Accessibility

The standard

This site targets WCAG 2.2 Level AA, which is the standard Colorado HB21-1110 applies to public entities in the state. The DDA is a component unit of the City of Grand Junction, so the same obligation reaches its public-facing sites.

How it was checked

• Every route is tested with axe-core against the WCAG 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 A and AA rule sets, at 1280 by 900 and at 390 by 844. It ships with zero violations.
• The walk, the block rail, and the search box are operable by keyboard alone, with a visible focus ring on every control.
• Every interactive target is at least 24 by 24 CSS pixels; the search field and its button are at least 44 pixels tall.
• The block rail, the walk, and the category filters work with JavaScript switched off, because every one of them is a real link to a real page.
• Motion respects the reduced-motion setting; nothing moves on its own.
• Each sculpture photograph carries alt text naming the work, the artist, and where it stands, so a screen-reader user gets the same join a sighted visitor gets.

What has not been checked

No accessibility baseline was measured against the DDA’s current live sites. Both downtowngj.org and gjcreates.org sit behind a host firewall that refuses automated clients, so an audit could not be run without the DDA’s cooperation. Stoa did not attempt to work around that block. A full audit of both current sites is the first deliverable of the engagement, not a guess made in advance of it.

The 78 archived board documents are shown here as records. Remediating scanned PDFs to an accessible standard, or replacing them with accessible HTML, is scoped work and is named as such in the proposal rather than assumed away.

Telling us something is wrong

A production site carries a monitored route for accessibility problems with a named owner and a stated response time. This site is an evaluation artifact and has no monitored inbox; please raise anything you find through the solicitation’s own contact.