The Stalking Prevention, Awareness, & Resource Center (SPARC), a Project of AEquitas, is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone, and applying relevant accessibility standards. We welcome your feedback on the accessibility SPARC’s website, resources, training, and technical assistance. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers.

Measures To Support Accessibility

SPARC takes the following measures to support accessibility:

  • Includes accessibility throughout our internal policies.
  • Appoints an accessibility officer and/or ombudsperson.
  • Provides continual accessibility training for our staff.
  • Assigns clear accessibility targets and responsibilities.
  • Employs formal accessibility quality assurance methods.
  • Includes people with disabilities in our design personas.

Conformance Status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines 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. SPARC is fully conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Fully conformant means that the content fully conforms to the accessibility standard without any exceptions.

Additional Accessibility Considerations

Although our goal is WCAG 2.1 Level AA conformance, we have also implemented the AccessiBe Accessibility Toolbar on every page to provide additional help in accessing our content.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility SPARC’s website, resources, training, and technical assistance. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers:

We try to respond to feedback within 2 business days.

Compatibility With Browsers And Assistive Technology

The SPARC website is designed to be compatible with the following assistive technologies:

  • Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge browsers with assistive technology on either Mac or PC.

The SPARC website is not compatible with:

  • Browsers older than 3 major versions.
  • Mobile operating systems older than 2 years.

Technical Specifications

The accessibility of SPARC relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

  • HTML
  • WAI-ARIA
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.

Assessment Approach

SPARC has assessed the accessibility of our website by the following approaches:

  • Self-evaluation
  • Chrome’s Lighthouse Accessibility report (scored 97)
  • WP ADA Compliance Check (scored 98)
  • WAVE (0 errors found)

Formal Approval Of This Accessibility Statement

This Accessibility Statement is approved by:

Jennifer Landhuis
Director, SPARC

Formal Complaints

Contact us if you are having any issues accessing our content or navigating the site. We want your browsing experience on our site to be as easy as possible.

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