¡Descubre nuestra misión de amplificar las voces latinas y proteger el medio ambiente de Arizona para las generaciones futuras!
Nos dedicamos a empoderar a las comunidades latinas para influir en las políticas, proteger los recursos naturales y combatir el cambio climático.
A través de la defensoría de base local y participación comunitaria, luchamos por aire limpio, agua segura y vecindarios saludables para las comunidades más afectadas por los impactos perjudiciales del cambio climático. Únete al movimiento de justicia ambiental para construir un futuro más sostenible y equitativo para las generaciones futuras.
Queremos influir en el gobierno para que tome medidas y responsabilice a los mayores contaminadores de Arizona. Chispa Arizona, un programa de la Liga de Votantes por la Conservación, amplifica las voces latinas, el poder comunitario y la participación cívica para un futuro más limpio en Arizona.
Comunidades que disfruten de aire y agua limpios, espacios abiertos y parques, con la seguridad de saber que nuestro planeta puede sostenernos hoy y en las generaciones futuras.
Una democracia en la que todas las personas tengan la oportunidad de elegir quién les representará, y esos representantes rindan cuentas ante todos sus electores. Participar en nuestra democracia debe ser fácil y accesible.
Un movimiento ambiental fuerte y poderoso que refleje los valores, prioridades y liderazgo de las comunidades latinas, familias de bajos ingresos y comunidades de color.
Los latinos representan el 30% de la población de Arizona y junto con las comunidades de bajos ingresos y otras comunidades de color, se ven considerablemente afectados por la crisis climática. Debemos asegurarnos de que las familias y los líderes latinos tengan una voz fuerte en las políticas que afectan a nuestras comunidades y participen directamente en la toma de decisiones climáticas.
Fortalecemos el poder de nuestras comunidades proporcionándoles las herramientas organizativas, las conexiones y las oportunidades de liderazgo necesarias para tomar medidas en temas ambientales locales y nacionales que nos conciernen.
Aplicamos un enfoque transformador a la defensa del medio ambiente; cultivando un movimiento poco convencional, accesible y revolucionario que llega a las personas donde se encuentran.
Actuamos con valor y convicción; responsabilizando a quienes toman decisiones y a los contaminadores, abordando desafíos sistémicos y luchando contra el racismo ambiental.
Construiremos un movimiento ambiental equitativo e inclusivo que ponga a las personas primero; un movimiento impulsado por las comunidades más afectadas por las injusticias climáticas.
Mantente informado sobre nuestros temas, campañas, eventos y momentos importantes en los que tenemos que movilizarnos rápidamente. Al unirte a nuestra lista de correo electrónico, te unirás a más de 12.000 arizonenses que participan en el movimiento por la Justicia Medioambiental.
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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.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
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