Website Accessibility Statement for grouchos.com

We Value Digital Inclusion

In our effort to help provide a fully accessible and optimized experience for our website visitors, grouchos.com has taken careful measures to help ensure an enhanced user experience, whether the website visitor is using assistive technologies such as a screen reader, magnifier, or other assistive technology to access the website.

This website is monitored and tested by AudioEye, a third-party provider of Web Accessibility testing and monitoring. Results of automated testing are reported to grouchos.com in the AudioEye platform. Further, to the extent grouchos.com engages AudioEye for expert review, remediation and user testing by people with disabilities, AudioEye either remediates discovered issues or provides a Source Feedback Report (SFR) for grouchos.com to remediate the issue. Finally, AudioEye continually improves and refines its existing solutions.

AudioEye Trusted Certification

The Trusted by AudioEye badge represents a commitment to accessibility and digital inclusion. The AudioEye certification process involves automatic and, if applicable, expert review, remediation, and user testing to increase conformance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, Level AA Success Criteria. AudioEye and grouchos.com continue to collaborate in an ongoing effort to help maintain conformance with the success criteria and help provide an accessible user experience for all website visitors.

AudioEye certifies that grouchos.com has engaged AudioEye to help grouchos.com conform with WCAG2.2 Level, AA Success Criteria.

AudioEye uses the following web browsers and web-based assistive technologies in testing its solutions:

The most recent and immediately prior two versions of any desktop standards-compliant web browser that represents over 5% market share.

Web-Based Assistive Technologies such as screen readers (i.e., JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver), magnification, voice dictation, and keyboard-only navigation generally favored by the disability community.

Web accessibility guidelines

Please see more information about WCAG compliance.

Improving the user experience for everyone

grouchos.com has leveraged the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 as reference to help ensure the web content made available from this website is more accessible for individuals with disabilities and user-friendly for everyone. These globally recognized best practices (as recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium) consist of three levels of accessibility measurement (A, AA, and AAA). AudioEye references Level AA of these guidelines in helping provide accessibility.

Related links: Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

AudioEye is available to assist website visitors with any issues accessing content and the various services and functions made available across grouchos.com. Website visitors are encouraged to engage with the Help Desk to report and troubleshoot web accessibility related issues.

The AudioEye Accessibility Help Desk

Providing Users with a Free and Customizable Assistive Utility

In addition to the above-mentioned techniques and strategies, we have provided the AudioEye Accessibility Help Desk that allows website visitors to report accessibility issues. The Help Desk also provides personalization tools that allow website visitors to customize their user experience.

If the AudioEye Accessibility Help Desk is not enabled by default, users can enable it by selecting the Activate Help Desk button below. Once activated, the Accessibility icon should be visible on any page of this website. Users can then engage the Help Desk by interacting with the Accessibility icon.

Deactivate Accessibility Help DeskCore features of AudioEye Accessibility Help Desk

AudioEye Help Desk

Users can report accessibility and usability-related issues.

Personalization tools

The personalization tools can be used to customize the visual display of the website.

Page elements navigation

Users can navigate easily through any page by element or content hierarchy.Third-party sites

Throughout this website, we may make use of different third-party websites such as Facebook, Google Maps, X (formerly known as Twitter), LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube to spread news and information about grouchos.com's products and services. These websites, which are not controlled by grouchos.com, may present challenges for individuals with disabilities that we are not able to control or remedy.

As made publicly available, here are the Accessibility Policies provided from these third-party websites:

Facebook Accessibility Policy

Google Maps Accessibility Policy

X (formerly known as Twitter) Accessibility Policy

LinkedIn Accessibility Policy

Instagram Accessibility Policy

YouTube Accessibility Policy

We pledge to do everything in our power to ensure the main functions of Grouchos.com are accessible to all users. While automated tools provide significant support, they cannot identify or correct every accessibility limitation.

If you encounter any accessibility barriers or have suggestions for improvement, we invite you to contact us. Your feedback will be reviewed promptly and carefully, and we will work toward a resolution.

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Accessibility of Grouchos.com relies on the following technologies working with your web browser, assistive technologies, and/or computer plugins:

• HTML

• WAI-ARIA

• CSS

• JavaScript

These technologies are necessary for our site to function in accordance with accessibility standards.