowerMapper.

Wherever possible, The Hatcher Group site will adhere to level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1. These guidelines outline four main principles that state that sites should be:

• 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.

If you would like to request accessibility-related assistance, report accessibility problems, or obtain information in accessible alternative formats please use contact us. To help us assist you with any issues you have with our website, please visit the Web Accessibility Initiative’s Contacting Organizations about Inaccessible Websites page, and include the recommended information in your request.