Our Commitment to Web Accessibility

The Oneida County CJCC is committed to providing a fully accessible website experience for all users of all abilities, including those who rely on assistive technologies like screen readers, screen enlargement software, and alternative keyboard input devices to navigate the web.

Ongoing Efforts to Ensure Accessibility We follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.1 as our guiding principle for determining accessibility. These are internationally agreed-upon standards that cover a wide range of recommendations and best practices for making content useable. As we add new pages and functionality to our website, all designs, code, and content entry practices are checked against these standards.

Website accessibility is an ongoing process. We continually test content and features for WCAG 2.1 Level AA compliance and remediate any issues to ensure we meet or exceed the standards. Testing of our website is performed by our team members using industry-standard tools such as the Accessibility Checker WordPress Plugin, color contrast analyzers, keyboard-only navigation techniques, and Flesch-Kincaid readability tests.

Accessibility Features On Our Website Rather than relying on third-party overlays, we have manually built accessibility directly into the fabric of our website. The following is a list of native accessibility features we have implemented:

  • Keyboard Navigability: Our site is fully navigable using a keyboard. We have ensured that visible focus indicators are present on all interactive elements, allowing users to easily see where they are on the page.

  • Semantic Structure: We utilize proper HTML markup, including clear and logical heading structures (H1, H2, H3), which allows screen readers and assistive technologies to understand and navigate the content efficiently.

  • Alternative Text: Meaningful images and non-text elements on our site include descriptive alternative text (“alt text”) so that users with visual impairments can access the information conveyed by the images.

  • Color and Contrast: We have designed our website with color palettes that meet or exceed WCAG AA contrast ratios, ensuring that text is highly legible for users with low vision or color vision deficiencies.

  • Native Text Scaling: Our website is built with a responsive design that supports standard browser zoom features, allowing users to scale text up to 200% without loss of content or functionality.

  • Descriptive Link Text: We strive to use clear, descriptive text for all hyperlinks so users know exactly where a link will take them, avoiding ambiguous phrases like “click here.”

Where We’re Improving In our efforts to bring our website up to standard, we are targeting the following areas:

  • PDF Document Accessibility: Reviewing and remediating legacy downloadable documents (such as older Agendas, Minutes, and By-Laws) to ensure they are fully tagged and properly structured for screen readers.

  • Ongoing Content Audits: Performing regular, manual accessibility audits on newly added pages and posts to ensure that our strict structural standards and alt-text requirements are consistently met.

This is part of our broader effort to make everyone’s experience at the Oneida County CJCC a welcoming and enjoyable one. Please note that while we make every effort to provide information accessible for all users, we cannot guarantee the accessibility of third-party websites to which we may link.

Accessibility Support Contact We welcome comments, questions, and feedback on our website. If you are using assistive technologies and are having difficulty using our website, please use the CJCC Email link on our homepage or give us a call at 715-362-5695 (Oneida County Human Services). We will do our best to assist you and resolve issues.