Homeless Shelter Meal Mission 2nd Wednesday of every month On the 2nd Wednesday of each month, Crossroads volunteers will be providing hot meals for those in need at the Loudoun County Homeless Shelter. You can prepare a meal for 10 or serve at the shelter, or both! This is a hands-on mission that will make […]
We are thrilled to announce our Family Game Time here at Crossroads! You are invited to a fun-filled game afternoon on October 13th, from 3:00 - 4:30pm. Families are encouraged to come play games, while also enjoying fellowship and some friendly competition with other Crossroads families! All are welcome! We will have board games, minute […]
Crossroads is excited to be partnering again this year with Just Neighbors. They are an organization that works to foster an understanding between immigrants and the larger community in which they live. They achieve both of these things by holding legal clinics. Because of the generosity of the Crossroads community, we are able to fund […]
Crossroads will be having a Clean Up Day, Saturday, October 19th, from 9am-Noon. We will be working both inside and outside the church building. This is a great way to connect with others. Come and stay as long as you can. All ages are welcome. Come dressed appropriate for cleaning. Many hands make light work! […]
Bring your pets big and small to receive a special blessing! We will also be accepting donations of dog and cat food (dry or canned) and soft dog treats for FOHA and the Loudoun County local animal shelter. We will also have a photo shoot area for you and your pet! This event will take place in the gravel […]
Come on your own or bring a team up to six people for a fun night of trivia at Crossroads. A quizmaster for a DC based trivia company will present six rounds of general knowledge trivia. This is a free event for people of all ages. Please bring a snack (chips, cookies, etc) to share. […]
Bring your decorated car and candy or just bring the kids to Trick or Treat. Kids will also enjoy games, a scavenger hunt, and a bounce house! If you are trick or treating only, no registration needed. Invite your family and friends! If you want to bring your decorated car and hand out candy, sign […]
Holiday time is here again! So are the joys and challenges of holiday eating. The big challenge is to have fun at special occasions without jeopardizing some of the healthy practices you have worked on throughout the year. At this presentation we will be giving some tips to help you stay healthy during the holiday […]
Pints with the Pastor at Old Ox Brewery Every 4th Sunday, 11:30am-1:30pm Join the pastors and others at Old Ox Brewery following worship. This will be a social event where all are welcome to enjoy food, drinks, and conversation.
HOPE Preschool is having a fundraiser on Tuesday, October 29th, 4-8pm at the Panera on Greenway Corporate Drive in Ashburn. 25% of all sales will benefit HOPE Preschool! Good for dine in, drive-thru, pick-up, or delivery. If ordering online, use code FUND4U at checkout.
Crossroads is excited to announce our first ever Alternative Gift Market (AGM). Have you started your Holiday Shopping and don’t know what to get someone? This socially conscious gift market […]
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We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
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Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to