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Assessibility Statement

The Village of Barrington is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone, and applying the relevant accessibility standards

CONFORMANCE STATUS

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. The Village of Barrington website aims to be  conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. However, there may be some parts of this website that do not fully conform to the accessibility standard, particularly any information embedded from a third party. Please see the Limitations and Alternative section below for details and examples.

ADDITIONAL ACCESSIBILITY CONSIDERATIONS

ADA Section 508

FEEDBACK

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of the Village of Barringtin Website. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on the Village of Barrington Website:

COMPATIBILITY WITH BROWSERS AND ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY

The Village of Barrington Website is designed to be compatible with the following assistive technologies:

  • Recent versions of modern web browsers.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Accessibility of the Village of Barrington Website 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.

LIMITATIONS AND ALTERNATIVES

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of the Village Website, there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions (if applicable). Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Known limitations for the Village Website:

  1. Contrast ratios for content embedded from third party websites may not meet WCAG contrast requirements 
  2. Videos embedded from third party websites (YouTube) may not have captions available.

 

ASSESSMENT APPROACH

The Village of Barrington assessed the accessibility of this Website by the following approaches:

  • External evaluation

FORMAL COMPLAINTS

Please email us about any accessibility issues you experience while browsing our website so that we may review and address your findings.