Accessibility statement

Data Reports (reports.kernkids.org) · Kern County Superintendent of Schools · Last reviewed 6 November 2026

The Kern Integrated Data System (KiDS) team at the Kern County Superintendent of Schools wants every educator who uses these reports to be able to read and navigate them, whatever tools they use. We aim for this site to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at level AA, the standard referenced by the Americans with Disabilities Act Title II web accessibility rule and California Government Code section 11135.

Where the site stands

Every page of the site (the sign-in card, the Grid Report, Trend View, Five-by-Five, County Trends, the county, district, charter and school pages, in light and dark mode) is checked with automated WCAG 2.1 AA testing (axe-core) and a keyboard walk-through before each release. As of the date above the automated checks report no violations, and the text each page exposes to screen readers (the browser accessibility tree) has been reviewed page by page. A VoiceOver walk-through by a colleague in November 2026 (Safari and Chrome on a Mac) found several places where the spoken order or wording was wrong; those have been fixed and are listed under Known limitations until the walk-through is repeated.

What we have built in

• Every control works with a keyboard alone: Tab moves through the tabs, filters, chart and table switches and the data grid; Enter or Space activates; Esc closes a tooltip.
• A "Skip to the report" link is the first Tab stop on each report page.
• Dashboard performance colours never stand alone. Each coloured tile carries its colour's initial (R, O, Y, G, B) and screen-reader text that names the colour, the status level and the change.
• Every Trend View chart has a Table view with the same values, one click away.
• Tooltips open on focus as well as on hover, and their text is also available to screen readers.
• Text and controls meet the 4.5:1 contrast minimum in both light and dark mode.
• The layout reflows to narrow screens and to 200% zoom without sideways scrolling of the page; the wide results grid scrolls within its own region.

Known limitations

• The printable and PDF views are laid out for paper and are not yet optimised for screen readers. The on-screen report carries the same figures.
• The "From here to the student" page embeds a video hosted on YouTube; its player and captions are YouTube's.
• Suppressed cells (fewer than 11 students, withheld by the California Department of Education) are read as "Not reported".
• VoiceOver read-all (VO-A) behaves differently in Safari and Chrome. The November 2026 walk-through found that Safari jumped around the Grid Report, skipped the Five-by-Five table, read every empty Five-by-Five cell and announced a build number in the footer, while Chrome read only the row names of the Trend View tables and stopped before the Filters sidebar. The page structure behind each of these has been changed; re-testing with VoiceOver is pending. Cell-by-cell navigation of every table worked in both browsers.
• In Chrome, VoiceOver's read-all may end before the Filters sidebar, which follows the report in reading order. The sidebar is a labelled "Report options" region, reachable with the rotor or Tab.

Tell us if something does not work

If any part of this site is hard to use with assistive technology, or you need a report in another format, email support@kernkids.org. Please say which page and which browser or assistive technology you were using. We aim to reply within five business days.

Technical notes

The site is built with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, relies on no plug-ins, and works in current desktop and mobile browsers. Automated testing uses axe-core 4.10 against the WCAG 2.0 and 2.1 A and AA rule sets.