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Accessibility statement

Everyone who runs county athletics should be able to use ChalkLine. Here's our target, how we work toward it and how to tell us when we miss.

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  1. Our commitment
  2. What we build in
  3. Where we are
  4. Report a barrier

Our commitment#

ChalkLine is public infrastructure for county athletics. Athletic directors, coaches, council members and office staff of every ability need to use it, on a desk computer or a phone at the edge of a field. We design and test for that from the start.

Our target is WCAG 2.1 level AA, the standard most public agencies use, including under the U.S. Department of Justice's 2024 rule for state and local government web content.

What we build in#

  • Keyboard use. ChalkLine is designed so every action can be done with a keyboard alone, in a logical order. Dialogs and menus keep focus inside while open and return it when they close.
  • Visible focus. The element you're on always shows a clear focus outline.
  • Status never by color alone. Every status (confirmed, pending, postponed, conflict) has a text label or icon as well as a color, so it reads the same for people with color vision deficiency and in grayscale.
  • Reduced motion. If your device asks for reduced motion, ChalkLine turns off smooth scrolling and decorative animation.
  • Readable text and contrast. Text is designed to meet AA contrast ratios, pages work when zoomed to 200%, and screens adapt to a phone without sideways scrolling.
  • Plain language. Exact dates (“Tue, Oct 13, 6:00 PM”), buttons that say what they do, and errors that say how to fix them.
  • Assistive technology. Pages use real headings, landmarks and labelled form fields, so screen readers can navigate them.

Where we are#

ChalkLine is new, and we haven't yet had an independent accessibility audit. We check our own work with keyboard-only testing, automated checks and screen-reader spot checks, and we fix what we find. There may still be barriers we haven't caught.

Known limits: the video guides don't have captions or audio descriptions yet; each one has a written, step-by-step guide beside it. An accessibility conformance report (VPAT) is planned.

Report a barrier#

If anything in ChalkLine is hard or impossible for you to use, tell us at accessibility@chalklineathletics.com. Please include:

  • the page or screen (a link helps);
  • what you were trying to do and what happened;
  • the device, browser and any assistive technology you use.

We'll reply within 2 business days. If a barrier stops you from doing your job, we'll help you get it done another way (for example, making a schedule change for you on your request) while we fix it. You can also ask your county's athletic council to raise it with us.