Accessibility Statement for The Gibney Family Foundation

Measures To Support Accessibility

We are taking the following measures to ensure accessibility on The Gibney Family Foundation website:

  • Include accessibility throughout our internal policies.
  • Assign clear accessibility goals and responsibilities.
  • Include people with disabilities in the design process.
  • Consult with accessibility professionals to understand and implement up-to-date accessibility measures.
  • Continuously collect feedback from people with disabilities to enhance the user experience and functionality.

Conformance Status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) define 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. The Gibney Family Foundation 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 The Gibney Family Foundation website. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on The Gibney Family Foundation website:

We try to respond to feedback within 5 business days. When providing feedback we encourage everyone to share as much detail about the barriers encountered as possible so that we can recreate and eliminate any barriers for our users.

Known Limitations

Despite our best efforts to ensure the accessibility of our 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.

1. Missing Landmarks and Regions 

Due to the platforms, themes, and plugins used to create this website, there are some pages which are missing main landmarks and other pages which may be missing regions and landmarks often used for page navigation. While on these pages, we recommend navigating using other methods such as headings, interactive elements, or even edit fields as they are more reliable and follow a logical and meaningful structure and order. 

2. PDF Documents 

Some pages within our website contain links ot PDF documents. Older versions of these documents may not be fully and readily accessible to all users. We are working to remediate these documents and recommend reaching out to us for alternative formats in the meantime. 

Assessment Approach

Our website has been evaluated against the WCAG guidelines with various assistive technologies. 

For testing, we worked with The Blind Institute of Technology to evaluate our website, its pages, and its content for areas we can improve upon. Testing was conducted from various screen reader perspectives, including JAWS and NVDA, from a visual accessibility perspective (including low vision, colorblindness, and physical reactions), from a keyboard only perspective, and from various devices, browsers, and operating systems.

Formal Complaints

If any issues are discovered or occur during your visit on The Gibney Family Foundation website, please get in touch using the email address provided above in the Feedback section. Inside of your email, please share the following information as best as possible:

1. Please describe the experience and how it was discovered.
2. Please share screenshots, screen-recordings, or written details of the issue.
3. Please specify if any assistive technologies were in use at the time of the experience.
4. Please provide feedback or instruction on how it could be improved for your personal experience.

5. Share any opinions or ideas that you experienced during the visit

Date

This statement was created on 5 August 2024.