The Colonie Library is committed to providing a fully accessible website experience for all users of all abilities, including those who rely on assistive technologies like screen readers, screen enlargement software, and alternative keyboard input devices to navigate the web.
Ongoing Efforts to Ensure Accessibility
We follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.1 as our guiding principle for determining accessibility. These are internationally agreed-upon standards that cover a wide range of recommendations and best practices for making content useable. As we add new pages and functionality to our website, all designs, code, and content entry practices are checked against these standards.
Website accessibility is an ongoing process. We continually test content and features for WCAG 2.1 Level AA compliance and remediate any issues to ensure we meet or exceed the standards. Testing of our website is performed by our team members using industry-standard tools such as WAVE and the Accessibility Checker WordPress Plugin, color contrast analyzers, keyboard-only navigation techniques, and Flesch-Kincaid readability tests.
Accessibility Features On Our Website
The following is a list of items we have included in our website to improve its accessibility:
- New PDFs are manually created using the current best practices guidance on accessible PDFs.
- Alt text is added as needed. Decorative images have null alt text.
- Videos have audio tracks and closed captions.
Where We’re Improving
In our efforts to bring our website up to standard, we are targeting the following areas:
- We are working to ensure that PDFs generated by automated processes are also accessible.
- We are working to add descriptive audio to videos where appropriate.
This is part of our broader effort to make everyone’s experience at the Colonie Library a welcoming and enjoyable one. Please note that while we make every effort to provide information accessible for all users, we cannot guarantee the accessibility of third party websites to which we may link.
Accessibility Support Contact
If you have any difficulty accessing the documents published on this website or experience other accessibility barriers in our online locations, please contact us or call the library at 518-458-9274 and ask for someone on the website team. We welcome your feedback and will do our best to assist you.