At YEVA - Youth Empowerment Voices Association, we are dedicated to ensuring that our website is accessible to people with disabilities. We strive to provide an inclusive and welcoming online environment for all individuals, including those with disabilities. Our commitment to accessibility is an essential part of our mission to empower and support diverse youth in Calgary. We continually work to enhance the accessibility of our website to ensure that everyone can access the information, resources, and opportunities we offer.
ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT
This statement was last updated on October 16th 2025
What web accessibility is
Web accessibility refers to the inclusive practice of ensuring that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the web, as well as contribute to it. An accessible website provides an equivalent user experience for individuals with disabilities, promoting equal access to information and functionality.
Accessibility adjustments on this site
In alignment with our commitment to accessibility, we have implemented various adjustments on our website to comply with guidelines, aiming for a good conformance level. These adjustments include optimizing the site for assistive technologies, ensuring clear content structure, providing alternative text for images, and maintaining colour contrast and readability.
- We have also taken steps to ensure that our website is compatible with assistive technologies, such as screen readers and keyboard navigation. Our efforts include leveraging the Accessibility Wizard to identify and address potential accessibility issues, setting the language of the site, defining clear heading structures, and ensuring accessible multimedia content.
Declaration of partial compliance with the standard due to third-party content
As a non-profit organization serving diverse youth, we acknowledge that certain pages on our site may contain third-party content that could impact accessibility. We are committed to addressing such instances and endeavor to achieve full compliance with accessibility standards across all website content.
Requests, issues, and suggestions
We value feedback and are committed to addressing any accessibility issues on our site. If you encounter any challenges or have suggestions for improving the accessibility of our website, please contact our email.