How we keep this site readable

This site is designed to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA. The guidelines are published by the World Wide Web Consortium, and Level AA is the level the Department of Justice adopted for the websites of state and local governments.

Designed to meet describes how the site was built and checked. No outside auditor has certified the site, and we do not claim that no barrier remains.

Not in detail. The Department of Justice says it has no regulation setting detailed web standards for businesses open to the public, but that the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to what those businesses offer on the web. The Department’s guidance points to existing technical standards, including WCAG, as help.

For state and local governments, a federal regulation does set the standard: WCAG 2.1 Level A and Level AA, under 28 CFR 35.200.

Every page is plain text sent from the server, so it reads completely with JavaScript turned off. Each page has one main heading and a question heading for each section, every table has a caption and header cells, every link says where it goes, and no words are set inside images.

• Every text color was measured against its background with the WCAG contrast formula, and every pair clears the Level AA minimum.
• A skip link at the top of each page jumps to the main content, and every link and button shows a visible outline when you reach it with the keyboard.
• The menu opens without JavaScript.
• If your device asks for reduced motion, nothing on the page moves.
• On a phone, each page fits the width of the screen, and a wide table scrolls inside its own box.

If anything here is hard for you to use, email [EMAIL] and we will fix it or give you the information another way. Tell us the address of the page, what you were trying to do and what got in the way. We answer within [N] business days.

If you know it, tell us the device, the browser and any assistive technology you use, such as a screen reader or a magnifier.