Using
this site.

This site should be usable by everyone at Purdue, including people who browse with a keyboard, a screen reader, magnification, or reduced motion turned on. We build against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at level AA as our target.

We are a student team, not a dedicated accessibility practice, and we have not had the site formally audited. Treat this as a description of what we have done and what we know is imperfect, rather than a certificate.

Every page is built from ordinary HTML landmarks and headings, so a screen reader can navigate by structure rather than reading everything top to bottom. Interactive elements are real buttons and links, reachable and operable by keyboard, with a visible focus outline.

Text is checked against the AA contrast ratio on the colors we use, including the gold on cream that runs through the site. Form fields have real labels rather than placeholder text standing in for one, and errors are announced rather than only shown in red.

Animation respects the reduced motion setting in your operating system: content still appears, it simply stops moving. Images we add carry alternative text, and images that carry no information are marked as decorative so a screen reader skips them instead of describing them.

Pages are usable at phone width and when zoomed, and nothing depends on hovering or on a precise drag.

The event calendar is a grid, and grids are difficult to navigate with a screen reader. Every calendar month is also rendered as a plain list underneath with the same events, times and locations, and that list is the more usable route.

Some event artwork is uploaded by our own team, and alternative text depends on whoever added it writing a good description. When it is missing the image is marked decorative rather than given a meaningless label, but that does mean information in a poster can be lost. If that happens to you, tell us and we will put the detail in the page text.

We have not tested with every combination of browser and assistive technology, and we have not had an external audit.

Please tell us. Email TheAnvil@purdue.edu with the page and what went wrong, and we will fix it. You do not need to know why it is broken or use the right terminology; a sentence saying what you were trying to do is plenty.

If something on this site is stopping you registering for an event, email us and we will register you directly. Nobody should miss an event over a page we built wrong.