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Accessibility Statement

Last Updated: October 2026

At Development Homes, Inc., we are committed to improving digital accessibility for individuals of all abilities. We believe everyone should be able to access information and services online, and we strive to make our website usable and accessible to people with disabilities. Accessibility improvements are an ongoing project, and we are continually working to identify and address barriers across our digital content and services.

1. Conformance Status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) define requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. These guidelines define three conformance levels: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA.

Development Homes, Inc. is working toward WCAG 2.1 Level AA conformance for its website. Our accessibility efforts are ongoing, and we are progressively reviewing and improving website content, navigation, and interactive features. We recognize that some areas may not yet fully conform to accessibility standards.

2. Accessibility Features and Improvements

As part of our ongoing accessibility project, we are working to improve the browsing experience for visitors with disabilities. Our efforts include:

  • Assistive Accessibility Tool: We are evaluating and implementing accessibility features to help visitors customize their browsing experience, including options such as text sizing, contrast adjustments, link highlighting, and other visual preferences where supported.
  • Keyboard Navigation: We are reviewing navigation menus, links, forms, and interactive elements to improve usability for visitors who rely on keyboard navigation.
  • Semantic Structure: We are working to improve heading hierarchies, page organization, accessible names, and semantic HTML landmarks to help screen-reader users navigate our website.
  • Responsive Scaling: We are reviewing website layouts to support different screen sizes, browser zoom levels, and assistive technologies without loss of important content or functionality.

3. Known Limitations and Non-Accessible Content

While we strive to improve accessibility, some areas of our website may currently have limitations. We are actively working to identify and address accessibility barriers as part of our ongoing project.

A. Brand Color Contrast

  • Certain existing brand color combinations may not meet the WCAG contrast requirements, including the 4.5:1 contrast ratio for normal text.
  • We are reviewing colors, links, buttons, and other interface elements to identify opportunities to improve contrast while maintaining our visual identity.

B. Third-Party Integrations and Plugins

  • Our website may use third-party services, plugins, embedded content, and interactive features to provide information and functionality.
  • Because some of these services are maintained by external providers, their accessibility may be outside our direct control. We are working to identify compatibility issues and pursue improvements or accessible alternatives where feasible.

C. Technical Documents and Legacy Media

  • Some downloadable documents, PDFs, images, and historical resources may not yet have appropriate tagging, alternative text, reading order, or other accessibility features.
  • Certain video content or graphical materials may require additional captions, descriptions, or alternative formats. We are reviewing these materials and working to improve accessibility where possible.

4. What We Are Doing to Improve

Digital accessibility is an ongoing commitment rather than a one-time project. Development Homes, Inc. is working toward improving and maintaining accessibility across its website through the following efforts:

  • Routine Audits: Conducting accessibility reviews using automated and manual testing tools, including Lighthouse, WAVE, and axe DevTools, as part of ongoing website maintenance and improvement work.
  • Ongoing Content Remediation: Reviewing and improving image alternative text, form labels, link descriptions, and page content organization.
  • Design and Component Testing: Evaluating website components, navigation, and interactive elements across modern browsers, devices, and different screen sizes.
  • Progressive Remediation: Prioritizing identified accessibility issues and addressing them as resources, platform capabilities, and development access allow.

Our goal is to continually improve the accessibility and usability of our website while recognizing that some technical limitations may require additional support from our website platform provider.

5. Feedback and Contact Information

We welcome feedback about the accessibility of the Development Homes website. If you encounter an accessibility barrier, have difficulty accessing information, or need website content in an alternative format, please contact us.

Website: https://www.developmenthomes.org/contact.html

Email: hresources@developmenthomes.org

Mailing Address:

Development Homes, Inc.
3880 S Columbia Rd
Grand Forks, ND 58201

When contacting us about an accessibility issue, please include:

  1. The URL of the page where you encountered the issue.
  2. A description of the accessibility barrier or the information you were trying to access.
  3. The assistive technology, browser, or device you were using, if applicable.
  4. Your preferred contact information and any alternative format you may need.

We aim to acknowledge and respond to accessibility inquiries within 3 to 5 business days, as our accessibility project progresses.

Thank you for helping us improve the accessibility of our website and services.

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Privacy Policy

  1. What Information Do We Collect? When you visit our website you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and website use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our website.
  2. Personal Information You Choose to Provide We may request that you voluntarily supply us with personal information, including your email address, postal address, home or work telephone number and other personal information for such purposes as correspondence, placing an order, requesting an estimate, or participating in online surveys. If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received by mail and telephone.
  3. Website Use Information Similar to other websites, our site may utilize a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and web server logs to collect information about how our website is used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our website, and the sites visited just before and just after ours. This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with you as an individual.
  4. How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us? Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering our business activities, providing service and support and making available other products and services to our customers and prospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our website, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. The lists used to send you product and service offers are developed and managed under our traditional standards designed to safeguard the security and privacy of all personal information provided by our users. You may at any time to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers.
  5. What Are Cookies? Cookies are a feature of web browser software that allows web servers to recognize the computer used to access a website. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user's web browser on the user's hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a user accesses on one web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that website by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user's transactions on related web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from web page to web page and to complete commercial transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized.
  6. How Do We Use Information Collected From Cookies? We use website browser software tools such as cookies and web server logs to gather information about our website users' browsing activities, in order to constantly improve our website and better serve our users. This information assists us to design and arrange our web pages in the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our website to better meet the needs of our users and prospective users. Cookies help us collect important business and technical statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace the paths followed by users to our website as they move from one page to another. Web server logs allow us to count how many people visit our website and evaluate our website's visitor capacity. We do not use these technologies to capture your individual email address or any personally identifying information about you.
  7. Notice of New Services and Changes Occasionally, we may use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our website, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. As a user of our website, you will be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by clicking on a response box when you receive such an offer or by sending us an email request.
  8. How Do We Secure Information Transmissions? When you send confidential personal information to us on our website, a secure server software which we have licensed encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us. The information is scrambled en route and decoded once it reaches our website. Other email that you may send to us may not be secure unless we advise you that security measures will be in place prior to your transmitting the information. For that reason, we ask that you do not send confidential information such as Social Security, credit card, or account numbers to us through an unsecured email.
  9. How Do We Protect Your Information? Information Security -- We utilize encryption/security software to safeguard the confidentiality of personal information we collect from unauthorized access or disclosure and accidental loss, alteration or destruction. Evaluation of Information Protection Practices -- Periodically, our operations and business practices are reviewed for compliance with organization policies and procedures governing the security, confidentiality and quality of our information. Employee Access, Training and Expectations -- Our organization values, ethical standards, policies and practices are committed to the protection of user information. In general, our business practices limit employee access to confidential information, and limit the use and disclosure of such information to authorized persons, processes and transactions.
  10. How Can You Access and Correct Your Information? You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database by emailing us using the contact form provided to you within the site structure of our website.
  11. Do We Disclose Information to Outside Parties? We may provide aggregate information about our customers, sales, website traffic patterns and related website information to our affiliates or reputable third parties, but this information will not include personally identifying data, except as otherwise provided in this privacy policy.
  12. What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information? We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.
  13. Permission to Use of Materials The right to download and store or output the materials in our website is granted for the user's personal use only, and materials may not be reproduced in any edited form. Any other reproduction, transmission, performance, display or editing of these materials by any means mechanical or electronic without our express written permission is strictly prohibited. Users wishing to obtain permission to reprint or reproduce any materials appearing on this site may contact us directly.
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Ongoing support is important to enabling projects to continue their work, so we encourage donors to continue to contribute to projects over time. But if you must cancel your recurring donation, please notify us.

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