Website Accessibility

Flathead Valley Community College serves a diverse community that values varied experiences and perspectives and strives to include everyone. FVCC strives to ensure that people with disabilities have access to the same services and content available to people without disabilities, including services and content made available through the college’s website.

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines 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. FVCC Website is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

Reasonable Accommodations 

FVCC strives to create an accessible and inclusive environment for individuals with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations as required by Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973,  The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and The Montana Human Rights Act ensuring equal access to programs, facilities, services, and activities for our students and employees.

For assistance regarding reasonable accommodations, please contact Disability Support Services at disabilitysupport@fvcc.edu or (406)756-3376 or visit our disability support page. Current and prospective employees can contact Human Resources at  HR@fvcc.edu.

Web Accessibility Improvement Procedures

The following procedures have been implemented to support accessibility throughout our site.

Regular scans and maintenance:

  • The Web Team performs a monthly, automated accessibility scan on the website using Accessibility Checker, creating a task ClickUp, evaluating the concerns and providing and recording corrective action. 
  • Accessibility-related emails, phone calls or other contacts are recorded on a spreadsheet for action by the Web Team.

If a complaint or issue is raised:

  • A task would be created in our project management system, the issue would be verified, and the Web Manager would be notified.
  • The Web Manager would review the complaint and determine the technical support personnel to be attached to the issue.
  • The appropriate personnel would be assigned and notified of the issue.
  • Personnel would review the complaint and correct the issue(s) found.
  • Personnel would test corrected page(s) with accessibility checking tools.
  • Resolution notes would be added to the task and email the user who reported the issue of the correction.

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of FVCC Website. We try to respond to feedback within 2 business days. Please send feedback to website@fvcc.edu.