Accessibility Statement

RapidCents es committed a making its websites usable por as many people as possible, including people quién use screen readers, magnification, keyboard-solo navigation, speech input o reduced-motion settings. Este estado de cuenta sets out el standard el site es built against, qué has been implemented, cómo it es tested, qué es known no a meet el standard yet, y cómo a tell us Acerca de un barrier o ask para content en another format.

1. Nuestro commitment y el standard nosotros build a

Nosotros build a WCAG 2.2 Level AA. Nosotros son no claiming nosotros have reached it everywhere — nosotros son telling usted qué nosotros aim para y cómo nosotros check.

RapidCents treats accessibility as part de cómo el site es built rather than as un remediation exercise carried out afterwards. El target standard es el Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 en Level AA, published por el World Wide Web Consortium, applied a el public marketing surfaces described en section 2.

Este estado de cuenta records un target y un method, no un certificate. RapidCents does no claim full conformance con WCAG 2.2 Level AA across cada page, y no third party has been engaged a assess o certify este site. Conformance es assessed en un ongoing basis: pages son checked as they son built y re-checked cuando el templates behind them change, y qué es found es fixed o recorded en section 5.

Accessibility work continues después de publication. New content, new templates y new interactive components puede introduce barriers ese did no exist antes de, que es why el review cycle en section 9 y el feedback process en section 7 both exist.

2. Qué este estado de cuenta covers

Este estado de cuenta applies a el public RapidCents marketing websites: el pages served en rapidcents.com, including el Canadian English, Francés canadiense y Estados Unidos versions de those pages, en both el light y dark themes el site offers.

It does no cover el RapidCents panel de control del comercio, el pago interfaces presented a un titular de la tarjeta en proceso de pago, o el software running en pago terminals. Those son separate Productos con su own release cycles, y un estado de cuenta ese covered them sin testing them would ser worth nothing.

Some functionality en el marketing site es provided por embedded third-party components, including el estado de cuenta comparison tool, que loads its own interface, styles y scripts desde un separate service. RapidCents does no control el markup de un embedded third-party component, y el accessibility de those components may differ desde el rest de el site. Dónde un embed presents un barrier, tell us using el process en section 7: RapidCents will either work con el provider a have it corrected o provide el same information y el same outcome another way.

Content published antes de este estado de cuenta takes effect, y documents supplied por third parties, may no meet el target standard. Section 6 explains cómo a obtain ese material en un accessible format.

3. Qué has been implemented

El following son properties de el site as built, no aspirations. Each es implemented en el shared layout y component library, que means it applies across page templates rather than a un handful de pages.

• Text contrast es tested automatically against el WCAG AA thresholds — 4.5:1 para body text y 3:1 para large text — en both el light y el dark theme, en three viewport widths, as described en section 4.
• Interactive controls son built a un minimum target size de 44 por 44 pixels, so ese un control puede ser hit reliably por touch o por un imprecise pointer.
• Keyboard focus es visible. Controls carry un explicit focus indicator drawn en keyboard focus rather than relying en un navegador incumplimiento de pago ese un custom style might have removed.
• El header theme toggle y el country y language switcher son operable desde el keyboard. Menus y overlays, including el switcher panel, el navigation menus y el mobile navigation overlay, close en Escape y return focus a el control ese opened them.
• UN skip link es el first focusable element en el page y moves focus directly a el main content region, que es marked up as un single main landmark.
• Each page declares its language con un correct lang attribute matching la configuración regional (locale) it es served en: en-CA, fr-CA o en-US. Assistive technology needs este a choose el right pronunciation.
• Motion respects el prefers-reduced-motion setting. Dónde ese preference es set, animation y transition durations son reduced a effectively nothing site-wide, y components ese animate en scroll o en load render en su final state instead.
• El site es published en English y en Francés canadiense, con el same content available en both, y el switcher records su choice so it es no lost entre pages.
• Layout es tested para horizontal overflow en each tested viewport, because un page ese scrolls sideways en 390 pixels es un page ese cannot ser read en 400 percent zoom.

4. Cómo conformance es tested

UN script checks contrast en cada page template, en both themes, en three screen sizes. Automated checks catch un minority de accessibility problems, so people check el rest.

RapidCents runs un automated theme y contrast audit against el site as part de el checks performed antes de un release. El audit loads un representative URL para cada page template, en each de el three locales, en both el light y el dark theme, y en three viewports: 1440 por 900, 834 por 1112 y 390 por 844 pixels.

Para each de those combinations el audit walks el text nodes en el page, resolves el background actually painted behind each one, calculates el contrast ratio, y reports any pair below el WCAG AA threshold para its text size. It también reports text ese becomes effectively invisible cuando el theme es flipped, borders drawn en el same colour as el surface behind them, y pages ese overflow horizontally en el tested width. Findings son triaged y fixed en el shared components, so un fix applies everywhere el template es used rather than en el page dónde it fue noticed.

Automated checking has real limits, y it es important a ser plain Acerca de them. Automated rules puede measure contrast, detect un missing alternative text attribute y find un missing form label; they cannot judge whether alternative text es un accurate description, whether un heading order reflects el actual structure de el content, whether un keyboard user puede complete un task en un sensible order, o whether un interactive component announces itself correctly a un screen reader. Those son judgements, y they son made manually.

Manual checking accompanies el automated pass: navigating pages y interactive components con un keyboard alone, confirming focus order y focus visibility, verifying ese headings describe el structure they sit above, reviewing alternative text en content images, y checking pages en increased zoom.

