Accessibility Statement

Last updated · 2026-06-11 · Draft pending review

1. Our commitment

Location NW Group wants everyone — including people who use screen readers, keyboard navigation, magnification, or other assistive technology — to be able to research neighborhoods, browse listings, and reach us through this Site. Accessibility is part of how the Site is built and reviewed, not an afterthought, and the same commitment extends to how we serve clients off-line: if any part of the Site is hard for you to use, we will work with you by phone, email, or in person to get you the same information another way.

2. Conformance target

We aim to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, Level AA. The Site is currently partially conformant: most content meets the standard, while some third-party and interactive elements described in §4 do not yet fully conform.

3. What the Site does today

• A "Skip to content" link is the first focusable element on every page, so keyboard users can bypass the navigation.
• Pages use semantic HTML landmarks (header, main, footer) and a logical heading order, so screen readers can move by structure.
• A visible focus indicator follows keyboard focus on links, buttons, and form fields.
• Animations — including map flourishes, image pans, and scroll effects — are disabled automatically for visitors whose system requests reduced motion (prefers-reduced-motion).
• Editorial photographs and illustrations carry descriptive alternative text; decorative imagery is hidden from assistive technology.
• Color choices in our design system are checked for contrast against their backgrounds.
• Forms use labeled fields and return clear confirmation after submission.
• The Site works at 200% browser zoom and adapts to small screens without horizontal scrolling.

4. Known limitations

We know about the following gaps and are working on them:

• Interactive maps. The property-search map and regional maps are visual, pointer-oriented interfaces. All listings shown on the map are also available in the adjacent list view, which is the accessible path to the same information.
• MLS listing photos. Listing imagery arrives from the originating MLS feeds, which rarely include meaningful photo descriptions. We label these images with the property address and context, but we cannot author true alternative text for photography we receive from the feed.
• Embedded social media. Video and post embeds from YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok render inside those platforms' own players, whose accessibility (including caption quality) we do not control. Where we produce the video ourselves, we caption it before publishing.

5. Compatibility

The Site is built with standards-based HTML and CSS and is tested in current versions of major browsers. It is designed to work with screen readers and other assistive technologies that support modern web standards; it does not require a mouse, JavaScript-disabled fallbacks exist for core content, and no content flashes more than three times per second.

6. Feedback — tell us, we'll fix it

If you hit a barrier anywhere on this Site, we want to know. Call (509) 999 - 8987 or use the contact form and mention "accessibility" so it reaches us quickly. We aim to respond within one business day, and if something is broken we will both fix it and get you the information you were after in whatever format works for you.

7. Ongoing review

Accessibility checks are part of our development process, and this statement is reviewed when the Site gains new features — most recently on the date shown at the top of this page.

◦ This document is a working draft. Final language is subject to review by Location NW Group's broker-attorney and Amplify Real Estate Services compliance before launch.