Community Valley Bancorp
A Financial Holding Company
Chico, California USA | 1-888-842-8883

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Our Commitment to Accessibility

Community Valley Bancorp strives to make its products and services accessible for all users, including people with disabilities. Since 2003, we have been working to make our Web content accessible to as broad a user base as possible.

Web Standards

The Community Valley Bancorp website is built on a foundation of XHTML driven by specialized Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript. These powerful tools deliver fully styled web pages to a wide variety of browsers without the excessive markup typically required only a few short years ago.

The proper design and layout of this site is only visible in a graphical browser that supports these technologies. The content, however, is accessible to any modern browser or Internet device with JavaScript capability enabled.

Website Features

Our current accessibility features include:

Alternative text detail for appropriate images and other non-text elements.
Title attributes for additional information about critical links and indication of new browser windows.
Standard icons indicating links to external websites.
Standard icons indicating all PDF files.
Structural markup to indicate headings and lists to aid in page comprehension.
Association of form fields with labels.
Use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to enhance the appearance and functionality of the site.
If CSS technology is not available, proper structural markup ensures that content will degrade gracefully.

Built for the future with regard for the past.

This website uses two strategies that insure that those visitors with current Web browsers can enjoy the latest Web technologies, while those who prefer less advanced software can still have a pleasant, though less elegant, browsing experience.

1. Progressive Enhancement

Progressive enhancement is a Web design strategy that emphasizes accessibility through the use of semantic HTML, external style sheets and client-side scripting technologies. Progressive enhancement uses these techniques in a layered fashion that allows everyone to access the basic content and functionality of a Web page (using any browser or Internet connection), while also providing those with better bandwidth or more advanced browser software an enhanced version of the page. In short, progressive enhancement starts from a very basic, working example and allows for constant extension by future technologies.

2. Graceful Degradation

Graceful degradation is the practice of building Web functionality that provides a high level of user experience in more modern browsers, but that will also degrade gracefully to a lower level of user in experience in older browsers. This lower level may not be as stylish, but it still provides visitors with the basic functionality and reliability that they require. In other words, graceful degradation starts from a moderate level of complexity but compensates for simpler software by providing a less elegant presentation.

Compliance

This website is monitored and tested regularly to identify any usability issues as well as improve accessibility according to the following guidelines:

Web Browsers

If you are having problems viewing this site, or suspect that it is not displaying properly, you may want to upgrade to the latest version of a compliant Web browser:

† Recommended for an enhanced browsing experience.

Hidden Quirks

We've worked long and hard to ensure the speedy and proper display of this website across a broad range of compliant browsers. However, there are undoubtedly some quirks and bugs that have hidden themselves from our prying eyes. Should you encounter any difficulty, please contact us.

Who built this thing?

This website was designed and handcrafted by Philip L. Papeman.

Your Opinion Counts
As we continue to improve our website, any updates will be included on this page. If you have comments or questions, you can contact us directly.