ACCESSIBILITY & HELP
Access belongs
in the design.
Learning should be usable by people with different abilities, devices and ways of reading. This page explains what is available now and what still needs work.
Our accessibility goal.
Literacy for a Lifetime is working toward the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 Level AA for this website. Accessibility is an ongoing design and review task, not a one-time badge.
This website has not had a complete conformance evaluation. We do not claim WCAG conformance, certification or universal compatibility. This statement covers the four pages on this institutional website. The separate More in Reach campaign, downloadable documents, sign-in service and other linked websites require their own reviews.
Choose how you read.
- Use a keyboard: press Tab to move forward through links and controls, Shift + Tab to go back, and Enter to open a link. The first link, “Skip to content,” goes past the repeated header.
- Open the small-screen menu: press Enter or Space on “Menu.” Tab moves through its links. Escape closes it and returns focus to the Menu button. The menu is designed to avoid keyboard traps; our review scope and remaining tests are described below.
- Make text larger: use your browser’s Zoom control or pinch to zoom on a touch device. Text is not locked to a fixed viewport scale. Layouts adapt to narrow screens.
- Use your reading tools: headings, named navigation areas and a main-content landmark support screen-reader navigation. Browser reading mode and text-to-speech may help where your browser offers them.
- Print: use the browser’s Print command for a simplified view. Browser-generated PDFs are not claimed to be fully tagged or accessible.
Support built into the pages.
- Descriptive page titles, English language metadata, ordered headings and a predictable reading order.
- Native links and buttons, visible keyboard focus on light and dark backgrounds, and generously spaced navigation targets.
- Text descriptions for informative images; decorative marks do not interrupt screen-reader reading. The hero is labeled as an AI-generated illustration.
- Readable text and disclosure sizes, reviewed text/background color pairs, and links identified by more than color in reading content.
- No flashing content, autoplay audio or timed activities. Reduced-motion settings disable smooth scrolling.
- Core reading and navigation remain available if JavaScript is disabled. No accessibility overlay or separate paid tool is required.
What has been checked, and what has not.
Review dates: November 6–10, 2026. Source checks cover page structure, language, image descriptions, local links, keyboard focus behavior, reduced-motion rules, readable disclosure text and color combinations. Limited browser checks covered narrow and wide layouts, text spacing, navigation without JavaScript, and the main menu and skip-link keyboard interactions. Actual browser zoom and a full keyboard review are still outstanding. These checks do not constitute a complete accessibility audit.
A complete independent audit, testing with people with disabilities and hands-on testing with VoiceOver, NVDA, JAWS, TalkBack, switch control and speech-input software are still needed. Browser inspection of headings and controls is not the same as testing those tools.
The site uses standard HTML and CSS with a small JavaScript menu enhancement. Modern browsers are the intended environment; older browsers and every device combination have not been tested. This institutional website is currently in English. No reviewed translation is available here yet.
External websites, hosting sign-in and future downloadable materials may present barriers outside these pages. Future forms, payment tools, media, translations or AI features will need accessibility checks before release.
If something gets in your way.
For accessibility help or information in another format, email hankdwilliams@me.com. This is the interim contact while a dedicated nonprofit mailbox is being set up.
Include the page address, what you were trying to do, what went wrong and the format that would help. Your device, browser or assistive tool can help us reproduce the problem, but you do not need to disclose a disability, diagnosis or other private information.
We welcome reports of barriers and suggestions for improvement. No guaranteed response time is promised.