When she’s not spending time with her family or sharing her story with others, you can find Tanya building relationships with community members and in the recovery industry to spread awareness for Asana Recovery, as part of our business development department.
Tanya is a nationally recognized author, speaker and life coach who uses lessons she has learned from the trauma in her life to help others cope. With the loss of her sister, Nicole Brown Simpson, Tanya is no stranger to trauma and adversity. She has been met with overwhelming challenges in her life, but has used these obstacles to improve her quality of life. Through all of that, she became a domestic violence advocate, doing speaking engagements and training to educate people about the realities of domestic abuse.
Tanya has been committed to speaking on overcoming adversity and promoting healthy mental health for overall well-being. She encourages her audiences to find peace amidst the chaos they experience daily, and learn how to use self-care tools to their best advantage. Her story inspires others to believe they can also overcome adversity with the willingness to ask for help.
She was led to work in this field because of both direct and indirect experiences in her life, but especially to change language and clarify the difference between mental illness and mental health. Tanya loves that knowing she has made a difference in someone trying to make a change in their life, and loves meeting people right where they are at in life. She uses her strengths of being able to relate and connect with people, as well as offering coping skills and strategies to best help those around her.
Tanya started her career in community relations after the murder of her sister, Nicole Brown Simpson. In 2005, she helped create the Nicole Brown Simpson Charitable Foundation to spread awareness on domestic violence. She has also worked in hospice care building relationships with seniors, and then took a break to decide where to go next. She then spent time as an admissions coordinator at Laguna Treatment Hospital before starting with Asana Recovery.
When she’s not working, Tanya most enjoys spending time with all of her family including her 2 older sisters, mom and nieces and nephews. Her family is her refuge as well as her closest friends, so anytime she can spend time with them is what makes her the happiest. She also loves playing tennis and plays whenever she can, swimming, and indoor cycling. She spends as much time as she can at the beach or with friends.
Tanya takes a lot of inspiration from her Mom. Her mom was a child in WWII, had a daughter murdered, lost a husband to Alzheimers, and had stage 3C breast cancer, but yet will never complain. Tanya admires how truly genuine, sincere and grateful her mother is and translates this inspiration into her everyday work.
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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.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
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