Vermijo Community Garden — Website Accessibility Policy
Effective Date: September 16, 2026
Last Reviewed: September 16, 2026
Our Commitment
Vermijo Community Garden is committed to ensuring that our website, vermijocommunitygarden.earth, is accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities. Just as we believe our garden should be a welcoming, shared space for the whole community, we believe our digital presence should be too.
We are actively working to increase the accessibility and usability of our website and, in doing so, adhere to many of the available standards and guidelines.
Standards We Follow
We strive to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA, published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible to people with a wide range of disabilities, including:
- Visual impairments (blindness, low vision, color blindness)
- Hearing impairments
- Motor and mobility impairments
- Cognitive and learning disabilities
Measures We Take to Support Accessibility
Vermijo Community Garden takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of our website:
- Including accessibility as part of our mission and internal practices
- Providing clear, descriptive text alternatives for meaningful images
- Ensuring sufficient color contrast between text and background
- Structuring content with clear headings and logical reading order
- Designing navigation menus to be usable via keyboard
- Using descriptive link text rather than generic phrases like “click here”
- Ensuring forms (such as our newsletter sign-up) include clear labels
- Reviewing new content and pages for accessibility before publishing
Known Limitations
Despite our best efforts, some parts of our website may not yet be fully accessible. This can happen due to third-party plugins, embedded content (such as our event calendar or Instagram feed), or content that has not yet been fully reviewed. We are aware that ongoing work may be needed, particularly around:
- Accessibility of embedded calendar and event-registration tools
- Alt text coverage across older photo galleries
- Accessibility of externally linked content (such as ticketing pages for classes and workshops)
We welcome feedback in these areas and will prioritize fixes as we become aware of them.
Feedback and Contact Information
We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of the Vermijo Community Garden website. If you encounter an accessibility barrier, or if you need assistance accessing any content, please let us know:
Email: vermijogarden@gmail.com
Address: 2601 W. Vermijo Ave, Colorado Springs, CO
Please include the web page and a description of the issue, and we will do our best to identify and correct it, or to provide the information you need in an alternative format.
We aim to respond to accessibility feedback within a reasonable timeframe and, where appropriate, to provide the needed information through another channel (phone, email, or in-person) while a fix is being made.
Ongoing Efforts
Accessibility is an ongoing effort. As we add new content, features, and events to our site, we will continue to review and test for accessibility and update this policy as needed.