Office of the Administrator

Accessibility Statement

Accessibility Statement PLAIN LANGUAGE NOTICE CAP Rev. 12.4

Responsible office

Office of the Administrator

Effective

On first reading

Published

July 29, 2026

Plain language, no Bureau voice

This site is a lot of long-form reading, so it has to be readable. These are the commitments, and the known gaps.

What is in place

1. No comprehension depends on motion. There is effectively no animation on this site. Nothing appears, hides, or moves in a way that carries meaning. prefers-reduced-motion is respected regardless.
2. Documents are never inverted. Long-form artifacts render as dark text on an ivory page in both the dark and light presentations. Only the site furniture changes. This is deliberate: reversed body text is harder to read at length, and these documents are long.
3. Keyboard access throughout. Every interactive control is a real button, link, or form control. There is a skip link to the record at the top of every page, and focus outlines are visible and not suppressed.
4. Structure is real. Headings are properly nested, tables use header cells, and metadata blocks are description lists rather than layout tables.
5. Redactions are announced. Each black bar carries a text label describing it as redacted and pointing to its log entry, so a screen reader does not read a row of block characters.
6. Wide content scrolls inside itself. Registers and metadata tables scroll horizontally within their own container. The page body never scrolls sideways.
7. Relative units. Text scales with your browser and operating system settings. Zooming to 200 percent does not break the layout.
8. No external scripts. Nothing third party loads, so nothing third party can break assistive technology on these pages.

Known limitations

1. The forms on this site are rendered documents, not interactive forms. The numbered fields are ruled boxes for reading and printing. They are not inputs and cannot be filled in on screen. This is intentional, because the site collects nothing, but it means a screen reader encounters them as text rather than as a form.
2. The seal image is decorative in the masthead and carries a short alternative text. It contains lettering that is not reproduced in full in the alt text.
3. The interactive products in Citizen Services require JavaScript. Without it, the surrounding explanatory content still reads, but no receipt or assessment result is produced.
4. Contrast has been checked against the seal palette in both presentations. If you find a combination that fails, it is a defect, not a design choice.

Reporting a barrier

If something here is unusable, that is a bug and it takes priority over any joke on the page. Raise it through correction requests and describe what you were trying to read or do.