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Section 2: The standards we follow
We work toward Level AA of WCAG 2.1, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines published by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). Those guidelines rest on four principles, usually shortened to POUR:
PPerceivable
Information reaches every visitor in a form they can take in — text alternatives for images, and enough contrast between text and what sits behind it.
OOperable
Every control and every path through the site can be worked with a keyboard, a voice, or another input device — a mouse is never the only way through.
UUnderstandable
Text reads plainly, and the interface behaves the same way each time you return to it.
RRobust
Clean, standard markup keeps this site working with today's assistive technology, and gives it a fair shot with tomorrow's.
We check the site against these guidelines with both automated tools and hands-on testing — keyboard navigation, zoom behavior, color contrast — and act on what we find, repeating the review whenever the site changes.