ADA Compliance

Carol Phillips
Carol Phillips
District Technology Director & Adult Education Director


phillips@eldergrove.k12.mt.us

406-656-2893 x400
phillips@eldergrove.k12.mt.us

Welcome to our ADA Compliance page. Our entire website is under construction as we are in the process of updating all of our pages to be ADA compliant.

In the meantime if you need us to work on a specific page please contact the ADA Issue Report page. It is important to us that everyone in our community has equal access to all areas of our website.

We appreciate your patience with this process. 

Steps we have taken to work towards compliance:

  • ADA Compliance Department Head has been trained on the tools available within the CMS
  • ALT-Text is being placed on pictures within the website
  • Working on the PDF documents to make them compliant
  • Staff are being trained in ADA Compliance
  • CMS provider is working on adjusting contrast on various locations on website
  • 3/19/2018 - ADA Compliance Officer, Carol Phillips, attended an ADA Compliance training at MASS/META Conference.
  • 3/19/2018 - Updated some content on the website
  • 08/20/2018 - Reviewed policies posted on Forms & Links page to confirm we had the appropriate components
  • 9/14/2018 - Ran website through Web Accessibilty Evaluation Tool. Reviewed results and made adjustments to some pictures without Alt-Text.
  • 12/3/2018 - 12/4/2018 - Nathan Schmitz (Superintendent), Mike Rice (Principal), and Carol Phillips (District Technology Director) attended the MTSBA Legal & Technology Summit. This Summit included information regarding policy 4350 Accessibility & Nondiscrimination. It also covered information on ADA Compliance.
  • 12/4/2018 - Carol Phillips updated the ADA Department page
  • 03/22/2020 - Carol Phillips started working on transferring District Policy Manual to Google Docs and applying headings, etc
  • 04/15/2020 - Carol Phillips loaded up Google Doc version of District Policy Manual. Additional work will need to be completed to confirm compliance.
  • 11/18/2020 - Carol Phillips attended a brief presentation on OCR compliance, ADA Compliance, and Civil Right compliance. She will be reaching out to the presenter for more info regarding best templates for various types of documents
  • 11/19/2020 - Carol Phillips & Nathan Schmitz spoke about compliance through Schoolpointe and reviewed some of the work that needs to continue.

EG Policy 4350 - Accessibility & Non-Discrimination

The District is committed to ensuring accessibility of its website for students, parents, and members of the community with disabilities. All pages on the District's website will conform to the W3C WAI's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, Level AA conformance, or updated equivalents. Under District developed administrative procedures, students, parents, and members of the public may present a complaint regarding a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 504 related to the accessibility of any official District web presence which is developed by, maintained by, or offered through the District or third-party vendors and open sources.

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