5. Known limitations

RapidCents does no claim ese cada page de este site meets WCAG 2.2 Level AA today. El following son known a fall short o a ser unverified, y son recorded here rather than left para un visitor a discover.

• Embedded third-party components, including el estado de cuenta comparison tool, have no been assessed against WCAG 2.2 Level AA por RapidCents y son no under its control. Un alternative route a el same outcome es available en request.
• Content migrated desde el previous rapidcents.com website, including older articles y su images, may carry alternative text ese es missing o inadequate, y heading levels ese do no reflect el structure de el page. Este material es being reviewed as it es revised.
• Documents made available para download, y material originating desde third parties such as partners o tarjeta networks, may no meet el standard. Section 6 covers cómo a obtain el content en un accessible format.
• Complex illustrative graphics, including product y terminal visuals, carry un short text alternative rather than un full description de cada element depicted.
• El site has no been tested against cada combination de navegador, operating system y assistive technology. Testing concentrates en current versions de el major browsers y screen readers.

6. Requesting content en un accessible format

If something en este site does no work para usted, ask us para it another way. It es free, y nosotros will agree el format con usted.

If any information published en este site es no accessible a usted, RapidCents will provide it en another format, o provide communication Soporte so ese usted puede use it. Este includes Precios information, product details, legal documents y anything else en el public site.

Formats available en request include accessible electronic text, large print, plain text, y reading el material a usted over el telephone. El format will ser agreed con usted, because el person making el request es el one quién knows que format es usable. There es no charge para un alternate format beyond qué any otro person would pay para el same material, y RapidCents will supply it en un timely manner having regard a el request.

Make el request mediante el Contacto page en/contact, por telephone en+1-844-957-2743en Canada o+1-202-902-6226en Estados Unidos, o por mail a RapidCents Inc., 515 Consumers Road, Unit 210, North York, Ontario, M2J 4Z2, Canada. Tell us que page o document usted need y, if usted know it, el format ese works para usted.

7. Reporting un barrier, y cómo feedback es handled

Tell us qué did no work y dónde. Nosotros will confirm nosotros received it within five comercio days y tell usted qué nosotros son doing Acerca de it.

If usted encounter un barrier en este site, RapidCents wants a hear Acerca de it. UN report desde someone quién could no complete un task es más useful than any automated report, because it identifies el thing ese actually stopped un person.

Feedback puede ser given en whichever way es easiest para usted: mediante el Contacto page en/contact, por telephone en+1-844-957-2743en Canada o+1-202-902-6226en Estados Unidos, en writing por mail a RapidCents Inc., 515 Consumers Road, Unit 210, North York, Ontario, M2J 4Z2, Canada, o en persona en ese address. If un different method would suit usted better, ask y it will ser arranged. Feedback may ser given anonymously, although un reply es solo possible if usted leave un way a reach usted.

It helps a include el address de el page, qué usted were trying a do, qué happened instead, y el navegador y assistive technology usted were using, if usted know them. None de este es required a make un report.

RapidCents will acknowledge accessibility feedback within five comercio days y will reply en un accessible format o con communication Soporte if ese es qué usted need. El acknowledgement will say qué happens next: whether el barrier puede ser corrected quickly, whether it requires un change a un shared component o un third-party embed, y qué interim route exists a el information o service usted were trying a reach. Feedback es recorded y reviewed as part de el cycle en section 9, y RapidCents does no treat un report de un barrier as un complaint against el person making it.

8. Applicable frameworks

RapidCents es un Ontario-based Empresa y approaches web accessibility con reference a el Accessibility para Ontarians con Disabilities Act (AODA) y el Information y Communications Standards made under it, que address accessible websites y web content, accessible formats y communication supports en request, y un process para receiving y responding a feedback. Sections 6 y 7 set out cómo RapidCents meets el accessible-format y feedback requirements.

As un Canadian organization, RapidCents también has regard a el Accessible Canada Act y its objective de identifying, removing y preventing barriers, including en information y communication technologies. WCAG 2.2 Level AA es el technical standard used a give those obligations un measurable form, as described en section 1.

En Estados Unidos, accessibility de web content es addressed principally mediante el Americans con Disabilities Act (ADA) y, para federal agencies y su contractors, Section 508 de el Rehabilitation Act, que adopts WCAG success criteria as its technical baseline. RapidCents builds a WCAG 2.2 Level AA en its Estados Unidos pages para el same reasons it does en Canada. RapidCents makes no determination o representation as a conformance con Section 508 o el ADA, as no assessment against either has been carried out.

Nothing en este estado de cuenta limits any right usted have under accessibility o human rights legislation, y nothing en it es un waiver de any obligation RapidCents owes under ese legislation.

9. Review y updates a este estado de cuenta

Este estado de cuenta es reviewed en least once cada twelve months, y sooner cuando un page template changes materially, cuando un new interactive component o third-party embed es added, cuando el target standard es revised, o cuando feedback identifies un barrier ese changes qué section 5 should say.

Each review covers el same ground: el automated audit es run again across el templates, el manual checks en section 4 son repeated en el components ese changed, el known limitations en section 5 son re-verified so ese items que have been fixed son removed y newly identified items son added, y el feedback received since el last review es examined para patterns rather than treated solo case por case.

El revision date en el head de este page changes con cada edit; el effective date changes cuando el substance de el commitments changes. Earlier versions son superseded en el date un new version takes effect.