Website Accessibility Compliance Services

The Vendor is required to provide website accessibility compliance services to ensure WCAG 2.1 level AA compliance prior to the federal deadline.
- Specialized requirements for school for the blind
• Quality alt-text and long descriptions: educational graphics must provide equal pedagogical value.
• Assistive technology optimization: implementation of aria landmarks and 'skip navigation' links.
• Non-visual error handling: forms must provide immediate spoken feedback via aria-live regions.
• Document and media remediation: all pdfs must be fully tagged; videos must include extended audio description.
• Braille compatibility: verification that web elements translate logically to refreshable braille displays.
- Sustainability and roadmap integration
• Inventory and tiered evaluation: create a full inventory of all educational technology products and third-party tools, identifying their current accessibility status.
• Procurement alignment: establish procedures to ensure all future third-party purchases meet WCAG 2.1 level AA standards before acquisition.
• Policy adoption: assist in drafting a formal digital accessibility policy and an organizational implementation plan.
• Continuous monitoring: develop a schedule for ongoing monitoring and "scaling" of accessibility practices across all departments.
- Technical scope and manual testing
• Automated scanning: initial audits to identify "low-hanging fruit" like color contrast and missing alt-text.
• Keyboard-only testing: verification of logical focus order and visible focus indicators.
• Mandatory manual screen reader scans: automated tools alone are insufficient.
• Perform manual scans using jaws, NVDA, and voiceover.
• These scans must verify:
o Reading order: ensuring content is read in a logical sequence (left to right, top to bottom).
o Announcement quality: checking that form labels, required states, and error messages are clearly announced.
o Interactive element clarity: verifying that links and buttons have distinguishable accessible names and don't rely on "click here" text.
o Dynamic content: ensuring modal dialogs trap focus and ajax-loaded content is announced.