Accessibility
What we have built to WCAG 2.1 AA, where we fall short, and how to tell us.
Last updated 9 November 2026
What we are aiming for
Amir Institute wants every family to be able to use this site, whatever device they are on and however they navigate. We build to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at level AA.
What has been done
- Contrast. Text color was measured against the pixels actually rendered behind it, including the photographs behind page headers, not just against the color values in the stylesheet. Body and heading text meets or exceeds the 4.5:1 minimum throughout.
- Keyboard. Every control — menus, activity buttons, forms, the quick-exit button — can be reached and operated without a mouse, and the focus outline is always visible.
- Headings. Heading levels run in order so that screen-reader users can navigate by structure rather than scrolling.
- Touch targets. Interactive controls are at least 44×44 pixels.
- Motion. If your device is set to reduce motion, animations stop. Nothing is hidden behind an animation, and every activity still works with motion off.
- Without JavaScript. If scripts fail to load, the content stays readable — headings, descriptions and schedules are all in the page itself.
- Images. Photographs and illustrations carry alternative text describing what they show.
Display settings
Every page carries a Display settings button in the bottom-left corner. It lets you change the text size, switch to high contrast or monochrome, use a more readable typeface, open out the letter and line spacing, highlight every link, stop animation, enlarge the cursor and turn on a reading guide. Your choices are remembered on your device.
It is worth being plain about what that panel is and is not. It is a set of viewing preferences. It is not one of the accessibility overlay products that claim to make a site conformant: it adds no hidden labels, runs no "screen reader mode", and changes nothing about what assistive software reads. Those products are opposed by most blind users' organisations precisely because they sit on top of problems rather than fixing them, and can interfere with the software someone already relies on. The conformance described above comes from how these pages are built. The panel simply lets you turn the type up.
Pages are tested to reflow without a horizontal scrollbar at the largest text setting, which is also what happens if you use your browser's own zoom at 200%.
Where we know we fall short
Some documents linked from this site, including flyers and the school calendar, are PDFs produced elsewhere, and we cannot promise that every one of them is tagged for screen readers. Ask us and we will send you the contents in whatever format works for you.
Tell us
If any part of this site is hard to use, we want to hear about it, and we would rather fix it than have you work around it. Call (919) 237-3380 or email admin@amirinstitute.org, and tell us the page and what happened.