Accessibility Statement

1Our standard

We aim for thegulfsideassemblystory.com to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, Level AA, published by the World Wide Web Consortium. These guidelines explain how to make web content more usable for people with disabilities, including people who are blind or have low vision, are deaf or hard of hearing, or have motor, cognitive or learning disabilities.

2What we have done

• Every page has a clear heading structure, labelled regions and a “Skip to content” link.
• Menus, video players, forms and buttons work with a keyboard alone, and every control shows a strong, high-contrast focus outline. Focused items are never hidden under the page header.
• Text and important graphics meet AA color-contrast ratios, including small text placed over photographs.
• Pages reflow to a single column at 320 pixels wide (equivalent to 400% zoom) and adapt when you enlarge text in your browser settings.
• Photographs have text descriptions; decorative images are hidden from screen readers.
• The contact form has visible labels, marks required fields, explains each error in words and moves you to the first problem.
• Motion is kept to a minimum and turns off when your device is set to reduce motion.

3Video, captions and transcripts

• Every video on this site has a full, verified text transcript on the Video Transcripts page. Each video section also links to its transcript.
• The trailer transcript is descriptive: it includes the words, music and sounds, and describes the photographs, names and on-screen text, so it can be used in place of the video.
• Accurate English caption files have been prepared for the trailer and for the four Katrina 20 videos. The video players are set to turn on English captions automatically wherever captions are available.

4Known limitations

The trailer is hosted on Vimeo, and the Katrina 20 videos are produced and hosted on YouTube by the Steps Coalition. Until the new caption files are installed on those platforms, captions inside the players may be missing or machine-generated; the transcripts on this site are complete in the meantime. We have offered the Katrina 20 caption files to the Steps Coalition. A separate audio-described version of the trailer is under review; the descriptive transcript covers the same visual information. The Katrina 20 transcripts cover speech and sound but do not yet describe the pictures. Historical photographs and event flyers are shown as images; their key details, such as dates and places, also appear in the page text. Press kit downloads (PDF and ZIP) are provided for media use; if you need any part of them in another format, please ask.

5How we test

We check every page with automated accessibility testing at desktop and mobile widths, and by hand: keyboard-only navigation, focus visibility, text spacing, 200% text size and color contrast over images.

6Feedback and help

If you have trouble using any part of this website, or need information in a different format, please contact us. Tell us the page address and what happened, and we will work with you to provide the information.

For questions about the film itself, contact LS3 Studios at info@ls3studios.com or 504-434-0513.