Accessibility Statement for Navigate School Choice

Our View on Accessibility

We believe parents should have access to all the tools and resources needed to navigate the diverse landscape of K-12 education options nationwide. Our goal is to inform, inspire, and empower families, making every aspect of school choice easier for them. We believe this information should be accessible to all types of users, and we built this website with that in mind.

Measures to support accessibility

National School Choice Awareness Foundation takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of Navigate School Choice:

• Include accessibility throughout our internal policies.
• Provide continual accessibility training for our staff.
• Assign clear accessibility goals and responsibilities.
• Employ formal accessibility quality assurance methods.

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. Navigate School Choice 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.

Technical specifications

Accessibility of Navigate School Choice 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 Navigate School Choice, 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 Navigate School Choice:

1. Still using some map images across the site: On pages where we provide roundups of all 50 states, we use maps as a quick visual reference but also provide a breakdown of each state below the map. We are trying to find a solution that provides the same type of quick breakdown for users who use screen readers. We provide the information in text below so users can still get a full analysis of each page.
2. We are using PDFs in our state pages: We provide snapshot PDFs for users to have a full breakdown of their state. All the information provided in the PDFs is accessible within the State Roadmap pages.
3. There are links to PDFs and other non-accessible documents throughout the content: We provide full access to information and resources that can help parents. Some of these third-party resources are in PDFs and other non-accessible documents. When we can, we work with partners to present the information in an accessible way.

Assessment approach

National School Choice Awareness Foundation assessed the accessibility of Navigate School Choice by the following approaches:

• Self-evaluation through WCAG Checkers

Date

This statement was created on 11 July 2024