Accessibility

We want everyone to be able to use this site and join our programs, including people who navigate with a keyboard, a screen reader, or other assistive technology. We use the WCAG 2.1 AA guidelines as our target. We're a young, all-volunteer team, so we won't claim we meet every criterion yet, but here's what we actually do, and how to tell us where we're falling short.

What we build for

Full keyboard navigation: the menus, forms, and every interactive control on this site work without a mouse, with visible focus states throughout.

Color contrast we check against the WCAG AA thresholds for our palette, real text instead of text baked into images, and type that scales when you zoom.

Descriptive labels on form fields, clear error messages, and meaningful alt text on images that carry information.

Motion that respects your system settings: if you've turned on reduced motion, our animations switch off and the page renders its final state immediately.

How we check

We test our most-used flows (donating, requesting a workshop, and applying to volunteer) with a keyboard, and we use automated accessibility checks as we build.

Automated tools and our own testing don't catch everything, which is why the next part matters.

Tell us where we fall short

Accessibility is ongoing and we will not always get it right. If something on this site is hard or impossible to use, email greensiliconvalley27@gmail.com, tell us what happened and what you were using, and we'll fix it and follow up with you.