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Corporate Responsibility - The RTA Store

The RTA Store's

Corporate Responsibility

At TheRTAStore.com, we recognize the importance of giving back, both locally and nationally. There are so many worthy causes out there and we’re honored to be a part of numerous opportunities to help better the lives of the community around us and those throughout the nation.

Our company is filled with people who have causes that are specifically important to them and their families. Whether it’s something that has affected them personally or someone they know, these charities are very close to their hearts. TheRTAStore.com supports all charities that our employees are involved in and we give as much as possible to ensure the ongoing efforts of each organization.

On a more local scale, we support children’s sports teams, an animal rescue foundation, and every year, help numerous needy families and children have a better Christmas and holiday season. We also get involved in local branches of excellent causes such as St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the American Cancer Society, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

Giving back and helping those in need has always been a top priority for everyone at TheRTAStore.com. We’re lucky to have such a caring and involved group of individuals and are humbled by their commitment to so many excellent causes. We’re honored to be able to support everything they’re involved in, in addition to numerous other charities and organizations every year.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

http://www.stjude.org/
$1,000 donation

St. Jude is unlike any other pediatric treatment and research facility. Discoveries made there have completely changed how the world treats children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases. With research and patient care under one roof, St. Jude is where some of today’s most gifted researchers are able to do science more quickly. The mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment.

Love Holds Life Children's Cancer Foundation - Platinum Sponsor

Love Holds Life Children's Cancer Foundation - Platinum Sponsor

http://www.lhlny.org/
$1,000 donation

Love Holds Lifes mission is to help children in the New York Metro and Hudson Valley region battling cancer and their families by providing financial support for their medical treatments and expenses not covered by insurance. Their financial program consists of funding a child’s medical deductible, co­-payment and prescriptions, along with travel reimbursement to and from treatment. Their ultimate mission is to ensure children with love and life.

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

http://jdrf.org/
$10,000 donation

JDRF is the leading diabetes foundation funding T1D research. JDRF’s goal is to progressively remove the impact of T1D from people’s lives until we achieve a world without T1D. JDRF collaborates with a wide spectrum of partners and is the only organization with the scientific resources, regulatory influence, and a working plan to better treat, prevent, and eventually cure T1D.

St. Denis-St. Columba Gala

St. Denis-St. Columba Gala

http://stcolumba.net/
$1,000 donation

The SDSC Annual Gala is a fundraising event that supports education at St. Denis-St. Columba School.

The Sato Project

The Sato Project

https://www.thesatoproject.org/
$15,000 donation

The Sato Project is dedicated to rescuing abused and abandoned dogs from "Dead Dog Beach", located in Puerto Rico.

We concentrate our rescue on a place known as Dead Dog Beach. As its name states, it is usually a last resting place for dogs, and it is not a happy one. No dog walks to Dead Dog Beach - it is at the end of a long road with no residences - they are dumped there. There is no food or fresh water on the beach. We are the dogs’ only source of food, fresh water, and most importantly, love, on a daily basis. We take our rescue mission very seriously.

Rescuing dogs means more than just pulling them off a beach or the streets. We are dedicated to each and every one of our dogs and we want to give them the greatest chance in life. After what they have been through, what they have witnessed, we never want them to suffer again.

CNY Voices

CNY Voices

https://weare.cnyarts.org/directory/view/cny-voices
$250 donation

Community choir in Syracuse, NY

Operation Smile

Operation Smile

https://www.operationsmile.org/
$5,000 donation

Operation Smile is an international medical charity that has provided hundreds of thousands of free surgeries for children and young adults in developing countries who are born with cleft lip, cleft palate or other dental and facial conditions.

Long Island Bulldog Rescue

Long Island Bulldog Rescue

http://www.longislandbulldogrescue.org/
$10,000 donation

The mission of Long Island Bulldog Rescue (LIBR) is to provide education, prevention, intervention, and adoption services to ensure that all English Bulldogs enjoy long, healthy lives in loving, safe, appropriate homes where they are provided the life-long care they require. TheRTAStore.com was a Platinum Paw sponsor for LIBR’s Bash for the Bulldogs 15th Anniversary on December 2nd, 2014. We awarded one lucky raffle winner with a kitchen valued up to $10,000

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

https://www.mskcc.org/
$1,000 donation

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center — the world’s oldest and largest private cancer center — has devoted more than 135 years to exceptional patient care, innovative research, and outstanding educational programs. Today, we are one of 51 National Cancer Institute–designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers, with state-of-the-art science flourishing side by side with clinical studies and treatment.

