Accessibility
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We want everyone to be able to read americandefault.org and use its data, including people who use a screen reader, a keyboard instead of a mouse, magnification or captions.
The standard we aim for
We use the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, level AA, as our yardstick. That's the standard the U.S. Department of Justice points to in its guidance on web accessibility. Every build of the site checks our text colors against its contrast rules, and we check each page at phone width as we rebuild it.
Gaps we know about
Charts are the hardest part. A line or a map can be hard to follow with a screen reader or with low vision. Many of our pages also show the numbers in a table, and our research page has CSV downloads of the data behind the indexes, which you can open in any spreadsheet or screen reader.
Some older pages haven't been rebuilt in the current design yet and may fall short in places. We fix those as we rebuild each page.
Ask for another format
If something on the site doesn't work for you, or you need a chart's numbers, a page or a document in another format, write to contact@americandefault.org. Tell us the page and what you need, and we'll work with you to get you the information.