Web Accessibility

Accessibility Statement 

Updated: August, 2020

General
Occupational Therapy Services Group strives to ensure that its services are accessible to people with a variety of medical impairments and/or disabilities. This Website 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.

Accessibility 
Occupational Therapy Services Group makes available the UserWay Website Accessibility Widget that is powered by a dedicated accessibility server. The software allows this Website to improve its compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1).

Enabling the Accessibility Menu
The Website accessibility menu can be enabled by clicking the accessibility menu icon that appears on the bottom right corner of the Website page. After triggering the accessibility menu, please wait a moment for the accessibility menu to load in its entirety.

Disclaimer
Occupational Therapy Services Group 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 this Website with an accessibility scanner and to identify and fix every possible accessibility barrier on our site. Despite our efforts to make all pages and content on this 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.

Here For You
If you are experiencing difficulty with any content on this Website, or if you require assistance with any part of our Website, please contact us during normal business hours and we will be happy to assist.

Suggestions & Feedback
If you wish to report an accessibility issue, have any questions, or need assistance, please contact us or provide feedback to us through this Website. We are continually trying to improve our services and would like to know if your experience was less than optimal, or if you have ideas to improve your experience.

What Features Do We Offer?​

1. Keyboard Nav - Toggling this setting adds a keyboard focus indicator of a thick red dashed line round elements on the page. Toggling again turns it off. Like signposts, focus indicators are helpful for showing users navigating by the keyboard where they are at on a web page.
2. Cursor - There are two options here, both of which could help users with sight problems who are still able to use a mouse. Toggling the button once shows a big cursor. Toggling the button a second time shows a reading guide, a black line with yellow borders to help readers keep their place on the page. This is an electronic version of a physical reading guide to assist with reading books and documents. Toggling a third time turns the cursor setting off.
3. Contrast + - There are 3 contrast settings. 1) Invert colours 2) Dark contrast 3) Light contrast. A fourth press of the button reverts the page to its default contrast. 
4. Bigger Text - This option toggles the text on the page to be larger. The font size can be increased up to four times bigger.
5. Desaturate - Desaturate removes colours and renders the web page in greyscale.
6. Highlight Links - Toggling this button highlights all links in high contrast – underlined, yellow on a black background.
7. Legible Fonts - This option changes all the fonts on the page to the Arial font, overriding the default page fonts. It doesn’t change the font size, weight or style, e.g. bold or italic. If for any reason Arial is unavailable, the page defaults to a serif font.
8. Read Page - This option starts reading the page from the top using an American female voice. Using the arrow keys skips to the next element on the page. When text is read, keyboard nav mode is active and the text is outlined. It’s also shown with a yellow background. Headings are read with “Header” following. Links have “link” afterwards. This option should not be used by anyone who uses a screen reader to browse the Web, as both will run simultaneously, causing a conflict.
9. Alternative Text - we have added alt text to describe the appearance and function of an images on the pages.