Accessibility Statement

We’re committed to easy access for everyone

We want everyone who visits the Your School website to feel welcome and find the experience rewarding.

Granada Hills Charter (GHC) is committed to making our website as accessible as possible to everyone, including those with visual, hearing, cognitive and motor impairments. We're constantly working towards improving the accessibility of our website to ensure our community can readily access the educational services we provide, both in our physical locations and on our website.

What are we doing?

To help us make the GHC's website a positive place for everyone, we've been using the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for people with disabilities, and user friendly for everyone. The guidelines have three levels of accessibility (A, AA and AAA). We’ve chosen Level AA as the target for the GHC website.

The School has undertaken efforts to comply with the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, Level AA (“WCAG-2.0 AA”), a set of guidelines adopted by a private group designed to maximize accessibility of web content. We routinely engage and utilize a third party accessibility platform through our website provider, to conduct an accessibility audit of our websites and provide us with specific recommendations that will assist us in ensuring that our web presence is in conformance with the WCAG 2.0 AA.

Third-Party Websites

Please note that our website may link to, or interface with, third party websites that we do not control. These third-party vendors may not have undertaken the efforts that GHC has to comply with WCAG-2.0 AA standards. In order to maximize accessibility with our community, we are working with our vendors to encourage them to voluntarily comply with these standards. We have also engaged in discussions with our regulatory agencies and elected officials to discuss the need to adopt clear guidelines that apply to both educational institutions and vendors alike.

As the law and accessibility standards continue to change and we strive to deliver the most up-to-date content online, please understand that our efforts to improve online accessibility are ongoing. We encourage you to report any accessibility issues you may encounter by contacting us at communications@ghcTK12.com or at (818) 360-2361 ext. 392 so we can assist you. If you do encounter an accessibility issue, please be sure to specify the webpage and we will make all reasonable efforts to make that page accessible. We also encourage you to contact us to determine if any alternative communication methods or accessibility formats are available.

We thank you for your assistance in enhancing the accessibility of our website and we look forward to serving your educational needs.

Accessibility Tips

How To Use The Translation Feature On The Site

How To Zoom In On Your Screen

Some people like to zoom into the screen or web browser in order to see things better. Here are a few ways of doing it depending on your setup:

On Windows, press the Windows key and plus sign (+) at the same time to zoom in. You can also use the "Magnifier" application under "Accessories".
On Mac, go to "System Preferences", open "Universal Access" and select the "Seeing" tab. Check the box under "Zoom" to "On".
On your Apple device, tap "Settings", then "General", then "Accessibility". Tap the "Zoom" button and toggle it "On".

Another trick is to use "Ctrl" ("Cmd" on Mac) plus the plus (+) or minus (-) keys when you're in a web browser.

How To Change The Colors Or Fonts On The Page

Some people like to change colors or fonts to see words more clearly. Most major web browsers have options to do this:

In Internet Explorer, go to "Tools", then "Internet Options", on to "General". From here, select "Colors, Fonts, or Accessibility".
In Mozilla Firefox, choose "Options", then "Content", then finally "Fonts & Colors".
In Safari, select "Preferences", "Appearance" tab, and then hit the "Select…" button next to the font fields.

In Chrome, go to "Preferences", activate the "Show advanced settings" link, go to the "Web content" heading and change the "Font size", "Customize fonts" in other ways, or set default "Page zoom".

We recommend a mixture of settings like enlarging font size and zooming into the browser for a better experience.

How To Find And Use A Screen Reader

Screen readers are text-to-speech software that allow people to read and interact with content in different ways. Many people who cannot perceive what is on the screen will use them to allow audible access to web content. Capital One designs and codes for accessibility. We strive to ensure that our content is accessible to screen readers.

There are free options available including NVDA for Windows and VoiceOver for Mac. What we recommend is JAWS for Windows. You can use this with your favorite web browser.

Screen readers accept input in a variety of ways, but one of the most common forms is through your keyboard. By pressing the down arrow in JAWS, for example, you are able navigate through items on the page. JAWS will also accept Braille input.

How To Use Accessibility Tools On Mobile

There are a lot of great features right on your smart phone. iOS and Android alike provide many tools to help you access what you love. Let’s have a look at a few of those tools.

VoiceOver for iOS and TalkBack for Android are the screen readers that come built-in. To turn on VoiceOver, go to "Settings", then "General", to "Accessibility", and then turn "VoiceOver" on. You can set the “Accessibility Shortcut” to “VoiceOver” from the "Accessibility" page in order to triple-click the "Home" button to toggle VoiceOver on and off. TalkBack has a similar feature.

"Zoom", "Magnifier", "Invert Colors", "Color Filters", and "Reduce White Point" are other features and tools on iOS that you can use. These are also available through the “Accessibility Shortcut”.

How are we doing?

We've worked hard on the GHC website and believe we've achieved our goal of Level AA accessibility. We monitor the website regularly to maintain this, but if you do find any problems, please get in touch.

If you would like to request an ADA accommodation or provide ADA feedback or comments, our communications department is available to help with your accessibility-related requests and accept relay calls.

For assistance with these ADA requests and feedback please contact us at communications@ghcTK12.com or call (818) 360-2361 ext. 392.

Our Community

It's important to us to be active and involved in the accessibility community. Granada Hills Charter (GHC) is a Gold Ribbon Award-winning school for special education and our co-teaching program, supporting students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) in the general education setting. Our services and programs have been designed to meet a variety of students’ educational and social-emotional needs including Autism, intellectual disability, specific learning disability, emotional disturbance, deaf or hard of hearing (DHH), speech and language impairment, vision impairment, and other health impairment eligibilities. A service provider for LAUSD to offer specialized support for the Deaf or Hard of Hearing (DHH) and an alternate curriculum for students with intellectual disabilities (ID), we are grounded in the philosophy that all students can learn.