Accessibility Statement

Accuracy The best accessibility statement for your business is one that accurately reflects your business’s commitment, status, and investment into accessibility. This is critical. Providing purposefully misleading or deceptive information is problematic. Adjust each section to best reflect your business’s commitment, status, and investment. Do not mislead your audience into believing they will encounter an accessible experience if they will not. Scope Your organization may not have taken all actions outlined within each section. For actions not taken, weigh removing that language. For actions that are in the process of being taken, weigh turning “completed” language into “process” language. For example, instead of “business meets requirements”, update the wording to “business strives to meet requirements” or “business continuously works to meet requirements.” Copyright Kris’s Accessibility Statement Template is Copyright © 2021 - 2024 Kris Rivenburgh and Accessible.org. All rights Reserved. You may customize this template to create your own accessibility statement, but you may not rename, sell / resell, bundle, white label, private label, password protect, and/or take credit for this template in any way. You may share this document so long as it remains completely free, does not require a membership or subscription to access (e.g., no free or paid registration or email subscription required), and remains unedited, unaltered, unbundled, and in its original form. Acceptable means of sharing include: • Posting a link to social media • Posting a link on your website • Uploading and linking to the original, unedited PDF on your website (e.g., yourwebsite.com/kris-statement.pdf) • Emailing a copy to your friend Outside of normal use (i.e., use of language in your organization’s accessibility statement), no more than 44 words of this template may be copied, printed, republished, etc. in a magazine, newspaper, blog, or website – without permission in writing from the Author/Creator, Kris Rivenburgh. Any quote or cite to content in this template and document must be accompanied with an active hypertext link attribution to https://accessible.org. If you would like to tell friends, family, and others about this guide, you can also share a link to https://accessible.org where they can download the latest version. For information, contact the author by email at kris@accessible.org.

Disclaimer By reading this document, you agree to release Author/Creator/Publisher, Kris Rivenburgh and Accessible.org, from any and all liability resulting from your use of this document. This accessibility template incorporates language and sections the creator believes are generally important to a robust accessibility statement. This does not mean that the template is exhaustive or all key information and considerations have been included, particularly those that are specific to your organization. There may be important items that are missing from this template. Moreover, you must adjust, edit, and customize this template to accurately reflect your organization’s commitment and state of accessibility, among other things. By continuing to read and use this template and supporting documentation, you understand that it is generalized and will be incomplete and may be inaccurate. You agree not to hold the Author/Creator/Publisher of this guide (or any of his businesses/companies) liable for any reliance upon this document. You further agree to base your ultimate decision-making on your counsel’s recommendation and not this template. The material in this template and document is provided “as is” and without warranties of any kind express or implied. The Author/Creator/Publisher disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The Author/Creator/Publisher does not warrant or make any representations regarding the use or the results of the use of the materials in this template and document in terms of their correctness, accuracy, reliability, or otherwise. Under no circumstances, including but not limited to, negligence, shall the Author/Creator/Publisher be liable for any special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use this template and document. In no event shall the Author/Creator/Publisher’s total liability to you for all damages, losses, and causes of action exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for this template and document. You agree to hold the Author/Creator/Publisher and any connected principals, agents, or entities free from any and all liability for all claims for all damages except for claims of gross negligence and intentional wrongdoing. Note that applicable law may preclude the exclusion of implied warranties or the limitation of damages so these may not apply to you. You agree that any and all claims for gross negligence or intentional tort shall be settled solely by confidential binding arbitration per the American Arbitration Association’s commercial arbitration rules. All arbitration must occur in the municipality where the Author/Creator/Publisher’s principal place of business is located. Your claim cannot be aggregated with third party claims. Arbitration fees and costs shall be split equally, and you are solely responsible for your own attorney’s fees. Your use of this template and document and engagement of any activities mentioned in this template and document means that you are legally bound to these terms. You should always conduct your own due diligence engaging in activity that potentially has large financial risks or expenditures. If you have any questions or reservations about the legal terms, conditions, and/or copyright of this template and document, contact me at kris@accessible.org.