The Office of Children & Families in the Courts 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
The following is a list of items we have included in our website to improve its accessibility:
- We have downloaded and are utilizing Equilized Digital ADA compliance checker to keep us ADA compliant.
- We have added alt text to images
- We have updated links with the appropriate text
- We have updated all pages to ensure all headers are listed in the appropriate order
- We have updated all pages to ensure text contrast is easily readable to everyone accessing our website
- We have updated all pages to ensure that all necessary content is seen by screen readers
Where We’re Improving
In our efforts to bring our website up to standard, we are targeting the following areas:
- On an ongoing basis we monitor and ensure our website is ADA compliant.
This is part of our broader effort to make everyone’s experience at the Office of Children & Families in the Courts website 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 email [email protected] or give us a call at 717-231-3300 extension 4255. We will do our best to assist you and resolve issues.