The close collaboration between our physicians and scientists is one of our unique strengths, enabling us to provide patients with the best care available as we work to discover more-effective strategies to prevent, control, and ultimately cure cancer in the future. Our education programs train future physicians and scientists, and the knowledge and experience they gain at Memorial Sloan Kettering has an impact on cancer treatment and biomedical research around the world.

Local Covid Relief for Impacted Restaurants & Families

Local Covid Relief for Impacted Restaurants & Families

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$7960 donation

Our local community was impacted at the start of covid like so many across the country. With businesses forced to shut down and some of the hardest hit being local restaurants. 

TheRTAStore jumped into action and partnered with a local church organziation to donate purchased meals from local resturants to families in immediate need.

NAACP Legal Defense Fund

NAACP Legal Defense Fund

https://www.naacpldf.org/
$1,000 donation

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. is America’s premier legal organization fighting for racial justice. Through litigation, advocacy, and public education, LDF seeks structural changes to expand democracy, eliminate disparities, and achieve racial justice in a society that fulfills the promise of equality for all Americans. LDF also defends the gains and protections won over the past 80 years of civil rights struggle and works to improve the quality and diversity of judicial and executive appointments.

Movement For Black Lives

Movement For Black Lives

https://m4bl.org/
$1,000 donation

The Movement for Black Lives is an ecosystem of individuals and organizations creating a shared vision and policy agenda to win rights, recognition, and resources for Black people. In doing so, the movement makes it possible for us, and therefore everyone, to live healthy and fruitful lives.

Campaign Zero

Campaign Zero

https://www.campaignzero.org/
$1,000 donation

Campaign Zero encourages policymakers to focus on solutions with the strongest evidence of effectiveness at reducing police violence.

Rebuilding Together Dutchess County

Rebuilding Together Dutchess County

http://www.rebuildingtogetherdutchess.org/
$500 donation

Safe homes and communities for everyone. Repairing homes, revitalizing communities, rebuilding lives. 

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Compliance status

We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the broadest possible audience, regardless of ability.

To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.

This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.

Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.

If you wish to contact the website’s owner please use the website's form

Screen-reader and keyboard navigation

Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers can read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements:

  1. Screen-reader optimization: we run a process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others.

    Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images. It provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts embedded within the image using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.

    These adjustments are compatible with popular screen readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack.
  2. Keyboard navigation optimization:
    The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.

    Additionally, keyboard users will find content-skip menus available at any time by clicking Alt+2, or as the first element of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, not allowing the focus to drift outside.

    Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.

Disability profiles supported on our website

  • Epilepsy Safe Profile: this profile enables people with epilepsy to safely use the website by eliminating the risk of seizures resulting from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.
  • Vision Impaired Profile: this profile adjusts the website so that it is accessible to the majority of visual impairments such as Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
    Cognitive Disability Profile: this profile provides various assistive features to help users with cognitive disabilities such as Autism, Dyslexia, CVA, and others, to focus on the essential elements more easily.
  • ADHD Friendly Profile: this profile significantly reduces distractions and noise to help people with ADHD, and Neurodevelopmental disorders browse, read, and focus on the essential elements more easily.
  • Blind Users Profile (Screen-readers): this profile adjusts the website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is installed on the blind user’s computer, and this site is compatible with it.
  • Keyboard Navigation Profile (Motor-Impaired): this profile enables motor-impaired persons to operate the website using the keyboard Tab, Shift+Tab, and the Enter keys. Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.

Additional UI, design, and readability adjustments

  1. Font adjustments – users can increase and decrease its size, change its family (type), adjust the spacing, alignment, line height, and more.
  2. Color adjustments – users can select various color contrast profiles such as light, dark, inverted, and monochrome. Additionally, users can swap color schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds with over seven different coloring options.
  3. Animations – epileptic users can stop all running animations with the click of a button. Animations controlled by the interface include videos, GIFs, and CSS flashing transitions.
  4. Content highlighting – users can choose to emphasize essential elements such as links and titles. They can also choose to highlight focused or hovered elements only.
  5. Audio muting – users with hearing devices may experience headaches or other issues due to automatic audio playing. This option lets users mute the entire website instantly.
  6. Cognitive disorders – we utilize a search engine linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary, allowing people with cognitive disorders to decipher meanings of phrases, initials, slang, and others.
  7. Additional functions – we allow users to change cursor color and size, use a printing mode, enable a virtual keyboard, and many other functions.

Assistive technology and browser compatibility

We aim to support as many browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS, and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and MAC users.

Notes, comments, and feedback

Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating, improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility following technological advancements. If you wish to contact the website’s owner, please use the website's form