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Accessibility Statement

We want everyone who visits Bulloch County Schools' district and school websites to feel welcome and find the experience rewarding.

What are we doing?

To help us make our websites a positive place for everyone, we've been using the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for people with disabilities, and user friendly for everyone.

The guidelines have three levels of accessibility (A, AA and AAA). We’ve chosen Level AA as the target for our website.

How are we doing?

We've worked hard on this website and believe we've achieved our goal of Level AA accessibility. We monitor the website regularly to maintain this, but if you do find any problems, please get in touch.

What have we implemented?

Our websites are powered by Finalsite, which offers built-in accessibility tools for school websites and integration with AudioEye, an industry-leading Accessibility Compliance Technology. These tools are designed to help us reduce barriers to content for visitors with disabilities by implementing requirements that allow an inclusive, accessible online experience for users with assistive technology.

Examples of our websites' accessible designs include the following:

  • Easy and logical navigation
  • Access to information in a clear and consistent manner for screen readers
  • Keyboard accessibility
  • Legible fonts and high-contrast colors for easier readability
  • Use of AudioEye to help provide instant accessibility solutions for visitors to our websites.

Our websites incorporate federally mandated Section 508 compliance standards and best practices recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2) (Level AA) for web accessibility. Some of these practices include:

  • Text alternative fields for every non-text element when appropriate.
  • Designed web pages so that all information conveyed with color can also be understood without color.
  • Designed web pages so that all content presented without an associated style sheet does not lose information or structure.
  • Identified row and column headers in data tables.
  • Keyboard accessibility, where all functionality is available through the use of a keyboard and without the use of a mouse.
  • “Skip to main content” link at the top of each page permitting users to skip repetitive navigation links.
  • Mechanisms for the user to pause, stop or hide moving or scrolling information that starts automatically, lasts more than 5 seconds and is presented in parallel with other content.
  • Online forms are designed allowing assistive technology to access the information, field elements and functionality required for completion and submission of the form, including all directions and cues.
  • Color contrast accessible for those with low vision and color blindness.

Let us know what you think

If you enjoyed using our website, or if you had trouble with any part of it, please get in touch. We'd like to hear from you in any of the following ways: