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Accessibility

We want every guide on myeasttn.com to be usable by everyone, including people who use a keyboard, a screen reader, magnification or other assistive technology.

Our goal

We use the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, level AA, as the standard we work toward. We have not had the site independently audited, and we don’t claim it fully meets that standard today. This page explains what we do, where we know we fall short, and how to tell us about a barrier.

What we do

• Keyboard and navigation. Menus, guide links and site search are ordinary links and form fields, so they can be reached with the Tab key and opened with Enter. Pages use one main heading and a logical heading order so screen-reader users can jump between sections.
• Text alternatives. Photos that carry meaning get a short description; purely decorative images and icons are marked so screen readers skip them. Large hero photos carry a text label describing the place.
• Contrast and text. We aim for readable type sizes and text colors with enough contrast against their backgrounds, and pages reflow on phones and when you zoom in.
• Language and structure. Every page declares its language (English) and uses standard HTML for lists, tables and links.
• Plain language. Guides are written in short, plain sentences, and facts link to the official source so you can check details in another format if you need to.

Known limitations

• Embedded maps (from OpenStreetMap) on some county pages may be hard to use with a keyboard or screen reader. The same places are always named and linked in the page text.
• Some older photos may have short or generic descriptions. We improve them as we update each guide.
• Links to outside sites — the National Park Service, state parks, TVA, shops and print partners — go to pages we don’t control, and their accessibility may differ from ours.

Tell us about a barrier

If something on myeasttn.com is hard or impossible for you to use, please email [email protected]. Tell us the page address and what got in the way (and, if you like, the browser and assistive technology you use). A real person reads every message. We’ll work to fix the problem, and in the meantime we can send you the information in another format, such as plain text.

Last reviewed October 31, 2026.

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