Open to everyone.

The standard

This site aims to meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at Level AA. The guidelines describe how to make web content usable by people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive disabilities.

How the site is built

• A “Skip to content” link at the top of every page, and a logical heading order.
• Text alternatives for every photograph and rendering, each saying whether it is a real photograph of the site or a design visualization.
• Full keyboard use, including the menu, the gallery and Malibu guide filters, the beach map’s access points, and the enlarged photo viewer.
• Visible focus outlines on links and buttons.
• Text and background colours chosen to meet AA contrast, including text set over photographs.
• Dialogs that keep focus inside, close with the Escape key and return you to where you were.
• Links that open a new tab say so to screen readers.
• The beach map’s information, each access point with its address, status and distance, is also given in text beside the map.
• No video or sound, and nothing that plays on its own.
• Support for your device’s reduced-motion setting, which stops the slow zoom on page photographs.
• Layouts that work at phone width without sideways scrolling.

How it is checked

Each page is tested with the axe-core automated checker, by keyboard, and at phone width. Text over photographs is measured against the photograph itself, not only against its shade.

Known limitations

• Some small labels are set in small uppercase type. Your browser’s zoom enlarges them without breaking the layout.
• Some photographs are described in general terms rather than in detail.
• Linked sites such as Apel Experience, Instagram and Google Maps are outside our control.
• The site has not yet had a full manual review with screen reader software.

At Surfside

This statement covers the website. Surfside is still being built; for questions about physical access once it opens, such as steps, paths and parking, ask Apel Experience.

Tell us about a barrier

If something on this site gets in your way, or you need information from it in another format, contact Apel Experience at management@apelexperience.com or (818) 825-5475. Please say which page you were on and, if you can, the browser or assistive technology you were using. We aim to reply within five business days.