FFSC Website Accessibility Efforts

An accessible website allows visitors with disabilities to browse the site with the same or a similar level of ease and enjoyment as other visitors.

To make this website accessible, we rely on the capabilities of the system on which the site is operating, tools which help us determine where the site might not be compliant, and our evolving understanding of WCAG guidelines.

Accessibility Adjustments on this Website

When building this website, we have:

• Used various tools to determine font size and color contrast ratios for text and neighboring elements.

• Used our web platform's Accessibility Wizard to find and fix potential accessibility issues

• Set the language of the site to US

• Attempted to maintain consistent heading structures on all of the site’s pages

• Implemented text and background color combinations that meet the required color contrast in WCAG 2.1 guidelines, to at least a level of AA.

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In 2025 we will also be working to:

• Set the content order of the site’s pages

• Add alternative text to images

• Make videos and audio files on the site accessible (e.g., with audio transcripts available)

• Avoid looping motion effects

• Prevent videos from playing automatically when our system permits it, and/or allow users to stop video effects

• Test the website with assistive technologies such as screen readers and keyboards 

Areas of Partial Compliance with the Standard

The accessibility of certain pages on the site may vary, depending on two main factors:

1. We sometimes use applications that belong to external platforms (ticketing, shopping, video, etc.) which own and manage their own user interfaces, and we have no direct control over certain features.

2. We are a volunteer-run organization. Over time, some volunteers who contribute content to this website might not consistently follow the standards. We don't always have volunteers available to fix such content in a timely manner. (If you're an FFSC member with expertise in website accessibility, and you're interested in volunteering to assist with such maintenance, please let us know!)

Requests, Issues and Suggestions

If you are personally affected by an accessibility issue on this website, or if you need further assistance, you are welcome to contact our website volunteers via any of the methods on our Contact FFSC page, or come to one of our Minister Meetings to chat in person. We'll do our best to address or mitigate such issues.