Accessibility Statement
We are committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone and applying the relevant accessibility standards and best practices regularly.
Conformance Status
The
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) define requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA.
Our accessibility tool provides an interface that allows visitors to manipulate their browsing experience. The complete toolset aims to assist this site in conforming as closely as possible to the standards by the
WCAG 2.1 Level AA.
Although our goal is WCAG 2.1 Level AA conformance, we have also applied some Level AAA criteria.
Measures taken to achieve compliance:
- Complete website auditing, with scans conducted on a routine basis.
- Accessibility profiles have been created allowing users to turn on multiple options at once for various needs. Profiles include:
- Vision Impaired Mode
- Seizure Safe Profile
- ADHD Friendly Mode
- Blindness Mode
- Epilepsy Safe Mode
- Content, font, font weight, line height, and line spacing scaling options have been implemented.
- Text magnification and readable fonts.
- Content alignment including left, center, and right.
- Dark and Light Contrast modes as well as High Contrast that increases contrast ratio to 135%.
- Saturation and Monochrome adjustment capability.
- Implementation of Dyslexia friendly font.
- Ability to highlight titles and links.
- Image and link titles, as well as alternative text has been implemented.
- Live-streams of various board meetings and all videos will include closed captioning.
- Read page option provides audio narration of content.
- Options to hide images, mute all sounds, and disable animations.
- Keyboard navigation control.
All of these controls and options are available within our Accessibility Widget, which is present on each page and located in the bottom left corner on desktop, tablet and mobile devices.
Browser & Assistive Technology Compatibility
We strive to be compatible with the following assistive technologies:
- Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera, Microsoft Edge, JAWS, and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for Apple users.
Technical Specifications
Accessibility of this site relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browsers and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:
- HTML
- WAI-ARIA
- CSS
- JavaScript
These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.
Notes
While our main goal is to make the entire site accessible to all users, there is a possibility that some issues may not have been discovered yet or do not have a satisfactory accessibility remediation solution at this time. Site-wide scans are done on a routine basis and our IT Department is committed to working on remediating new issues as they arise. If you have any issues or suggestions on how we can improve your experience when using our website please contact us at (701) 252-9035 or
it@stutsmancounty.gov.
