Built to be used by everyone.

Our Standard: WCAG 2.1 Level AA

giyou.org is designed to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at the AA conformance level. This is the standard referenced by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act, and the European Accessibility Act (EAA).

What we’ve built in

• ✓Keyboard navigation — every interactive element is reachable with the Tab key and operable with Enter / Space.
• ✓Skip-to-content link — press Tab once on any page to jump past the navigation.
• ✓Screen reader support — semantic HTML, descriptive ARIA labels, and live region announcements for form errors and status changes.
• ✓Image alt text — every meaningful image describes what it shows; decorative images are marked so screen readers skip them.
• ✓Color contrast — body text meets the 4.5:1 contrast ratio against backgrounds; large text meets 3:1.
• ✓Reduced motion— auto-playing carousels and animations honor your operating system’s “prefer reduced motion” setting and pause when you hover or focus them.
• ✓Touch target size— buttons and links are sized to at least 44×44 pixels for comfortable use on touchscreens.
• ✓Forms with proper labels — donation, contact, and newsletter forms have programmatically associated labels and announce errors to assistive technology.
• ✓Language attribute — the page language is declared so screen readers pronounce content correctly.

Known limitations

We work hard to be accessible, but no website is perfect. The following areas are known to fall short of full WCAG 2.1 AA conformance and are on our active improvement list:

• •Embedded third-party content— YouTube videos and Stripe checkout pages are governed by those services’ own accessibility implementations, which we cannot directly modify.
• •Interactive map— the impact map on our homepage uses Leaflet, which has limited screen reader support. All map content is also presented as a text list of locations alongside the map.
• •PDF documents— some legacy PDF reports linked from our transparency page may not be fully tagged for screen readers. We’re re-publishing these as HTML pages over time.

Found a problem?

If you encounter an accessibility barrier on giyou.org, please tell us. We treat accessibility reports as urgent and aim to respond within 5 business days.

Formal complaints

If you’re not satisfied with our response and you’re in the United States, you may also file a complaint with the US Department of Justice ADA Complaint Portal.