Information can be sensed
Text alternatives, captions, contrast, structure, zoom, and formats that do not depend on one sense alone.
Accessibility statement
Everyone should be able to take part.
A Future Here includes people who navigate, read, hear, understand, or participate in different ways.
We are working to make the campaign website, digital materials, events, and participation paths usable by people with disabilities. When something does not work, we want to know—and we will provide another path whenever reasonably possible.
Our working standard
Accessible by design, tested in practice, improved through feedback.
We use the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, version 2.2, Level AA, as the campaign’s voluntary working benchmark. WCAG organizes accessibility around four principles: content should be perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust.
This statement describes a continuing effort. It is not a certification that every page, document, integration, or third-party service is fully conformant at every moment.
Accessibility is not a widget added at the end. It is part of how the campaign writes, designs, codes, tests, publishes, and responds.
Controls can be used
Keyboard access, visible focus, reasonable target sizes, enough time, reduced motion, and no keyboard traps.
Content makes sense
Plain language, predictable navigation, clear instructions, helpful errors, and consistent labels.
Assistive technology can interpret it
Semantic HTML, correct names and roles, valid labels, status messages, and compatibility with current tools.
How the website should work
Practical access across the campaign site.
The campaign’s design system is intended to support people using a keyboard, screen reader, voice control, magnification, captions, browser zoom, reduced-motion settings, or other assistive technology.
Keyboard and focus
Menus, links, forms, buttons, accordions, and dialogs should be reachable in a logical order without a mouse, with a clearly visible focus indicator.
Headings and landmarks
Pages should use one clear main heading, meaningful section headings, a main-content landmark, and consistent navigation structure.
Contrast and resizing
Text and controls should maintain readable contrast. Browser zoom, text resizing, and mobile pinch zoom should remain available.
Images and media
Meaningful images need useful alternative text. Decorative images should be ignored by assistive technology. Videos need captions and important audio needs a transcript.
Forms and errors
Fields need visible labels, instructions, programmatic names, clear required-field indicators, accessible errors, and confirmation that an action succeeded.
Motion and timing
We avoid flashing content, respect reduced-motion preferences, limit unnecessary animation, and provide reasonable time for forms and other timed interactions.
The accessibility delivery test
Every public path should work before it is promoted.
A page is not ready merely because it looks correct. The campaign should test the actual task a voter, volunteer, donor, reporter, or resident is expected to complete.
Find it
Can someone identify the page, heading, navigation item, and next action with a screen reader, keyboard, magnifier, or voice control?
Understand it
Are the instructions, button names, dates, costs, form requirements, and consequences written plainly and consistently?
Complete it
Can the person submit the form, donate, volunteer, request a sign, join an event, or contact the campaign without a mouse or inaccessible puzzle?
Recover from an error
Does the page explain what went wrong, identify the field, preserve entered information when reasonable, and provide a clear way to continue?
Use another path
If a third-party tool fails, is there a phone, email, accessible document, or staff-assisted alternative that reaches the same campaign outcome?
Content and alternative formats
Campaign information should not be trapped in one format.
When a website page, PDF, video, image, social post, or event handout creates a barrier, the campaign will make reasonable efforts to provide the same essential information in another usable form.
Web pages
Important campaign information should be available as structured HTML whenever practical rather than only as an image, scanned document, or social-media post.
- Descriptive page titles and headings
- Readable link text
- Lists and tables marked up correctly
- No instructions based only on color, shape, or screen position
PDFs and downloadable files
New PDFs should be tagged, ordered, labeled, and tested. When a file cannot be remediated promptly, we will provide an accessible HTML version, text version, or another reasonable alternative upon request.
- Real text rather than image-only scans
- Document title and language
- Headings, reading order, links, and table headers
- Alternative text for meaningful graphics
Video and audio
Campaign video should include synchronized captions. Important audio-only material should have a transcript. Auto-generated captions should be reviewed when the content is substantive or time-sensitive.
- Speaker identification when needed
- Meaningful sound information
- Readable caption timing and placement
- Audio description or a text alternative when visuals carry essential meaning
Request another format
You may request large print, plain text, an accessible electronic file, captions, a transcript, or another reasonable format for campaign material.
Include the page or document, the format that works for you, and any deadline. Do not send unnecessary medical information.
Beyond the website
Campaign participation should have an accessible path.
A Future Here is a working-city coalition. People should be able to attend, volunteer, host, ask a question, receive information, and support the campaign without being excluded by a preventable barrier.
Please request event or volunteer accommodations as early as practical. We will make reasonable efforts and will explain promptly if a requested method is unavailable so we can identify another workable approach.
Events and venues
We will ask venues about step-free access, accessible entrances, seating, restrooms, parking, transit, sound, lighting, and service-animal access, and will publish useful access details when available.
Communication access
Requests may include captioning, an interpreter, assistive listening, written questions, advance materials, a transcript, or another communication aid.
Volunteer roles
We will work to identify a role that fits the volunteer’s access needs, including remote, seated, phone, text, data, writing, hosting, research, or other campaign work.
Canvassing and field
Field activities should include clear route information, realistic physical expectations, paired or remote alternatives, safety guidance, breaks, and a way to report access concerns.
