Accessibility Statement for Westtown School

This is an accessibility statement from Westtown School.

Westtown School strives to ensure that its services are accessible to people with disabilities. Westtown School has invested a significant amount of resources to help ensure that its website is made easier to use and more accessible for people with disabilities, with the strong belief that website accessibility efforts assist all users and that every person has the right to live with dignity, equality, comfort and independence.

Measures to support accessibility

Westtown School takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of www.westtown.edu:

• Appoint an accessibility officer and/or ombudsperson.
• Employ formal accessibility quality assurance methods.
• Makes UserWay’s Web Accessibility Widget available which is powered by a dedicated accessibility server.
  • Enabling the Accessibility Menu: The accessibility menu can be enabled by clicking the accessibility menu icon that appears on the corner of the page. After triggering the accessibility menu, please wait a moment for the accessibility menu to load in its entirety.

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. Westtown School is fully conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Fully conformant means that the content fully conforms to the accessibility standard without any exceptions.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of www.westtown.edu. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on www.westtown.edu:

• Phone: 610-399-0123
• E-mail: accessibility@westown.edu
• Address: 975 Westtown Road West Chester, PA 19382

We try to respond to feedback within Send an email to report an issue. Reported issues will be reviewed and responded to within 72 hours.

Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology

www.westtown.edu website is designed to be compatible with the following assistive technologies:

• Chrome with JAWS on Windows.
• Firefox with NVDA on Windows
• Safari with VoiceOver on Mac.

www.westtown.edu is not compatible with: Mobile operating systems older than 5 years

Technical specifications

Accessibility of www.westtown.edu 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
• CSS
• JavaScript
• PHP
• Jquery
• Ajax
• Database: SQL

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

Limitations and alternatives

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of www.westtown.edu, there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Known limitations for www.westtown.edu:

1. Third party elements: 3rd party elements used:
   • Instagram plugin
   • UserWay
   • HubSpot
   • Subdomains:
     1. Myschoolapp
     2. Canto
     3. GiveCampus

Westtown does not have editorial control over these 3rd party elements to remediate. If at any point you find an issue with the 3rd parties, please let us know so we may inform them and work with them to accommodate the issue.

Assessment approach

Westtown School assessed the accessibility of www.westtown.edu by the following approach:

• External evaluation

Evaluation report

An evaluation report for www.westtown.edu is available this Evaluation Report.

Formal complaints

Send an email to report an issue. Reported issues will be reviewed and responded to within 72 hours.

Date

This statement was created on November 2024