ACCESSIBILITY

North Central Ohio Educational Service Center is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone and applying the relevant accessibility standards.

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) define requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. North Central Ohio Educational Service Center is partially conformant with WCAG 2.0 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of the North Central Ohio Educational Service Center website. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on our website: 

We try to respond to feedback within 1 business day.

Limitations and alternatives

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of North Central Ohio Educational Service Center's website, there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Known limitations for North Central Ohio Educational Service Center:

The website is undergoing a redesign for accessibility issues in 2022: Some images and design layers are not visible and have no text alternatives. Some documents are not accessible when using the browser to view PDFs, Excel, and Word files. We are working with the Office for Civil Rights to correct these errors in design. Please report issues to website@ncoesc.net.

Assessment approach

North Central Ohio Educational Service Center assessed the accessibility of our website by the following approaches: 

  • Self-evaluation
  • External evaluation

Formal approval of this accessibility statement

This Accessibility Statement is approved by the North Central Ohio Educational Service Center Board of Governors.

Formal complaints

We aim to respond to accessibility feedback within 2 business days and to propose a solution within 10 business days. You are entitled to escalate a complaint to the North Central Ohio Board of Governors, should you be dissatisfied with our response to you.