Accessibility Statement for Career Connect At Home

Career Connect At Home is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone, and applying the relevant accessibility standards.

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. Career Connect At Home is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of Career Connect At Home. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on Career Connect At Home:

We aim to respond to requests and accessibility feedback within 5 business days.

Technical specifications

Accessibility of Career Connect At Home relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

  • HTML

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.

Limitations and alternatives

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of Career Connect At Home, there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Known limitations for Career Connect At Home:

  1. Live captions for videos: The videos provided by employers do not have live captions because employers are speaking extemporaneously, rather than from a pre-written script. Users who need captions can use YouTube's auto-caption feature. Please contact us at contact@kineticwest.com if you encounter an issue with captioning.

  2. Audio descriptions for pre-recorded video: Live videos with employers do not have live audio descriptions for pre-recorded video because the employer panels are structured as live conversations between participants, with little to no projected content or pre-recorded videos. We are asking employers to not use pre-recorded content or to describe any content projected during their presentation via screenshare. Please contact us at contact@kineticwest.com if you need a description of any projected content.

Assessment approach

Career Connect At Home assessed the accessibility of Career Connect At Home by the following approaches:

  • Self-evaluation, using Google Lighthouse and WCAG guidelines

Formal complaints

If you have feedback, concerns or questions about the accessibility of CareerConnect@Home, please contact the website managers at contact@kineticwest.com. We aim to respond to requests and accessibility feedback within 5 business days and to propose a solution within 10 business days.