Article Sections

• Accessibility Summary
• PeopleGrove Completed VPAT
• Providing Accessibility Feedback

Overview

This document is intended for any PeopleGrove client, potential client, or end user who wants to learn more about how PeopleGrove handles compliance with accessibility guidelines.

Accessibility Summary

PeopleGrove is committed to accessibility. For PeopleGrove, accessibility goes beyond just compliance. Our company's mission is to help connect every student and alumni to the people and resources they need to achieve career and personal success. We cannot deliver on that mission without providing equitable access to our services to people of all backgrounds.

This document provides an overview of our commitment to making PeopleGrove accessible to every user. We take the following steps to continuously improve the Platform’s accessibility:

• Developer training on accessibility best practices
• Use of third party applications to test the accessibility of the PeopleGrove platform
• Testing for accessibility during the PeopleGrove QA process
• Training of the PeopleGrove support team on how to provide support to users
  with disabilities

PeopleGrove is constantly improving our level of accessibility. Our QA team uses Totally
(http://khan.github.io/tota11y/) to test releases.

We strive to make all of our software fully Section 508 compliant. PeopleGrove believes that
our platform is currently compliant​. Please see the completed VPAT form for details.

PeopleGrove Completed VPAT

PeopleGrove​ ​Accessibility Conformance Report
WCAG Edition
VPAT® Version 2.3 – June 2020

Name​ ​of​ ​Product:​ ​PeopleGrove​ ​Platform

Product Description: PeopleGrove is an online software platform for mentoring, networking, and community engagement. The software platform is built for students, alumni, and staff at universities and other institutions.

Date:​ ​6/1/2020

Questions? ​Please click the turquoise question mark icon in the bottom right corner of your platform to reach our Support team.

Notes: 

Since PeopleGrove supports branding customization and admin-generated content (from our clients), we require cooperation in ensuring that modifications or additional content is accessible. It is noted below where we need client cooperation in ensuring we meet accessibility standards. This document currently covers only user facing (student, alumni) sections of the website. While we strive for compliance with every admin tool we provide, some tools are complex.

If some part of our application is not accessible, we are here to help. We handle accessible issues with admin tools on a case by case basis and provide support to any admins with disabilities via email or phone. Our Support center answers accessibility issues within 1 business day.

Evaluation Methods Used: PeopleGrove evaluates during our development and deployment process using various tools including ChromeVox and Tota11y. All new development must pass accessibility review before deployment.

Standards / Guidelines

This report covers the degree of conformance for the following accessibility standard/guideline:

Terms

The terms used in the Conformance Level information are defined as follows:
• Supports: The functionality of the product has at least one method that meets the criterion without known defects or meets with equivalent facilitation.
• Partially Supports: Some functionality of the product does not meet the criterion.
• Does Not Support: The majority of product functionality does not meet the criterion.
• Not Applicable: The criterion is not relevant to the product.
• Not Evaluated: The product has not been evaluated against the criterion. This can be used only in WCAG 2.0 Level AAA.

WCAG 2.x Report

Table 1: Success Criteria, Level A

Notes:

Table 2: Success Criteria, Level AA

Notes:

Legal Disclaimer (PeopleGrove)

PeopleGrove strives to make our website as accessible as possible for everyone and believes that the above assessment has been completed accurately, but we cannot guarantee 100% accuracy given the scope of this evaluation. The results have not been audited by a 3rd party. While we strive for AAA standard, as a large application with many views, there may be some areas requiring improvement.

We cannot guarantee that accessible navigation will be available with no issues, but we do commit to answering any accessibility concerns promptly submitted by clicking the green question mark icon in the bottom right corner of any page on your PeopleGrove site. PeopleGrove also cannot be responsible for branding modifications and content uploaded by platform administrators at our clients. We require cooperation in ensuring accessibility standards are followed (i.e. if an admin uploads a video, it needs to have captions). 

Providing Accessibility Feedback

PeopleGrove welcomes feedback from students, alumni, and administrators on accessibility matters, and we are committed to improvement. Please submit a ticket to our support team by clicking the green question mark icon in the bottom right corner of any page on your PeopleGrove site if you need any assistance.

If you are performing an audit of PeopleGrove's accessibility, we appreciate your structured feedback so that we can continue to improve our software.

In order to make your feedback actionable, please provide the following information if you are able. Often, a spreadsheet/document with these columns can be very helpful!

• Current URL where you experienced an issue
• Description of the issue
• Screenshot of the issue, if applicable
• Applicable WCAG sections
• Severity (Low, Medium, High)
• Proposed Solution

Current URL	Description	Screenshot	WCAG	Severity	Proposed Solution
https://school.peoplegrove.com/home	All images missing alt text		1.1.1	High	Add alt-text to all the images on this page