When she’s not spending her time out on the water or watching a good move, you can find Kerry working as a Support Specialist at our facility, where she handles auditing and transportation and any other tasks that need completing.
A typical day for Kerry consists of picking up clients from one of the houses and taking them to the center, auditing and spreadsheets, and any transportation that is needed. She is always ready for whatever is thrown her way!
Kerry was led to work in this field because of a job offer, and has not regretted one moment. She loves that she has the opportunity to be able to give back what was freely given to her and help however she can, which she can do in her position at Asana Recovery. She uses her strengths of compassion, reliability, loyalty and attention to detail to best serve and help those around her.
Kerry has experience in the past with auditing and spreadsheets, but is new to the recovery field and is so thankful to be a part of this type of work. She is inspired by watching and learning from her co-workers, management and clients.
When she’s not working, she enjoys spending her time in the ocean or walking along the beach. She just loves being on the water in general, so any chance she gets she spends fishing, or boating and just taking in all the sights and smells. She also loves to go frog gigging and noodling whenever she can (it’s a southern thing!). If she could travel anywhere in the world, it would be to Greece or Spain to see the many incredible buildings, structures, and the beauty of each place.
Kerry takes a lot of inspiration from Robert Downie Jr., because of the many things that he overcame in his life. She admires that he overcame an addiction in his youth, and went on to live a successful life, but continue to remain humble and share with AA groups around the country.
When we asked her to describe herself in three words, her answer was patient, strong and an over-thinker. This is exactly how people around her view and why she makes such a great addition to the team!
Her advice to anyone looking to work in this field is that you need to be “all in”. She says it is also important to have compassion and understanding, as well as patience, because the clients are not their “real selves” yet and they need time to heal.
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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 all people: 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 the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
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Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to 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, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background 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 and 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 that are 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 all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
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 quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements 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, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of 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 for MAC users.
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 and 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. For any assistance, please reach out to