Accessibility Statement

Draft. This text is being reviewed by an attorney and may change before SunriseHours launches. Questions: robert@sunrisehours.com.

Our commitment

[SunriseHours LLC] wants everyone who uses SunriseHours — students, school staff, workplace supervisors and families — to be able to use it fully, including people who use assistive technology such as screen readers, screen magnifiers, voice control or a keyboard alone.

The standard we apply

We design and test SunriseHours to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA. That is the standard the U.S. Department of Justice's ADA Title II rule sets for public schools and the web services they provide through vendors. We are working toward WCAG 2.2 Level AA, which builds on 2.1.

Where we stand today

Evaluation in progress. We have not yet completed a formal accessibility evaluation, so we do not yet claim that SunriseHours fully meets WCAG 2.1 AA. A formal accessibility review and an Accessibility Conformance Report (VPAT 2.5Rev, WCAG edition) are scheduled for [date]. We will publish the report on this page when it is done and update it with each major release.

Known limitations

We will list here what the formal review finds, each with a planned fix date. Areas we already expect to check closely (to confirm):

• Charts (for example the pace chart and analytics charts): every chart needs a text alternative that gives the same information. — to confirm
• Calendar grids (the student week view and month calendar, the supervisor verification grid, the coordinator's weekly grid): how they read with a screen reader. — to confirm
• PDF files that SunriseHours creates (student records, reports, reflections, evaluations): whether they are tagged for screen readers. The same information is available on screen and, for reports, as a spreadsheet. — to confirm
• Time limits: administrator sessions end after 2 hours without use, and emailed sign-in codes expire after 10 minutes. A new code can always be requested. Whether people are warned before a session ends. — to confirm

What we have done so far

• Phones first for students. Every student screen is built for phones and tested at 375 pixels wide, the width of a small phone.
• Built-in options that each person can set for themselves, and that follow them to any device:
  • adjustable text size;
  • high contrast;
  • color-blind status symbols, so a day's status is shown by a shape as well as a color, never by color alone;
  • Light, Dark and Match-my-device themes.
• A legible typeface. SunriseHours uses Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, a typeface designed for readers with low vision.
• One website for everyone. Students, supervisors, staff and families use the same accessible web pages. There is no separate app with different behavior.

These options help many people, but they do not replace meeting the standard. The formal review will check the whole product.

Compatibility

SunriseHours is designed to work with:

• current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari on computers;
• current browsers on iPhone and iPad (Safari) and on Android phones and tablets (Chrome);
• installing it on a phone's home screen, where it opens like an app.

After the formal review we will list the screen readers and other assistive technologies we tested with.

Technical requirements

SunriseHours relies on HTML, CSS and JavaScript, with WAI-ARIA where needed. To use it you need:

• JavaScript turned on;
• cookies allowed for sunrisehours.com (to stay signed in);
• access to your email for sign-in codes, unless your district uses Google, Microsoft or ClassLink sign-in.

Feedback and getting help

If anything in SunriseHours is hard or impossible for you to use, please tell us. We want to know.

• Email: accessibility@sunrisehours.com
• Phone: [business phone]
• Mail: [business mailing address]

Please tell us the page or task, what happened, and the device, browser and any assistive technology you use. You do not need to know the technical cause.

• We will reply within 2 business days.
• While we fix the problem, we will get you the information or help you finish the task another way. For example, we can send the information in another format or help a coordinator enter it for you.
• School staff, students and families can also contact their district's ADA or Section 504 coordinator.

Legal context

Under the Department of Justice's ADA Title II rule, public school districts must make the web content they provide — including content provided through vendors like us — meet WCAG 2.1 AA by April 26, 2027 (public entities serving 50,000 people or more) or April 26, 2028 (smaller ones), and we aim to meet it well before then.

About this statement

This statement was written on [date] and last reviewed on [date]. We review it at least once a year and whenever we publish a new Accessibility Conformance Report.