What this is
Beauchamp is a fictional municipality. This site is a self-initiated demonstration built by OptForce to show conformance with WCAG 2.1 Level AA and the obligations of the ADA Title II web rule. It is not a client engagement and it is not a government website.
What it was tested against
Every route is scanned with axe-core, scoped to the WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA rule tags. Best practice rules are excluded deliberately: failing one is not a conformance failure, and blurring the two would overstate the result.
Automated scanning is not the whole test and this site does not pretend it is. Purpose built checks cover the failures no scanner reports: keyboard operation, reflow at 320 pixels, link text, heading order, automatic movement, tables built from divs, and legends that rely on colour.
How the imagery was produced
Maps are generated from data, never illustrated
The zoning map, the snow emergency route map, and the collection zone map are SVG, generated from the same records that produce their text descriptions. This matters more than the pictures looking real.
A district cannot appear on a map and be missing from its description, because both come from one record. There is no invented lettering, which would be both a visible tell and an image of text nobody can read. And the files are small, scalable, and reviewable in a diff.
The district and zone labels on those maps are real SVG text rather than drawn shapes, and that is deliberate. Vector text scales with browser zoom instead of pixelating the way a rasterised map would. Delivered through an image element it is unreachable to a screen reader, which is why the rule this site enforces is not a ban on text in maps but a stronger one: every label on a map must also appear in that map's text description. Nothing exists only in the picture.
Scenes are flat illustration, not photography
Photorealistic generated imagery is recognisable and would undercut a demonstration whose argument is rigour. Every scene is a flat illustration in the site palette, generated with Recraft V4.1 in vector mode, with no legible text, no identifiable faces, no seal or crest, and no landmark resembling a real place.
They are vectors rather than photographs, which is why the whole image layer on this site is SVG apart from one deliberate exception. Gzipped, the scenes run between 28 and 57 kilobytes, smaller than an AVIF of the same picture, and they stay sharp on any screen. No route carries more than 56 kilobytes of imagery.
Every scene file was checked for baked-in lettering and for a raster bitmap hidden inside an SVG wrapper. Neither would be visible in review, and both would undo the reason for choosing the format.
One image is deliberately wrong
The budget summary image in the inaccessible version is a screenshot of this site's own budget table, produced by a script. That makes it a genuine image of text carrying exactly the same numbers as the accessible table, so the comparison between the two is fair rather than arranged.
Synthetic imagery
8 of the 9 images on this site are synthetic. 3 are generated from collection data, 5 are drawn illustrations, and 1 is a screenshot of this site's own budget table.
| Image | How it was produced | Where it is used |
|---|---|---|
| The 2026 adopted budget summary, shown as a picture of a table | Screenshot of this site, produced by script | The D02 defect artifact. Not shown in the conformant build, where the budget renders as a real table. |
| Schematic map of the township divided into the 4 trash and recycling collection zones | Generated as SVG from collection data | The collection zone map, on the recycling and garbage calendar page. |
| Freeman Green during an outdoor event, with market stalls and seating under trees | Flat vector illustration, Recraft V4.1 via Higgsfield | Community section landing page. |
| homepage-hero, decorative | Flat vector illustration, Recraft V4.1 via Higgsfield | Homepage hero, behind the page title. |
| The library reading room, with shelving, tables, and a staffed desk | Flat vector illustration, Recraft V4.1 via Higgsfield | Beauchamp Free Public Library department page. |
| The Public Works yard on Sycamore Flats Road, with collection vehicles and salt storage | Flat vector illustration, Recraft V4.1 via Higgsfield | Public Works department page. |
| Playing fields at Lenape Park, with a backstop, benches, and a path | Flat vector illustration, Recraft V4.1 via Higgsfield | Recreation department page. |
| Schematic map of the township with snow routes drawn by clearing priority, distinguished by line weight and dash pattern | Generated as SVG from collection data | The snow emergency route map, on the Public Works snow page. |
| Schematic map of the township divided into 7 zoning districts, with a flood overlay along the southern edge | Generated as SVG from collection data | The zoning map, on the Land Use and Zoning department page. |
Deliberate decisions
- Nothing auto-rotates, auto-plays, or auto-advances anywhere on this site.
- There is no accessibility overlay or widget. Overlays do not remediate.
- There is no machine translation widget. Translated pages are written.
- Documents that should never have been PDFs are published as web pages.
- Every invented fact is recorded in the decisions log rather than presented as given.