Hawaiʻi's Premier Parrot Rescue · Education · Community Support Organization
HFFN is committed to making this website usable by everyone. Here is where we stand, what we know needs work, and how to reach us if you encounter a barrier.
The Hawaiian Feathered Friends Network (“HFFN”) believes that information about parrot care, rescue resources, and our community should be accessible to everyone — including people with visual, auditory, motor, or cognitive disabilities. We are actively working to improve the accessibility of this website and to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA, the internationally recognized standard for web accessibility.
We are a small volunteer-run nonprofit, and like most organizations of our size we are working toward full conformance incrementally. This statement is our honest accounting of where things stand today — not a claim of perfect compliance — and our commitment to continued improvement.
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), are the internationally accepted framework for making web content accessible to people with disabilities. WCAG 2.1 Level AA is the baseline expected of most public-facing websites and the standard referenced by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in the context of digital accessibility.
WCAG 2.1 AA is organized around four core principles — that web content must be Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust. These are sometimes referred to as the POUR principles:
Content and interface components must be presentable to users in ways they can perceive — including through assistive technologies. This covers things like alternative text for images, captions for video, and sufficient color contrast between text and background.
Users must be able to operate all interface components and navigation — including with a keyboard alone, without requiring a mouse. This also covers providing users enough time to read and use content, and avoiding content that could trigger seizures.
Information and operation of the interface must be understandable. This includes readable text, predictable page behavior, and input assistance — such as clear form labels and helpful error messages — that helps users avoid and correct mistakes.
Content must be robust enough to be reliably interpreted by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies such as screen readers. This means using valid, well-structured HTML and ARIA markup appropriately.
This website is built on WordPress using the Xblog Pro theme with Elementor. Our current conformance status is partial. Many areas of the site are accessible and meet or approach WCAG 2.1 AA standards; others have known gaps that we are working to address. The table below summarizes our current status across key accessibility areas.
| Area | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Page language declaration | Meets standard | All pages declare lang="en" in the HTML element |
| Heading structure | Partial | Most pages use logical heading hierarchy; some Elementor-built sections may skip levels |
| Color contrast — body text | Meets standard | Primary text on light backgrounds meets the 4.5:1 minimum ratio |
| Color contrast — UI elements | Partial | Some decorative text overlays on hero images may not meet contrast thresholds at all viewport sizes |
| Image alternative text | Partial | Content images include alt text; some legacy images and embedded third-party content may lack descriptions |
| Keyboard navigation | Partial | Core navigation is keyboard accessible; some interactive Elementor widgets may have focus management limitations |
| Form labels | Meets standard | Contact, membership, and adoption forms have visible, programmatically associated labels |
| Skip navigation link | Known gap | A skip-to-main-content link is not currently present; we intend to add this |
| Focus indicators | Partial | Default browser focus outlines are present; custom-styled elements may have reduced focus visibility |
| PDF documents | Known gap | Any PDF documents linked from this site have not been formally assessed for accessibility |
| Video / audio content | Partial | We do not produce video content directly; embedded third-party videos (YouTube, Facebook) are subject to those platforms’ own accessibility features |
| Mobile responsiveness | Meets standard | The site is responsive and functions across common mobile and tablet viewport sizes |
| Font size / text resizing | Meets standard | Text can be resized up to 200% without loss of content or functionality |
This website embeds content from third-party platforms including Facebook (event and social feeds), Google Maps (meeting location), PayPal (donation buttons), and Givebutter (fundraising campaigns). HFFN does not control the accessibility of content generated by these services, and they may not fully conform to WCAG 2.1 AA.
If you encounter an accessibility barrier with embedded third-party content, we encourage you to also report the issue directly to the relevant platform. We will, where possible, seek accessible alternatives or supplementary access paths for essential content served through third parties.
Essential information is always available directly from HFFN. If embedded content — such as a Facebook event or a PayPal donation link — is not accessible to you, please contact us directly at hwnfeatheredfriends@gmail.com or (808) 294-7382. We will provide the same information or complete the same action through an alternative path.
We believe in being transparent about the gaps we are aware of rather than claiming full compliance we have not verified. The following are the most significant known accessibility limitations on this site as of the last review date:
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability. While the 2024 Department of Justice rule formalizing WCAG 2.1 AA as the specific web standard applies directly to state and local government entities under Title II, courts have increasingly recognized websites as places of public accommodation subject to Title III — the provision that applies to organizations like HFFN.
HFFN is committed to meeting WCAG 2.1 AA not because we are legally compelled to do so on a specific deadline, but because we believe accessible design is the right standard for a community organization, and because the trend in law and enforcement clearly points in this direction. We would rather do this proactively than reactively.
If you believe this website is not meeting its accessibility obligations and you wish to file a formal accessibility complaint, you may contact the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division at civilrights.justice.gov or call 1-800-514-0301 (voice) / 1-800-514-0383 (TTY). We would ask that you contact us directly first so we have the opportunity to resolve the issue — but we want you to know your options.
Accessibility improvement is an ongoing process, not a one-time project. Our current priorities are:
We review and update this Accessibility Statement at least annually, or sooner when significant site changes are made. The last review date is shown in the stats bar above.
If you experience an accessibility barrier on this website — a page that doesn’t work with your screen reader, content that is difficult to navigate with a keyboard, images that lack descriptions, or anything else that prevents you from fully accessing our resources — please contact us. We take every report seriously and will respond within five business days.
We also welcome general feedback on how we can make this site more usable. You do not need to have encountered a specific problem to tell us what could be better.
Hawaiian Feathered Friends Network
355 Hahani Street #793
Kailua, HI 96734
hwnfeatheredfriends@gmail.com
(808) 294-7382
When reporting an accessibility issue, it helps us to know: the page URL where you encountered the problem, the assistive technology or browser you were using, and a brief description of what you were trying to do and what happened instead. This information helps us reproduce and fix the issue faster.