Accessibility Statement

Our commitment

Ada and Children Upper Room International Academy is committed to making this website usable by as many people as possible, regardless of ability, device or the quality of their internet connection.

Accessibility was treated as a design requirement from the first line of code, not as a check performed at the end.

Conformance standard

This website has been designed and built to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at Level AA, which is the standard referenced by accessibility legislation in most countries, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in the United States.

We describe the site as substantially conformant: it was built to the standard and tested against it, but no website should claim perfection, and we would rather hear about a problem than pretend there are none.

What we have done

Keyboard access

• Every interactive element — links, buttons, form fields, the menu, the accordions — can be reached and operated with a keyboard alone.
• A visible focus outline follows you as you move through the page. It is never removed.
• A “skip to main content” link is the first thing you reach, so you do not have to tab through the navigation on every page.
• The mobile menu keeps focus inside itself while open, closes on the Escape key, and returns focus to the button that opened it.
• Wide tables can be scrolled with the keyboard and are announced as scrollable regions.

Visual design

• Every text and interface colour pairing used on this site was checked by calculation against the WCAG contrast formula before it was adopted. Body text exceeds the 4.5:1 requirement by a wide margin.
• Text is set in relative units and reflows properly when you enlarge it up to 200% or beyond.
• Pinch-to-zoom is not disabled anywhere on the site.
• Colour is never the only way information is conveyed.
• The site is also styled for Windows High Contrast mode.

Structure and screen readers

• Pages use real landmarks — header, navigation, main, footer — so a screen reader user can jump straight to the part they want.
• Headings run in a logical order and describe the content beneath them.
• Meaningful images carry descriptive alternative text; purely decorative artwork is hidden from assistive technology so it does not add noise.
• The current page is marked in the navigation so it is announced, not merely highlighted.
• Form fields have visible, permanently attached labels — never a placeholder standing in for a label — and errors are announced as they occur.

Motion

• Animation is used sparingly, and is limited to fades and small movements.
• If your device is set to reduce motion, all animation on this site switches off. Nothing moves, and no content is lost.
• Nothing on the site flashes, blinks, auto-plays or scrolls by itself.

Touch and pointer

• Tap targets meet the recommended minimum size with space around them.
• No feature requires a hover, a drag, or a multi-finger gesture in order to work.

Speed as an accessibility issue

A page that will not load is inaccessible, whatever else is right about it. Many of the families this school serves are on slow or intermittent mobile connections, and pay for data by the megabyte.

We therefore treated page weight as an accessibility requirement:

• Illustration is used instead of photography, at a small fraction of the file size, and stays sharp at any screen size.
• One small font file is served from our own server; body text uses fonts already on your device.
• There are no third-party scripts, no advertising, no tracking and no video.
• Once you have visited once, the site is stored on your device and will open again even with no connection at all.
• Space for images is reserved before they load, so the page does not jump around underneath you as you read.

Compatibility

This site is built with standard HTML, CSS and a small amount of JavaScript, and is designed to work with current versions of the major browsers on both desktop and mobile, together with the screen readers commonly used with them.

The site remains fully readable and navigable with JavaScript turned off. JavaScript adds the mobile menu, the scroll animations and the message composer; it is not required to read any page or to find any information.

Known limitations

We would rather list these than leave you to discover them:

• Wide tables on small screens. The bell-schedule tables scroll sideways on a narrow phone. They are marked as scrollable regions and can be scrolled from the keyboard, but a very wide table is inherently awkward on a small display.
• Third-party services. When you follow a link to WhatsApp or open your phone’s dialler, you leave this site. We cannot control the accessibility of those applications.
• Illustration in place of photography. The imagery on this site is illustrative rather than photographic. Descriptive alternative text is provided, but it cannot show you the real classrooms.

Tell us about a problem

If any part of this website is difficult or impossible for you to use, we want to know. Please tell us what you were trying to do, which page you were on, and what got in the way.

• Telephone: 701-809-8225
• In person: the school office, Blakays Town Community, Ganta City
• Office hours: 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM, Monday – Friday

We aim to respond to accessibility reports as quickly as we are able. If something on this website is stopping you from getting information about your child’s education, telephone the office and we will simply tell you what you need to know.

How this was assessed

This statement is based on a self-assessment carried out during the construction of the site. It included keyboard-only navigation of every page, verification of the semantic structure and landmarks, and arithmetic verification of every colour pairing against the WCAG contrast formula rather than visual judgement.

This statement was last reviewed on 6 September 2026.