Commitment
This site and the Waterwell IQ platform are built to WCAG 2.1 Level AA. Public agencies have a compliance deadline and vendor-supplied applications get no exemption, so this is a design requirement rather than a remediation project.
What that means in practice
- Every interactive element is reachable and operable by keyboard, with a visible focus state.
- A skip link takes you past the navigation to the content.
- Color is never the only way information is conveyed; severity is carried by text and shape as well.
- Diagrams carry a real description of what they show, not a filename.
- Data tables have proper headers and captions.
- Motion respects the reduced-motion setting in your operating system.
- Wide tables scroll inside their own container, so the page itself never scrolls sideways.
- Text reflows without loss of content down to 320 pixels.
Known gaps
- Scanned historical documents in the platform are made searchable by OCR, but a scan of a 1976 typewritten log will never be as good as native text. Extracted values are always available as real text alongside the image.
- Web fonts currently load from a third-party host. Self-hosting is planned.
Tell us
If any part of this site or the platform is difficult to use with assistive technology, email [email protected]. We treat it as a defect, not a request, and we will tell you what we are doing and when.