Accessibility Statement

SpendingVault is committed to making our website accessible to as many people as possible, including people with disabilities. We strive to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA across the federal-spending profiles, tables, and reports we publish.

What we do

• We design new pages with accessibility in mind — keyboard navigation, semantic HTML, sufficient color contrast, and clear focus indicators.
• We mark up our data tables semantically — descriptive captions, column and row scopes on header cells — so screen readers can announce agency, recipient, state, and program data in context.
• We run automated accessibility audits (axe-core and Pa11y) against the site on a regular cadence.
• When we are made aware of an accessibility issue, we work to address it as part of our ongoing maintenance.

A note for screen-reader users

SpendingVault publishes thousands of pages of federal-spending data, including dense tables of agencies, recipients, programs, industries, states, and congressional districts. While each table is marked up with semantic <caption>,<th scope="col">, and <th scope="row"> tags, the volume of data on a single profile can be substantial. For the best experience, we recommend visiting our data tables on a desktop browser with a modern screen reader (NVDA, JAWS, or VoiceOver), where table-navigation shortcuts and the wider viewport make it easier to move between cells, sort columns, and download the underlying CSV from any agency, recipient, industry, or program page.

What we cannot promise

Accessibility is an ongoing effort, not a finish line. Despite our best efforts:

• Some older content may not yet meet our current accessibility standards.
• Third-party content (data sourced from USAspending.gov, embeds, or downloadable CSVs) may have accessibility limitations outside our direct control.
• New issues may be introduced when we add features or content; our automated audits help catch these but are not exhaustive.

How to report a problem

If you encounter an accessibility barrier on SpendingVault, please let us know so we can fix it.

• Email: privacy@spendingvault.com
• What to include: the page URL, the device and browser/assistive technology you were using, and a description of the issue.

We aim to respond to accessibility reports within a reasonable timeframe and work toward a resolution. Reporting an issue does not waive any rights.

Standards and approach

This site targets WCAG 2.1 Level AA. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines define how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities — including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity, and combinations of these.

This statement was last reviewed on 2026-05-01.