Westchester County Tourism & Film
Website Accessibility Statement
Prioritizing digital inclusion
In our effort to provide a fully accessible and optimized experience for our website visitors, Westchester County Tourism & Film has taken measures to help ensure an enhanced user experience, whether the website visitor is using assistive technologies such as a screen reader, magnifier, or other assistive technology to access the website.
This website is monitored and tested by AudioEye, a third-party provider of Web Accessibility testing and monitoring. AudioEye tools are accessed on VisitWestchesterNY.com by clicking on the icon located on the bottom right of every webpage within the site. AudioEye offers:
- Personalization tools
The personalization tools can be used to customize the visual display of the website. - Page elements navigation
Users can navigate easily through any page by element or content hierarchy.
Results of automated testing are reported to Westchester County Tourism & Film in the AudioEye platform. AudioEye remediates discovered issues or provides a Source Feedback Report (SFR) for Westchester County Tourism & Film to remediate the issue in collaboration with Simpleview, our website platform. To continually provide an enhanced experience, AudioEye continually refines its existing solutions.
AudioEye Trusted Certification
The Trusted by AudioEye badge represents a commitment to accessibility and digital inclusion. The AudioEye certification process involves automatic and, if applicable, expert review, remediation and user testing to increase conformance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, Level AA Success Criteria. AudioEye and Westchester County Tourism & Film continue to collaborate in an ongoing effort to help maintain conformance with the success criteria and help provide an accessible user experience for all website visitors.
The certification notes that Westchester County Tourism & Film has engaged AudioEye to help conform with WCAG2.2 Level, AA Success Criteria.
AudioEye uses the following web browsers and web-based assistive technologies in testing its solutions:
- The most recent and immediately prior two versions of any desktop standards-compliant web browser that represents over 5% market share.
- Web-Based Assistive Technologies such as screen readers (i.e., JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver), magnification, voice dictation, and keyboard-only navigation generally favored by the disability community.
- Web accessibility guidelines
Please see more information about WCAG compliance.
Improving the user experience for everyone
Westchester County Tourism & Film has leveraged the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 as reference to help ensure the web content made available from this website is more accessible for individuals with disabilities and user-friendly for everyone. These globally recognized best practices (as recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium) consist of three levels of accessibility measurement (A, AA, and AAA). AudioEye references Level AA of these guidelines in helping provide accessibility.
Feedback
Notice an accessibility barrier? Report an issue
AudioEye is available to assist website visitors with any issues accessing content and the various services and functions made available across Westchester County Tourism & Film. Website visitors are encouraged to report and troubleshoot web accessibility related issues.
Third-party sites
Throughout this website, we may make use of different third-party websites such as Facebook, Google Maps, X (formerly known as Twitter), LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Bandwango (Westchester Craft Beverage Trail), Issuu (digital brochures) and Threshold 360 (virtual tours) to spread news and information about Westchester County Tourism & Film’s products and services. These websites, which are not controlled by Westchester County Tourism & Film, may present challenges for individuals with disabilities that we are not able to control or remedy.
As made publicly available, here are the Accessibility Policies and Information provided from these third-party websites:
Google Maps Accessibility Policy
Instagram Accessibility Policy
Issuu Accessibility Statement and Pledge
Threshold 360 Product Accessibility Information
X (formerly known as Twitter) Accessibility Policy