Accessibility Statement for HST Spindles

Website: https://hstspindles.com/
Last Revised: October 2, 2025

At HST Spindles, we are committed to ensuring that our website and all digital services are accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities. This document describes our accessibility practices, the standards we follow, and how you can provide feedback.

HST Spindles takes the following measures to ensure accessibility:

  • Clear accessibility targets and responsibilities exist within the organisation.
  • Website accessibility is an ongoing effort we actively monitor.

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are a set of standards that must be adhered to to ensure accessibility for people with disabilities. There are three defined levels of conformance: A, AA, and AAA.

HST Spindles is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 AA. This means that there are some parts of the content that do not conform to the accessibility standard.

Known accessibility limitation

Features or content that do not meet accessibility standards:

  1. Videos:
    Our videos currently lack closed captions, and we plan to add accurate captions to all existing and new videos by the end of Q3 2026.

Unresolved accessibility barriers due to budget or technical limitations (Disproportionate burden):

  1. Links lack clear, descriptive text or accessible names
  2. Text and images of text do not meet minimum contrast ratios
  3. Lists are not using proper semantic markup (<ul>, <ol>, <dl>)
  4. Color is used as the only visual cue to convey information
  5. Keyboard focus is placed on elements hidden using aria-hidden="true"
  6. Interactive elements are nested within other interactive elements
  7. Interactive targets do not meet minimum size requirements
  8. Avoid serving legacy JavaScript to modern browsers
  9. Legacy JavaScript
  10. Ensure text remains visible during webfont load
  11. Use efficient cache lifetimes
  12. Avoid an excessive DOM size
  13. Improve image delivery
  14. Time to Interactive
  15. Largest Contentful Paint element
  16. Font display
  17. Network dependency tree
  18. Serve static assets with an efficient cache policy
  19. Properly size images
  20. Avoid an excessive DOM size
  21. Ensure text remains visible during webfont load
  22. Font display
  23. Improve image delivery
  24. Time to Interactive
  25. Forced reflow
  26. Serve images in next-gen formats
  27. Efficiently encode images
  28. Image elements do not have explicit `width` and `height`
  29. Does not use passive listeners to improve scrolling performance
  30. Avoid large layout shifts
  31. LCP requests discovery
  32. Layout shift culprits
  33. Avoid enormous network payloads
  34. Max Potential First Input Delay
  35. Minify JavaScript
  36. Document does not have a meta description
 
 

Technical specifications

Accessibility of HST Spindles depends on the following technologies:

  • HTML
  • WAI-ARIA
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

Compatibility with the user environment

This site is designed to be compatible with the following browsers:

  • Safari
  • Chrome
  • Firefox

This site is designed to be compatible with the following operating systems:

  • Windows 10+
  • Mac OS 13+

Assessment methods

HST Spindles assessed the accessibility of this site using the following method(s):

  • Self-evaluation: The content was evaluated by your own organization or the developer of the content
  • External evaluation: The content was evaluated by an external entity not involved in the design and development process

Accessibility evaluation report

You can access our accessibility evaluation report at:

https://hstspindles.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/hst-spindles-accessibility-audit-oct-2025.pdf

Accessibility evaluation statement

You can access our accessibility evaluation statement at:

https://hstspindles.com/accessibility-statement/

Feedback process

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of HST Spindles. Please get in touch with us via one of the following methods:

Phone: 1-603-483-0333
E-mail: [email protected]


Visitor Address: HST Spindles
1357 Route 3A, Unit 9
Bow, NH 03304


Postal Address: HST Spindles
1357 Route 3A, Unit 9
Bow, NH 03304

We aim to respond to feedback within two business days.

Formal complaints

If you haven't received a timely or adequate response to the accessibility issue. Please raise a formal complaint to the given enforcement team:

Name: U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
Link to the enforcement procedure or authority: https://www.ada.gov/file-a-complaint/

Contact details:

U.S. Department of Justice
Civil Rights Division
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530