Our Commitment to Web Accessibility

Sustainable Highland Park 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. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. Our website is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content may not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

Website accessibility is an ongoing process. As we add new pages and functionality to our website, all designs, code, and content entry practices are checked against these standards. Sustainable Highland Park assesses the website’s accessibility through self-evaluation. Our team members test our website using tools such as 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:

• Our website design is mobile-responsive with appropriately sized tap-targets.
• Navigational aids are provided on all pages. Skip navigation links have been incorporated to facilitate keyboard navigation and bypass content on a page, allowing users to jump directly to the primary navigation, main content, and footer.
• Our website declares a language in the header.
• All images and other non-text elements have appropriate alternative text associated with them.
• Structural markup to indicate expected section containers, headings, lists, and buttons has been provided to make our content more understandable and “skim-able” by all users, regardless of device.
• Forms are associated with labels and instructions on filling in forms are available, along with clearly understandable error states.
• Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) screen-reader only text is present when links, buttons, icons, or images require additional context to understand their meaning.
• A warning is provided before links open in a new tab or window.

Accessibility Limitations On Our Website

While we strive to meet WCAG guidelines, there are some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Known limitations:

• Meeting minutes are available in portable document format (PDF), which we do not test for accessibility. If you encounter a barrier to using our meeting minutes, we will make the source Google Doc files available.
• Video content on our site is neither captioned nor transcribed.

Accessibility Support Contact

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of Sustainable Highland Park. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on our site:

• E-mail: HighlandParkSustainable@gmail.com
• On Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SustainableHP/
• On Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/sustainablehighlandparknj/

We try to respond to feedback within 5 business days.