Accessibility Statement for Santa Monica Bay Sailing Foundation Website
This is an accessibility statement from Santa Monica Bay Sailing Foundation.
Measures to support accessibility
Santa Monica Bay Sailing Foundation takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of Santa Monica Bay Sailing Foundation Website:
- We have taken the first step, which is making our team aware of accessibility with our website. We are currently working to remediate the site and also to plan for a new, accessible site in the future.
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. Santa Monica Bay Sailing Foundation Website is partially conformant with The site was built many years ago on the WordPress “The Conference Pro” theme. Some pages use the Classic Editor and some use Elementor. So any accessibility standards are native to those apps. . 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 Santa Monica Bay Sailing Foundation Website. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on Santa Monica Bay Sailing Foundation Website:
- Phone: 805-328-4299
- E-mail: info@smbsf.org
We try to respond to feedback within Response times varies. We have no paid staff, only a volunteer board of directors.
Technical specifications
Accessibility of Santa Monica Bay Sailing Foundation 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
- CSS
These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.
Limitations and alternatives
Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of Santa Monica Bay Sailing Foundation 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 Santa Monica Bay Sailing Foundation Website:
- Color contrast: Some parts of the site, including text, have color contrast issues. because This is due to the theme we are using now and how it assigns colors. There is not much flexibility.. We’ve adjusted the colors to make as much text meet high enough contrast as possible, for now.. Please contact us if you can not read something..
- Some images do not have alt text.: Link text (and alternate text for images, when used as links) that is discernible, unique, and focusable improves the navigation experience for screen reader users. Some of our links may not have the correct focus state. because This is due to the site being built many years ago, and editors did not know this was needed.. We are working on adding alt text to images over time.. Please contact us.
- The following items need manual testing and as of the date of this document, that has not happened yet. It is on our to-do list to get the manual tests done in 2024 and to correct what we can.
- Interactive controls are keyboard focusable
- Interactive elements indicate their purpose and state
- The page has a logical tab order
- Visual order on the page follows DOM order
- User focus is not accidentally trapped in a region
- The user’s focus is directed to new content added to the page
- HTML5 landmark elements are used to improve navigation
- Offscreen content is hidden from assistive technology
- Custom controls have associated labels
- Custom controls have ARIA roles
Assessment approach
Santa Monica Bay Sailing Foundation assessed the accessibility of Santa Monica Bay Sailing Foundation Website by the following approaches:
- Self-evaluation
Date
This statement was created on 9 August 2024 using the W3C Accessibility Statement Generator Tool.