Language and cognitive access
Plain language, advance agendas, predictable formats, readable materials, and language assistance can make participation more usable for many people.
Third-party tools
The campaign is responsible for choosing better tools and providing a fallback.
Some campaign functions may be delivered through outside platforms. Examples include donation processing, forms, email, text messaging, video, maps, scheduling, event registration, social media, and embedded content.
Selection
Before adding a major tool, we should review keyboard access, labels, focus order, errors, screen-reader behavior, zoom, contrast, and mobile use.
Remediation
When an integration creates a barrier we control, we will work to configure, replace, repair, or remove it based on severity and the importance of the task.
Equivalent path
If a third-party service remains inaccessible, contact the campaign. We will provide a reasonable alternative method to complete the campaign task when possible.
A link to or integration with another service does not mean the campaign controls every part of that service. The third party’s own accessibility statement, support process, and legal obligations may also apply.
Known limitations
We will say what is not working.
Publishing known barriers creates a clear path to correction. The list should identify the affected page or tool, the barrier, the current workaround, the owner, and the expected next update.
An empty list does not mean the website is barrier-free. It means no issue has been entered in this public log yet.
No known critical barrier is currently published in this log.
This is not a certification of full conformance. Please report anything that prevents or materially limits your access.
Report a barrier
A clear feedback path is part of accessibility.
A report can be short. Tell us what you were trying to do, what happened, and how we can reach you. Information about your device or assistive technology can help, but it is optional.
We acknowledge the report
We aim to acknowledge accessibility requests within two business days.
We identify the immediate path
For a time-sensitive action, we will first try to provide the information or complete the campaign task through another accessible method.
We investigate and assign the fix
The campaign will identify whether the issue sits in content, code, design, configuration, a document, or a third-party service.
We close the loop
When contact information is provided, we will share the outcome, workaround, expected remediation, or reason another solution is required.
Testing and maintenance
Automated checks help. Human use decides whether the path works.
The campaign’s accessibility review should combine automated tools with manual testing. Automated scans alone cannot determine whether language is understandable, alternative text is useful, focus order makes sense, captions are accurate, or a complete user task is workable.
Routine page checks
- Heading hierarchy and landmarks
- Keyboard navigation and visible focus
- Link and button names
- Color contrast and non-color cues
- Zoom, reflow, responsive layout, and target size
- Alt text, captions, and document structure
Task-based checks
- Join the email list
- Submit a priority or volunteer form
- Request a sign or host an event
- Complete or abandon a donation
- Navigate the full site with a keyboard
- Use representative pages with a screen reader
Review moments
- Before the first public launch
- After a template, header, or footer change
- When a new form or vendor is installed
- Before major mail, fundraising, or event pushes
- After a reported barrier
- At least annually during the campaign
Public results test
- Action: identify and remediate the barrier
- Owner: assign the campaign or vendor responsible
- Cost: identify the staff, vendor, or replacement need
- Deadline: publish or communicate the next update
- Result: confirm the task can be completed
Campaign information and government information
This website is not an election-administration website.
The campaign can provide its own platform, biographies, event information, and campaign materials in another accessible format. It cannot change voter registration, ballot status, vote-center access, government records, or an official agency website.
For official election access
Contact the public agency administering the election for an accessible ballot, registration accommodation, voting-location information, language assistance, or another official election service.
Accessibility questions
Clear answers about the campaign’s responsibility.
Does the campaign claim the website is fully WCAG conformant?
No. The campaign uses WCAG 2.2 Level AA as a working benchmark and is committed to testing and improving the site. This statement is not a certification that every page, document, or third-party integration fully conforms at every moment.
Can I use the website without a mouse?
Core navigation, links, buttons, accordions, and forms should be usable with a keyboard and should show visible focus. Please report any keyboard trap, missing focus indicator, unreachable control, or illogical focus order.
Can I request a campaign document in another format?
Yes. Ask for plain text, large print, an accessible electronic document, captions, a transcript, or another reasonable format. Identify the material, preferred format, and any deadline.
Can I request an accommodation for a campaign event?
Yes. Contact the campaign as early as practical and identify the event, date, and accommodation requested. The campaign will make reasonable efforts and will work with you on another path if the exact request is unavailable.
Do I need to disclose a disability or diagnosis?
No diagnosis is required to report a website barrier or ask for a campaign communication in another usable format. Share only the information needed to understand the barrier or requested accommodation.
What happens when a third-party donation or form tool is inaccessible?
Report the problem. The campaign will first try to provide an equivalent way to complete the task, then evaluate whether the integration can be configured, repaired, replaced, or removed.
Does the campaign use an accessibility overlay?
The campaign does not treat an overlay or toolbar as a substitute for accessible code, content, testing, vendor selection, and remediation. Browser and assistive-technology settings should remain available.
Who handles accessible ballots and official voting accommodations?
The responsible public election agency handles voter registration, ballot accessibility, vote centers, ballot return, language assistance, and other official election services. This campaign website is not an election-administration website.
Access is part of belonging.
If a campaign page, document, event, video, form, or tool is keeping you from participating, tell us what is happening and what path would work better.
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