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	1	2	3	4	5	6 Dogwood Dink Pickleball Tournament 8:00 am Dogwood Dink Pickleball Tournament Apr 6 @ 8:00 am Tickets Dogwood Dink Pickleball Tournament, Vestavia Hills Civic Center, 8am The Dogwood Dink brings pickleball enthusiasts together for a day of fun and enthusiastic game play! Don’t have a partner? Don’t worry … We will matchRead More Dogwood Days: Cahaba Heights 10:00 am Dogwood Days: Cahaba Heights Apr 6 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Tickets Dogwood Days: Cahaba Heights, 10am-8pm Explore everything Cahaba Heights has to offer – boutique shopping, spas, multiple restaurants and more! Register at any participating business to win an amazing prize with a local theme. Battle of the Bands 5:00 pm Battle of the Bands Apr 6 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm Tickets Battle of the Bands, Rocky Ridge Plaza, 5-9pm Rocky Ridge Entertainment district will host the 5th annual Battle of the Bands competition at Rocky Ridge Plaza. This live music competition features bands from area middleRead More
7 Spring Yard Judging Concludes Spring Yard Judging Concludes Apr 7 all-day Tickets	8	9	10	11	12 Spring Fling Family Day Spring Fling Family Day Apr 12 all-day Tickets Spring Fling Family Day, Wald Park Bring a chair or blanket and join Vestavia Hills Parks and Recreation to celebrate the arrival of spring with live music, food trucks, face painting, bounce houses, vendors (withRead More	13 VHHS RISE Day 4:00 pm VHHS RISE Day Apr 13 @ 4:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tickets VHHS RISE Day, VHHS, 4-10pm Admission is FREE to this family-friendly, community-wide festival celebrating the culmination of the VHHS RISE fundraising activities. This inspirational event features food, games, live music by student bands and aRead More
14	15 Historical Society Presentation: VHMC 2:00 pm Historical Society Presentation: VHMC Apr 15 @ 2:00 pm Tickets Historical Society Presentation: Vestavia Hills Methodist Church, Vestavia Hills City Hall, 2pm Rev. Dr. Bill Brunson, Senior Pastor of Vestavia Hills Methodist Church, will provide a summary of the church’s 70+ year history, along withRead More	16 Dogwood Prayer Breakfast 7:00 am Dogwood Prayer Breakfast Apr 16 @ 7:00 am – 9:00 am Tickets Dogwood Prayer Breakfast, Vestavia Country Club, 7-9am Anna Gualano will be this year’s guest speaker. Tickets will sell out quick … get yours today on the Chamber of Commerce website at www.vestaviahills.org or for more information, contact theRead More	17	18 Dogwood Days Farmer’s Market: Liberty Park 4:00 pm Dogwood Days Farmer’s Market: Liberty Park Apr 18 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Dogwood Days Farmer’s Market: Liberty Park, 4-7pm Explore everything Liberty Park has to offer – boutique shopping, spas, multiple restaurants and more!	19	20
21 Miles College Golden Voices Choir Concert 3:00 pm Miles College Golden Voices Choir Concert Apr 21 @ 3:00 pm Tickets Library in the Forest Concert: Miles College Golden Voices Choir, Vestavia Hills Civic Center, 3pm Join the Library in the Forest for this FREE concert! Under the direction of Ms. Valerie Harris, the Miles CollegeRead More	22	23	24	25	26	27 Wing Ding 4:00 pm Wing Ding Apr 27 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Wing Ding, Vestavia Hills City Hall Lawn, 4-7pm Join Leadership Vestavia Hills for a day of fun competition where we put our local chefs to the test. Visitors will enjoy great chicken wings, live musicRead More
28 Heights Hangout 2:00 pm Heights Hangout Apr 28 @ 2:00 pm – 7:00 pm Tickets Heights Hangout, The Heights Village, 2-7pm Enjoy live music, a kid’s zone, pop-up shops, sponsor booths and more. Tickets are $10 at the gate; proceeds benefit the ongoing Beautification of Cahaba Heights through the CahabaRead More	29	30

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April 19, 2024

Compliance status

We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.

To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.

This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.

Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.

If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email

Screen-reader and keyboard navigation

Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:

Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.

These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.

Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.

Disability profiles supported in our website

Epilepsy Safe Mode: this profile enables people with epilepsy to use the website safely by eliminating the risk of seizures that result from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.
Visually Impaired Mode: this mode adjusts the website for the convenience of users with visual impairments such as Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
Cognitive Disability Mode: this mode provides different assistive options to help users with cognitive impairments such as Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to focus on the essential elements of the website more easily.
ADHD Friendly Mode: this mode helps users with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental disorders to read, browse, and focus on the main website elements more easily while significantly reducing distractions.
Blindness Mode: this mode configures the website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is software for blind users that is installed on a computer and smartphone, and websites must be compatible with it.
Keyboard Navigation Profile (Motor-Impaired): this profile enables motor-impaired persons to operate the website using the keyboard Tab, Shift+Tab, and the Enter keys. Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.

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Font adjustments – users, can increase and decrease its size, change its family (type), adjust the spacing, alignment, line height, and more.
Color adjustments – users can select various color contrast profiles such as light, dark, inverted, and monochrome. Additionally, users can swap color schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds, with over 7 different coloring options.
Animations – epileptic users can stop all running animations with the click of a button. Animations controlled by the interface include videos, GIFs, and CSS flashing transitions.
Content highlighting – users can choose to emphasize important elements such as links and titles. They can also choose to highlight focused or hovered elements only.
Audio muting – users with hearing devices may experience headaches or other issues due to automatic audio playing. This option lets users mute the entire website instantly.
Cognitive disorders – we utilize a search engine that is linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary, allowing people with cognitive disorders to decipher meanings of phrases, initials, slang, and others.
Additional functions – we provide users the option to change cursor color and size, use a printing mode, enable a virtual keyboard, and many other functions.

Browser and assistive technology compatibility

We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.

Notes, comments, and feedback

Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to