Accessibility

Accessibility Compliance Statement

At westmoreland.crimewatchpa.com, we want our website to be accessible to all individuals, including those with disabilities. To achieve this goal, we are implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), as outlined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

By utilizing available tools and working with 3rd party agencies, we are aware of some accessibility issues on our westmoreland.crimewatchpa.com website. We are working through these issues and have included a list of the resolved issues below.

User-generated Content

The vast majority of content on westmoreland.crimewatchpa.com is generated by our law enforcement agency users (police departments, sheriff offices, district attorneys, etc). We are working with our users to help identify and resolve accessibility issues with their content.

Report an Accessibility Issue

Do you have an accessibility issue with westmoreland.crimewatchpa.com? Please contact us with details, and we should be able to fix it.

Accessibility Improvements (2024)

So far this year, we have fixed the following accessibility issues:

Change the notice box Follow modal's title to an h1 and utilize an aria-labelledby attribute
Use button element on follow modals
Remove redundant word from app download link image alt tags
Change the header to use a header element
Change nav element to div in header and remove its aria-label attribute
Change breadcrumb to use a nav element and add an aria-label to it
Change the icon links to use ul and li elements
Remove unnecessary aria-current attribute from login and my account buttons
Add aria-hidden attribute to login, search and map icons
Improve alt attribute on agency badge
On header svg elements, add role and aria-labelledby attributes with corresponding title tag
Change sub nav svg path color for WCAG on dark blue theme
Change color of chief, sheriff, da, etc name to meet WCAG
In the main menu, add aria-controls attribute and corresponding id to dropdown menus
Adjust muted text colors to meet WCAG standards
Change the Footer column links to use ul and li elements
Add alt tag to CW logo in footer
Clear redundant alt attribute on hero img
Add role and aria-label attributes to portal slideshow carousel
Add a screen reader msg to the hero carousel
Add aria-current attribute to active slideshow thumbnail button
change slideshow nav to button elements
Add aria-label attribute to slideshow thumbnail buttons
Add aria-label attribute to the slideshow prev next btns
Add aria-controls to news feed filter dropdown
Add screen reader text to news feed filter dropdown
Add role and aria-label attributes to news cards
On news feed cards, wrap title link in an h3
Add a -1 tabindex attribute to card elements and focus on the newest card element when paging
Add role and aria-label attributes to the items in the 'most wanted' widget
On 'most wanted' cards use an h4 instead of a div for WCAG
Add alt tag to 'most wanted' image cards
Add h1 to FAQ page
Wrap FAQ questions in h2
Change 'back to top' link color contrast on FAQ
Changed phone numbers into links.
Change 'Show more' buttons to actual button elements
Overwrite Drupal's element-invisible class to use display none
Added and altered heading tags for WCAG.
Merged semantic lists into two individual lists for WCAG.
Changed plain text phone numbers into telephone links for WCAG.
Changed table at bottom of page to an unordered list for WCAG request.
Change phone numbers into links for WCAG.
On webforms, add a 'autocomplete' attribute to supported components.
On webforms, add a 'required' attribute to any required components.
Add required attribute to the Follow modal's email input field and add an asterisk to its label and placeholder
Adjust autocomplete attribute value on the Follow modal's email input field
Add alt and title tag to follow button modal group logo
Change link color on warning messages to meet WCAG standards
Add button role attribute to Follow link
Add title and aria-label attributes to main menu horizontal scroll buttons
Adjust muted text colors to meet WCAG standards
Adjust muted text colors to meet WCAG standards
Use empty alt on slideshow thumbnail img
Add aria-label attribute to the 'In this section' navigation
Wrap the 'In this Section' widget with an aside tag
Inherit theme link color on FAQ