Site Accessibility

Compliance and Website Accessibility

Spalding University makes every effort to facilitate and improve the accessibility and usability of the Spalding.edu website, to ensure that web content and services are accessible to users of all abilities. Spalding is committed to applying relevant accessibility standards to improve user experience.

Accessibility Standards

We make every effort to follow the guidelines provided by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2) at the Double A standard. These accessibility guidelines help us work to make content accessible to a wide range of users. The colors, typography and structure of our website were built with accessibility in mind.

Accessibility relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

• HTML
• WAI-ARIA
• CSS
• JavaScript

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.

Guidelines for Spalding’s website accessibility are summarized below, in accordance with WCAG’s core accessibility principles.

Perceivable

• Providing text alternatives for non-text content, and avoiding images made of text.
• Providing captions and alternatives for videos and other multimedia.
• Making it easier for users to see and hear content with appropriate color contrast and text size.

Operable

• Making the site functional from a keyboard.
• Giving users time to read and use content.
• Avoiding content known to cause physical reactions, such as blinking or rapid transitions.
• Helping users navigate content easily, by using appropriate page titles, appropriate use of HTML headings, a search function and a site map.

Understandable

• Text is readable and easy to understand.
• Using human language in site content; avoiding indeterminate language.
• Content appears and functions in appropriate ways and uses consistent navigation.

Robust

• Working to ensure our site is compatible with various assistive technologies.

Limitations

Our efforts to maintain website accessibility and usability are ongoing. Full accessibility depends on a variety of site elements, including:

• site configuration choices
• content authored by users
• the plugins active on the site
• code customization
• uploaded media

Below is a description of known limitations. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Quality of user generated content: The Spalding.edu site is maintained by a set of editors. Through ongoing training and regular site audits, we strive to ensure the quality of content from site editors.

Document accessibility: In certain areas, our site contains links to PDF documents. Updating the accessibility of these documents is an ongoing process.

Third-party content: This site links to certain forms or pages hosted by third-party websites. Accessibility conformance may vary due to the standards of these external sites.

Images: Many, but not all, of the images on the site include alternative text descriptions.