Accessibility Statement

Sierra Club Committed to Digital Accessibility

The Sierra Club is committed to maintaining an accessible website for all users by making our best effort to meet or exceed the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 Level AA.

We take the following measures to ensure accessibility of our website:

  • Include accessibility throughout our internal digital policies

  • Provide continual accessibility training for our relevant staff

  • Assign clear accessibility goals and responsibilities

We also engaged a vendor in December 2019 to run a full audit on the Sierra Club’s website to provide us with specific recommendations to assist in ensuring our compliance. Our website team also conducts annual assessments via

  • Self-evaluation performed by accessibility experts on staff

  • Automatic testing using variety of developer tools

Known Issues and Limitations

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of Sierra Club's website, we are aware of some outstanding issues. Below is a description of known issues or limitations. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Known limitations for Sierra Club's website:

  1. Social Share plugins: 

    1. Invalid aria attribute values on some embedded vendor services

    2. Lack of visible focus indicator on some embedded vendor share buttons

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of our website. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on Sierra Club's website by completing this form.

We try to acknowledge and respond to feedback within 5 business days. Resolving the issues identified may well take longer.


 Sierra Club first published this statement in January 2022, it may have been updated/edited since then.