Website and Technology Accessibility Statement

Briggs & Riley values inclusion, equality and accessibility for all, which is why we strive to ensure our website is accessible to all people, regardless of abilities.

We will continue our efforts to improve the accessibility of our website, however, if you have specific questions, concerns, or feedback about the accessibility of our website, or if you are having difficulty or need assistance using our website, please contact us. 

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.

WCAG 2.0 and its successor, WCAG 2.1, are consistently identified and upheld as providing an acceptable level of accessibility, cited by plaintiffs and in rulings. This means that while the ADA doesn't yet specify WCAG as a formal standard under the law, the courts are upholding that compliance with WCAG provides reasonable accessibility.

Briggs & Riley is currently partially compliant with WCAG 2.1 Level AA. This means that some parts of the website do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

Accessibility assessment approach

Briggs & Riley assess the accessibility of the Briggs & Riley website periodically by means of external evaluations.

This means that an independent third party has evaluated the website against the WCAG 2.1 guidelines and reported on their findings. This was done using both automated and extensive manual testing, including testing with assistive technologies, to ensure excellent coverage.

Briggs & Riley is determined to try and remediate the findings from these evaluations, as to improve the accessibility of the Briggs & Riley website.

The most recent evaluation of the Briggs & Riley website took place in Q4 2022.

Known Accessibility Limitations

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of our website, there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Known accessibility limitations:

  1. Some functionality of the website is not operable via keyboard alone. This includes filtering products and sorting the results.
  2. People with some vision impairments might have trouble reading some elements on our website because they currently don’t meet color contrast guidelines.
  3. People who may need to increase the page size might have trouble interacting with the content
  4. People using assistive technologies may find it difficult to understand images and infographics that are missing alternative text.
  5. People using assistive technologies may have difficulty in understanding and navigating through the page structure.
  6. People using assistive technologies might have difficulty with some interactive controls that are missing labels which identify their purpose, error messages and additional instructions aren’t announced with their respective input fields.
  7. People using assistive technologies might have difficulty operating some parts of the website because custom components (i.e. accordions) do not behave as expected.

Briggs & Riley is actively working on resolving the accessibility problems on the Briggs & Riley website.

Technical Specifications

Accessibility of Briggs & Riley’s website relies on the certain technologies to make it work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer. These technologies include:

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • WAI-ARIA
  • Javascript

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

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of the Briggs & Riley website. Please contact us if you encounter accessibility barriers.