Accessibility statement

Last updated: June 24, 2026

Our commitment

GemState is committed to making this website usable for as many people as possible, including people who use screen readers, keyboards, magnification, or other assistive technology. We are working toward conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA, and we treat accessibility as ongoing work, not a one-time checkbox.

What we have done

• Built the site with meaningful, structured headings and landmarks so it reads logically in assistive technology.
• Provided text descriptions for meaningful images.
• Aimed for readable color contrast, and offered both a light and a dark theme.
• Made interactive elements (the eligibility check, the menus, the forms) operable with a keyboard, with visible focus outlines.
• Honored the "reduced motion" setting: if your device asks for less motion, we turn off the animations and background movement.
• Written in plain language, because clear information is an accessibility issue too.

Where we are still improving

We have not yet completed a formal third-party accessibility audit, and no website is ever perfectly accessible to everyone. If you find something that is hard to use, that feedback is genuinely valuable to us and helps us fix it.

Tell us about a barrier

If any part of this site is difficult to use, or you need information in a different format, please tell us through our contact form and describe what you ran into. We will add a direct email address here as soon as it is set up. We will do our best to help and to fix the problem.