Accessibility

Overview

Hawkins New York is committed to making our Website's content accessible and user-friendly for our visitors, including those with disabilities and regardless of technology or ability.

This Website endeavors to comply with best practices and standards as defined by Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act and level AA of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1. These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for people with disabilities. Conformance with these guidelines will help make the web more user-friendly for all people.

All site pages are being run through an accessibility validation product, currently WAVE, to monitor compliance to WCAG guidelines.

We will continue to test the site to make sure that all content on the site is accessible to all visitors.

We will also continue to work to improve the accessibility standards of our Website.

Accessibility References

W3C accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.

Accessibility Software

NVDA, a free screen reader for Windows

Firefox, a web browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, text color overrides, user stylesheets, image toggling. A free downloadable version is available. Compatible with Windows, Mac and several other operating systems.

Questions?

If you have specific questions or concerns about the accessibility of our Website, or need assistance utilizing our Website or purchasing our products, please contact us via email at info@hawkinsnewyork.com. We appreciate your feedback as we work to accommodate our customers’ needs and the overall accessibility of our site.