Accessibility

This site targets WCAG 2.2 Level AA. What follows is a description of the specific measures in the build, so you can judge it rather than take a statement on trust.

Structure and navigation

• Semantic landmarks on every page: header, navigation, main and footer.
• A skip link to the main content, which becomes visible on keyboard focus.
• Exactly one h1 per page, with headings nested in order. This is asserted by an automated crawl of every route, so it cannot regress unnoticed.
• Breadcrumbs on every page below the homepage, matching the structured data.
• A complete HTML site map linked from the footer.

Keyboard

• Every interactive element is reachable and operable by keyboard.
• Focus indicators are high contrast, and driven by a CSS variable so that dark sections switch to a light focus ring rather than losing it against the background.
• The mobile navigation drawer traps focus while open, closes on Escape, and returns focus to the button that opened it.
• The FAQ uses native disclosure elements, so it works without JavaScript.

Forms

• Every field has a programmatically associated label.
• Errors are associated with their field through aria-describedby and marked with aria-invalid.
• Submission results are announced through a live region.
• A failed submission never discards what you typed.
• Fields declare appropriate input types and autocomplete hints.

Visual design

• Text colours meet or exceed 4.5:1 against their background. The measured ratio is recorded beside each colour token in the source, so a future change cannot quietly break it.
• Base body text is 16px, and the layout reflows without horizontal scrolling at 320px.
• The page remains usable at 200% zoom.
• Interactive targets are at least 44px in their smallest dimension.
• Wide tables and diagrams scroll inside their own container rather than forcing the page sideways.

Motion

The only animation on the site is a 150 millisecond colour transition on interactive elements. Where a visitor has asked their system to reduce motion, transitions and smooth scrolling are switched off entirely.

Images and diagrams

Diagrams are inline SVG with a title and a text description, so the information in them is available to a screen reader rather than locked inside a picture. Decorative graphics are hidden from assistive technology.

Known limits

• Automated testing cannot confirm everything. Manual keyboard and screen-reader passes are part of the release process, but no site is ever finished being tested.
• Where this site links out to municipal or provincial documents, we do not control the accessibility of those documents. Several are PDFs.

Tell us if something does not work

If any part of this site is difficult to use with the tools you rely on, we want to know — that is a defect, and it will be treated as one. Use the quote form and describe what happened — it reaches the same place.