Accessibility Notice

Rockridge Digital’s Accessibility Philosophy and Policies

Rockridge Digital is committed to building standards-based products to help customers reduce complexity and get the most out of existing technology investments, and this commitment extends to our approach to accessibility. Rockridge Digital uses industry-standard technologies such as HTML, PHP, JavaScript and Java to render most user interfaces, and we follow internationally-recognized accessibility standards allowing support for a broad range of assistive technology (AT) such as screen readers, screen magnifiers, and voice recognition.

Accessibility has presented unique challenges to the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) community as a whole due to the range of laws and guidelines related to it, and the rapid pace of changes in technology, and the impact across nearly every aspect of product development from initial design through Support. Learn how Rockridge Digital is meeting those challenges below.

Accessibility Policies

Guidelines and Standards

The Rockridge Digital Accessibility Guidelines are based on the 2017 Revised Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended, and the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.2 guidelines at the AA level (WCAG 2.2 AA).

Rockridge Digital is committed to developing new websites and products in conformance with Revised Section 508 and the WCAG 2.2 AA standards to the extent practicable. As new products and revisions are released that conform to the Revised Section 508 and WCAG 2.2 standards, we will review properties and publish Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACRs) based on the Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates (VPATs) that use the updated VPAT 2.5 template, including VPATs that show a table of all the WCAG 2.2 ‘A’ and ‘AA’ standards, in addition to the Section 508 standards on request.

In 2017 the U.S. Access Board announced the Revised Section 508 standard that was based on the WCAG 2.0 AA standards. In 2014, the initial version of the European Union standard EN 301 549 ‘Accessibility requirements suitable for public procurement of ICT products and services in Europe,’ issued in response to Mandate 376, was based on the WCAG 2.0 AA standards. It was updated in 2019 to include WCAG 2.1. EN 301 549 Accessibility requirements suitable for public procurement of ICT products and services in Europe (PDF) – V3.1.1 (2019-11). Rockridge Digital is closely tracking progress on these guidelines. Any standard is subject to some amount of interpretation.

Accessibility Status

Rockridge Digital websites and digital products are tested for accessibility using a variety of techniques including automated tools, expert heuristic review, visual inspection, manual operation, and testing with various AT by both disabled and non-disabled users. We report the outcome of that testing using the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) to create the Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR). The VPAT was developed by ITI and GSA to assist Federal contracting officials and other buyers in making preliminary assessments regarding the availability of commercial ICT products and services with features that support accessibility. Contact Rockridge Digital at hello@rockridgedigital.com for more information.