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Accessibility Statement

Free For Charity exists to serve nonprofits and the communities they reach — including people with disabilities. We are committed to making freeforcharity.org accessible to the widest possible audience, and to modeling the accessibility standard we want every charity website we build to meet.

Our conformance target

We aim to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA. Semantic HTML, keyboard operability, sufficient color contrast, text alternatives for images, and screen-reader-friendly navigation are requirements in our development standards, not afterthoughts.

How we test — on every change

Accessibility checks are enforced in our continuous-integration pipeline, so a change that introduces a violation cannot be merged:

  • Automated component testing — every component test suite runs jest-axe, which fails the build on WCAG violations at the component level.
  • Full-page scans— our end-to-end test suite runs axe-based WCAG 2.1 AA scans across the site’s public routes in a real browser before each release.
  • Lighthouse monitoring — accessibility scores are tracked in CI on every pull request.

Automated testing catches many but not all barriers. We treat human reports as the most valuable signal we have.

Known limitations

  • Some third-party embeds (for example, donation forms and the Candid transparency seal) are served by external providers; we choose providers with accessible widgets but cannot fully control their markup.
  • Older documents and legacy content migrated from the previous site may not yet meet our current standard. We remediate these as they are identified.

Report a barrier

If any part of this site is difficult or impossible for you to use, please tell us — you will be helping every visitor who comes after you. Contact us through the details on our Contact Us page and include the page address and a short description of the problem. We prioritize accessibility reports and will respond as quickly as we are able.

For the charities we host

The same standards apply to the website templates Free For Charity provides to nonprofits. If your organization’s FFC-built site has an accessibility problem, report it the same way — fixes to shared templates benefit every charity on the platform.