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A2Z Personnel and The Drive 107.9 are happy to award Jackie McCann with the We Support Our Schools grant for January of 2023! Mrs. McCann is the Liberian at Florence Elementary School. Mrs. McCann has really been wanting to create a fairy garden space for her students to enjoy and to also help spark imagination…
A2Z Personnel and The Drive 107.9 are happy to award Ayse Haxton with the We Support Our Schools grant for December of 2022! Mrs. Haxton is a teacher at Stevensville High School. Mrs. Haxton is a 9th-grade English teacher but also teaches a “Cultural Storytelling” elective. Students explore similarities and differences in the ways, people,…
A2Z Personnel and the Drive 107.9 are happy to award Linda Burrington with the We Support Our Schools grant for November of 2022! Ms. Burrington is a 6th-grade math teacher and has been teaching at Stevensville School for 23 years. She is especially passionate about her students and math. Every day her students have “Problems…
A2Z Personnel and the Drive 107.9 are happy to award Christopher Haxton with the We Support Our Schools grant for October 2022! Mr. Haxton is a middle school teacher at Darby Middle School. This year Mr. Haxton is teaching a pilot program for his middle schoolers, Leather Carving. In this class, students will focus on…
A2Z Personnel and the Drive 107.9 are happy to award Nichole Oyler with the We Support Our Schools grant for September 2022! Mrs. Oyler is a 3rd grade teacher at Stevensville Primary School. Mrs. Oyler says her 3rd graders love to read! This year her class has 26 students who all utilize the books in…
A2Z Personnel and the Drive 107.9 are happy to award Bruce Jessop with the We Support Our Schools grant for May 2022! Mr. Jessop is a 2nd grade teacher at Stevensville Primary School. Mr. Jessop is looking to spark interest in engineering and robotics with his students. To do so he is going to be…
A2Z Personnel and the Drive 107.9 are happy to award Stephanie DeBiasio with the We Support Our Schools grant for March 2022! Mrs. DeBiasio is a 6th grade science teacher at Hamilton Middle School. Mrs. DeBiasio teaches an all girls science engineering class. The girls and Stephanie are going to be attending the State Science…
A2Z Personnel and the Drive 107.9 are happy to award Mara Johnson with the We Support Our Schools grant for February 2022! Mrs. Johnson is a kindergarten teacher at Stevensville Primary School. Mrs. Johnson has 16 fun and energetic kindergarteners that love engaging in story time and checking out classroom books. Mara is settling into…
Payton Olin is January’s recipient of the We Support Our Schools grant! Mrs. Olin is a 5th grade teacher at Lone Rock School. This is her first year teaching! She is excited to take her 5th grade students on a field trip to Missoula this year to visit the planetarium at the University of Montana…
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
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.
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.
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