ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT FOR Birch Hills County Website

This is an accessibility statement from Birch Hills County

CONFORMANCE STATUS

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines 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. Birch Hills County Website is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

FEEDBACK

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of Birch Hills County Website. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on the County Website:

• Civic Address: 4601 50th Street, Wanham, AB
• Phone: 780-694-3793
• Fax: 780-694-3788

We try to respond to feedback within 2 business days.

COMPATIBILITY WITH BROWSERS AND ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Accessibility of Birch Hills County Website relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser 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.

LIMITATIONS AND ALTERNATIVES

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of Birch Hills County Website , there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Known limitations for Birch Hills County Website:

1. Embedded content from third parties such as YouTube : This content may not meet accessibility requirements as they are supplied from a third party. This may include a lack of the following: alternative text, titles, color contrasts, captioning, etc. because We cannot ensure the compliance of outside websites/services.. We do our best to vet all embedded content for accessibility. Please contact us to report a specific issue.
2. Some PDF documents may not need accessibility guidelines: Older documents uploaded prior to this dated accessibility statement may not meet requirements, however going forward we intend to make every effort to upload accessible files.

ASSESSMENT APPROACH

Birch Hills County assessed the accessibility of the County Website by the following approaches:

• Self-evaluation