This site is built to be usable by everyone.
Civic Pulse LLC · effective October 19, 2026 · questions: hello@civicstack.co
Draft · pending counsel review
Civic Pulse LLC wants CivicStack to work for people who use screen readers, keyboards, voice control, magnification, or who prefer less motion. Many of the people we build for are bound by Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act; we hold ourselves to the same standard.
The standard we target
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at level AA, which is also the basis of Section 508 and of most state procurement requirements.
What that means on this site
- Real HTML: landmarks, headings in order, lists, labelled form fields, and buttons that are buttons. The survey’s choices are keyboard-operable radio groups.
- Everything works with a keyboard alone, and the focused element is always visible.
- Text contrast meets AA everywhere, including the quieter grey text, which was darkened for that reason.
- Touch targets on phones are at least 44 pixels tall.
- Animation respects your system’s reduced-motion setting: counters, reveals, the message loop, and the moving marks in the header all stop.
- Decorative graphics are hidden from assistive technology; sample panels are labelled as illustrations; form errors are announced when they appear.
- Every page has a unique title; the fonts are served from our own domain and scale with your browser settings.
How it was checked
Self-assessed on October 19, 2026 with automated checks (Lighthouse accessibility score of 100 on desktop and mobile) and manual keyboard and screen-reader passes. It has not yet been audited by an independent third party; we intend to do that before the product itself launches.
Known limitations
- The sample product screenshot on the front page shows a bar chart of one vendor’s contract values by year. The totals are in text; the bars themselves are decorative and carry no extra information for assistive technology.
- Documents hosted on the government portals we link to are outside our control.
Tell us what is in your way
If any part of this site is hard to use, write to hello@civicstack.co and say which page and what happened. We answer within ten business days and fix what we can in the next release. If you need the information on this site in another format, ask and we will provide it.