Digital Accessibility Statement

Digital Accessibility Statement for DMAS Agency Website

The Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS) is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone, and applying the relevant digital accessibility standards.

Measures to support digital accessibility

DMAS takes the following measures to ensure digital accessibility of the DMAS Agency Website:

Include digital accessibility throughout our internal policies.
Include digital accessibility in our procurement processes per Code of Virginia.
Appoint a digital accessibility officer and/or ombudsperson.
Provide continual digital accessibility training for our staff.
Assign clear digital accessibility targets and responsibilities.
Employ formal digital accessibility quality assurance methods.
Use of accessibility reporting tools and manual checks.

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve digital accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. The DMAS Agency Website is working toward meeting WCAG 2.1, Level AA and is currently mostly conformant. Mostly conformant means that some parts of the content, particularly legacy content, may not fully conform to the accessibility standard. Our efforts to remediate and/or recreate nonconformant content where possible are ongoing.

Technical specifications

Digital Accessibility of the DMAS Agency Website relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

HTML
WAI-ARIA
CSS
JavaScript

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the digital accessibility standards used.

Limitations, and Alternatives

Despite our best efforts to ensure digital accessibility of the DMAS Agency Website, there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Known limitations for the DMAS Agency Website:

Adobe Portable Document Files (PDF): Some PDFs may not be accessible by assistive technology such as screen readers because legacy content was created prior to Adobe's latest Accessibility Tools. Our efforts to remediate and/or recreate nonconformant content where possible are ongoing.
Tableau Dashboards: Tableau is a third-party platform widely used for data visualizations. While we use accessibility best practices when creating data dashboards, some features of the platform may not allow for accessibility conformance. Tableau catalogues accessibility issues on its website.

Contact The Digital Accessibility Team:

For Users experiencing digital accessibility issues, particularly people using assistive technology such as screen readers, please report those issues by directly contacting our Digital Accessibility Team. We will try to respond to reported issues and feedback within two business days.

This statement was created on April 13, 2021 and is updated quarterly.