Accessibility Statement

Section 01

Our Commitment

Rental housing is not optional infrastructure. A person searching for a home, an owner reviewing a statement, or a tenant reporting a maintenance problem should not be blocked by the way a website is built. Lease Birmingham LLC treats accessibility as part of doing the work correctly, not as a separate compliance exercise.

We are committed to providing full and equal access to our services regardless of how a person uses the internet. That commitment applies to this website and to every other way we communicate with owners, tenants, applicants, and the public.

Section 02

Standard We Are Working Toward

We are working to bring leasebirmingham.com into conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA, published by the World Wide Web Consortium. These guidelines are the widely recognized benchmark for making web content accessible to people with visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning, and neurological disabilities.

We do not claim that this site is currently fully conformant. Stating otherwise would be inaccurate. Conformance is an ongoing process, particularly on a site with forms, interactive calculators, property listings, embedded maps, and third-party services. We are identifying and correcting issues on an ongoing basis, and we would rather tell you where we stand than publish a claim we cannot support.

Section 03

What We Are Doing

Our ongoing accessibility work includes:

• Providing text alternatives for meaningful images, so screen readers can describe them.
• Associating visible labels with every form field, including the rental review form and contact form.
• Making error messages clear, specific, and announced to assistive technology rather than shown by color alone.
• Maintaining sufficient contrast between text and background across the site.
• Making all interactive elements reachable and operable by keyboard alone, with a visible focus indicator.
• Using correct heading structure and page landmarks so a screen reader user can navigate by section rather than reading top to bottom.
• Ensuring text can be resized and the layout reflows without loss of content or function.
• Writing link text that describes its destination rather than relying on phrases like "click here."
• Reviewing new pages, forms, and features for accessibility before publishing them.

Section 04

Known Limitations

We would rather name the gaps than let you discover them. Areas where accessibility may be limited include:

Third-party services

The owner and tenant portals are provided through Rentvine, a third-party property management platform. Embedded maps are provided by Google. Review content is hosted on third-party platforms. We do not control the code of these services and cannot guarantee their accessibility. If a third-party service blocks you, contact us and we will complete the task with you directly by phone, email, or in person.

Interactive estimators

The cash-flow estimators on this site involve multiple linked inputs and results that update as values change. These are among the harder patterns to make fully accessible and remain under active review. If you would like the same figures worked through with you, call our office and we will do it over the phone.

Older content

Articles, images, and documents published before this statement took effect may not yet meet our current standard. We are reviewing older material as we go and will correct issues as they are identified.

Documents

Some documents may be provided in formats that are not fully accessible. We will provide an accessible alternative on request at no cost.

Section 05

Accessible Alternatives Are Always Available

You never have to use this website to do business with Lease Birmingham. Every task available online can be completed another way, at no additional cost and with no requirement that you explain why.

• Request a rental review by telephone instead of the online form.
• Receive property information, availability, rent amounts, and listing details read to you over the phone.
• Have an accessible-format copy of any document we publish provided on request.
• Get help submitting an application, reporting a maintenance issue, or reviewing a statement.
• Meet at our Birmingham office during business hours.
• Correspond by mail.

If you require a reasonable accommodation in order to use our services, ask. We will work with you.

Section 06

Fair Housing

Lease Birmingham LLC complies with the federal Fair Housing Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act where applicable, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and all applicable Alabama and local fair housing law. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status, or disability.

Requests for reasonable accommodations and reasonable modifications relating to a rental property are handled separately from website accessibility. Contact our office directly to make such a request.

Section 07

No Accessibility Overlay

This site does not use an accessibility overlay, toolbar, or automated widget. Those products are widely opposed by disability advocates, frequently interfere with the assistive technology a person has already configured, and do not correct the underlying code. We fix the site itself instead.

Section 09

Review of This Statement

This statement is reviewed periodically and updated when the site changes materially, when new features are published, or when reported issues are corrected. The review date at the top of this page reflects the most recent review.