Website Accessibility

We want everyone who visits the Wylie ISD website to feel welcome and find the experience rewarding. The Wylie Independent School District is committed to ensuring that people with disabilities have the same access to its electronic and information technologies as people without disabilities, including content made available through its websites.  

Wylie ISD is committed to compliance with the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 504, and Title II. Websites used by Wylie ISD strive to provide substantially similar functionality, experience, and information access to individuals with disabilities as it provides to others.

What are we doing?

To help us make the Wylie ISD website a positive place for everyone, we've been using the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for people with disabilities and user-friendly for everyone.

For your convenience, the WCAG 2.0 Guidelines state that digital content should be:

  1. Perceivable
    1. Provide text alternatives for any non-text content so that it can be changed into other forms people need, such as large print, braille, speech, symbols, or simpler language.
    2. Provide alternatives for time-based media.
    3. Create content that can be presented in different ways (for example simpler layout) without losing information or structure.
    4. Make it easier for users to see and hear content, including separating foreground from background.
  2. Operable
    1. Make all functionality available from a keyboard.
    2. Provide users enough time to read and use content.
    3. Do not design content in a way that is known to cause seizures.
    4. Provide ways for users to navigate, find content, and determine where they are.
  3. Understandable
    1. Make text content readable and understandable.
    2. Make Web pages appear and operate in predictable ways.
    3. Help users avoid and correct mistakes.
  4. Robust
    1. Maximize compatibility with current and future user agents, including assistive technologies.

The guidelines have three levels of accessibility (A, AA, and AAA). We’ve chosen Level AA as the target for the Wylie ISD website because not all required content can meet AAA-level compliance.

How are we doing?

We've worked hard on the Wylie ISD district and campus websites and believe we've achieved Level AA accessibility. We monitor the website regularly to maintain this; however, if you have a disability and do find any problems, please get in touch. In your email, please include the URL of the page causing concern along with a detailed description of the problems you are experiencing.

Let us know what you think

If you have enjoyed using the Wylie ISD website or have any trouble with part of it, please get in touch.