Accessibility

Site Accessibility Policy

Our efforts to comply with section 508 are ongoing. We are focused on:

  • Text Alternatives

  • Adaptability

  • Distinguishability

  • Keyboard Accessibility

  • Time

  • Seizures

  • Navigation

  • Input Modalities

  • Predictability

  • Understandability

  • Input Assistance

  • Robustness

Text Alternatives

  1. We include no images on the registration form

  2. By the end of 2024, all images on the event websites will have alt text options for the admin

  3. Form buttons have descriptive values

  4. iFrames have titles

Adaptability

  1. By the end of 2024, semantic markup on the registration form

  2. By the end of 2024, semantic markup on the event website

  3. By the end of 2024, navigation order will be logical and intuitive

  4. Instructions are currently not based on shape or color

  5. By the end of 2024, fields that collect a certain type of user data will have an appropriate autocomplete attribute defined.

Distinguishability

  1. Color is not the sole method of conveying content or distinguishing visual elements.

  2. By the end of 2024, color alone will not be used to distinguish links from surrounding text. We plan to underline hyperlinks in virtually all cases on the registration form and event website areas.

  3. Images are not currently used in lieu of text where text, alone, suffices

  4. Responsive design is offered on the event website

  5. Responsive design is offered on the registration form.

  6. In virtually all cases, no loss of content or functionality occurs when the user adapts paragraph spacing to 2x the font size, text line height/spacing is 1.5 times the font size, word spacing is .16 times the font size and letter spacing is .12 the font size.

Keyboard Accessible

  1. By the end of 2024, all functionality on the registration page will be available using the keyboard (unless the functionality cannot be accomplished in any known way using a keyboard).

  2. By the end of 2024, all functionality on the event landing page will be available using the keyboard (unless the functionality cannot be accomplished in any known way using a keyboard).

  3. By the end of 2024, keyboard focus will never be locked or trapped at one particular page element.

Timing

  1. Data is preserved indefinitely provided the user clicks the CONTINUE button after the first registration step (in order to commit the data to our database).

  2. We offer no time-based media.

Seizures

  1. No content flashes more than 3 times per second

  2. We do not animate any content

Navigation

  1. The purpose of each link or button can be determined from the link text alone or from the link text and its context.

  2. Beyond providing an overall document structure, individual secitons of content are designated using headings, where applicable.

  3. Most pages have a descriptive and informative page title. We expect to complete this by the end of 2024

  4. Navigation order will be logical and intuitive by the end of 2024. We are re-designing our registration page to have better tab indexing.

Input Modalities

  1. Content does not restrict input to a specific modality, such as touch-onlly or keyboard-only, but supports using alternative inputs.

  2. We utilize onclick vs non-essential down-event (onmousedown) activation methods.

  3. By the end of 2024 all of our interface components will have alt text, labels or visible text.

Understandable

  1. The language of the page is identified using the HTML “lang” attribute.

  2. The pages do not use words that are ambiguous or unfamiliar.

Predictable

  1. When a page element receives focus, it does not result in a substantial change to the page, the spawning of a pop-up window, an additional change of keyboard focus, or any other change that could confuse or disorient the user.

Input Assistance

  1. For validation errors are efficient, intuitive and accessible

  2. Sufficient labels, cues and instructions for required interactive elements are provided via instructions, examples, properly positioned form labels and or fieldsets or legends.

  3. Most of our form elements that require a specific format, value or length have a label indicating as much. The remainder will be completed by the end of 2024.

Robust

  1. We avoid significant HTML validation/parsing.