Accessibility

We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA. These guidelines are the benchmark referenced by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and by Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Our current status is partial conformance: most of the site meets Level AA, and the specific areas we know fall short are listed below. The site has not yet been through a formal third-party audit, so we describe this as our own assessment rather than a certification.

Every page carries an accessibility button in the bottom-left corner. It opens a panel where you can change how the site renders in your browser: text size, high contrast, extra text spacing, a simplified system font, underlined links, a stronger keyboard focus outline, and reduced motion.

Your choices are stored on your own device and apply the moment you set them. They are a convenience layer, not a substitute for the site being built accessibly in the first place, and we do not treat them as a conformance measure.

• A skip link so keyboard users can jump straight past the navigation to the page content.
• Visible focus outlines on every interactive element, so you can always see where you are.
• Animation, parallax and the scrolling legislative ticker all stop automatically when your operating system requests reduced motion.
• Form errors are announced to screen readers, summarized at the top of the form, and linked to the field that needs fixing.
• Text and background color combinations are checked against the WCAG AA contrast minimum.
• Headings, landmarks and page titles are structured so screen reader users can navigate by section.
• Images that carry meaning have text alternatives; purely decorative images are hidden from assistive technology.
• The interactive state maps are operable by keyboard: every state is a labelled button you can reach with Tab and activate with Enter or Space, and the same information is also available as text on the State Updates and Members pages.

We would rather name these than let you discover them:

• Conference registration and agenda are embedded from Whova, a third-party service. We do not control that code and cannot guarantee it meets Level AA. If it blocks you, contact us and we will register you directly.
• Some older content and documents published before this site was rebuilt may not fully meet the standard. We correct these as we find them.
• The site has not had a formal external accessibility audit. We test with automated tooling and manual keyboard checks, which catch much but not all of what a full audit would.

If any part of this site prevents you from doing what you came to do, we want to hear about it — that report is the most reliable way we find real problems.

Please use the contact form on our Contact page, or write to us at NERUCA, 1395 Route 539, Little Egg Harbor Twp, NJ 08087. Tell us the page, what you were trying to do, and the browser or assistive technology you use, and we will get back to you and give you the information or service another way while we fix the underlying issue.