June, July – Membership Drive, Stuff the Bus & Pack the Pantry
June 7 – Business Outreach Class
June 14 – Belton Chamber Hosts CCCC Luncheon Meeting
June 21 – Summer Solstice Pop Up
August 3 – Steak Fry
August 24 – Chamber Night at Southwick Stadium
October 9 – Speed Networking
November 3 – Holiday Extravaganza
November 10– Turkey Bowl
December 11 – Awards Luncheon
Watch for more exciting special events!
If you have news you want to share with thousands of contacts through the Chamber’s email and social media pages, send your announcements to the Chamber by end of the day on Fridays to be included in our Monday Morning Member Announcements!
Contact the Chamber office if you are interested in hosting an upcoming Chamber event such as First Friday Coffee, After Hours Business Mixer, Business Outreach Class, Luncheon Meeting or maybe even a Special Event. We have many sponsorship and advertising opportunities available as well as committee and volunteer openings.
Make the most of your Chamber membership!
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Congratulations to Stacie Smith, Access Records Management!
Access Records Management chosen by the Kansas City Royals for the 2018 Jackie Robinson Most Valuable Diverse Business Partner Award!
CONGRATULATIONS
BAYS AT THE MOON BED AND BARKFEST!
For the second year in a row Bays at the Moon Bed and Barkfest on Main Street in Belton has been recognized as rated in the top 8 out of 99 doggie daycares and boarding facilities in the KC Metro area.
Are you familiar with The Life: A Social Publication for the residents of Creekmoor?
It’s 1 of 12 private social publications in KC all about their families, homes, kids, pets and events. I work with the most affluent, signature neighborhoods in the Metro area. (We have 1000 publications nation-wide) In each neighborhood, the readers are the writers. In other words, the publication in Creekmoor and Lake Winnebago AND coming soon to Loch Lloyd is about them, by them and for them.
Would you like an opportunity to mingle and connect with residents at social events? We offer a social events program where our business sponsors are introduced to residents to begin forming relationships.
My role as the publisher/owner is to meet with businesses to ensure that they are quality, respected businesses that have great products or services.
Currently meeting with:
Dental/Orthodontists
Vision
All Trades (Painting, Remodeling, Lawn Care/Landscaping, Flooring ETC)
To hear more reach out to Rebecca Dunning at 816. 216. 9572.
Get your Business or Personal Ad in North Cass Herald’s Keepsake Graduation Section, and send your well-wishes to the 2018 graduates of Belton High School, Ray-Pec High School and Heartland Academy.
Keep this year’s graduates thinking of you for years to come!
BHS Graduation is Thursday, May 10, at the Silverstein Eye Centers Arena
DONATIONS NEEDED – PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN!
Donations can be made as late as May 10th. Survey results indicate that the seniors would like microwaves, small refrigerators, laptops, e-readers, video gaming systems, gift cards, etc. Belton CARES will do our best to provide as many of the above items as we can. It all depends on the donations that we receive over the next few weeks.
Please consider making a donation. Checks made payable to Belton Cares and donated items can be sent to
Belton CARES, with the help of the community, will provide a drug/alcohol free After Grad party for all graduates and a guest at no charge to them. The party takes place at the High Blue Wellness Center in Belton, MO from 12am – 4am on May 11. Graduates get to hang out, enjoy food, play with inflatables, play basketball & volleyball, dance with a DJ, and win amazing prizes. Last year, we had 65% of graduates in attendance!
We need adults to help chaperone. Please contact Sandy Clutter if you can help.
Sandy K Clutter, Ed. D.
Executive Director Belton CARES
Retired Assistant Supt. for Special Services
816-718-6308
GARDEN PARTY ON MAIN STREET MAY 12
For several years, the merchants on Historic Downtown Belton Main Street have kicked off spring with the Annual Garden Party Celebration. This year’s event will be held on Saturday, May 12, just in time for Mother’s Day. Beautiful flowers will be for sale up and down Main Street provided by Creek Side Market. Enjoy the day on Main Street at all your favorite shops!
This mode enables people with epilepsy to use the website safely by eliminating the risk of seizures that result from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.
Visually Impaired Mode
Improves website's visuals
This mode adjusts the website for the convenience of users with visual impairments such as Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
Cognitive Disability Mode
Helps to focus on specific content
This mode provides different assistive options to help users with cognitive impairments such as Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to focus on the essential elements of the website more easily.
ADHD Friendly Mode
Reduces distractions and improve focus
This mode helps users with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental disorders to read, browse, and focus on the main website elements more easily while significantly reducing distractions.
Blindness Mode
Allows using the site with your screen-reader
This mode configures the website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is software for blind users that is installed on a computer and smartphone, and websites must be compatible with it.
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Visually Pleasing Experience
Dark Contrast
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Belton MO Chamber of Commerce
Accessibility Statement
www.beltonmochamber.org
November 28, 2023
Compliance status
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
Screen-reader and keyboard navigation
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 of 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 of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
Disability profiles supported in our website
Epilepsy Safe Mode: this profile enables people with epilepsy to use the website safely by eliminating the risk of seizures that result from flashing or blinking animations and risky color combinations.
Visually Impaired Mode: this mode adjusts the website for the convenience of users with visual impairments such as Degrading Eyesight, Tunnel Vision, Cataract, Glaucoma, and others.
Cognitive Disability Mode: this mode provides different assistive options to help users with cognitive impairments such as Dyslexia, Autism, CVA, and others, to focus on the essential elements of the website more easily.
ADHD Friendly Mode: this mode helps users with ADHD and Neurodevelopmental disorders to read, browse, and focus on the main website elements more easily while significantly reducing distractions.
Blindness Mode: this mode configures the website to be compatible with screen-readers such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver, and TalkBack. A screen-reader is software for blind users that is installed on a computer and smartphone, and websites must be compatible with it.
Keyboard Navigation Profile (Motor-Impaired): this profile enables motor-impaired persons to operate the website using the keyboard Tab, Shift+Tab, and the Enter keys. Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
Additional UI, design, and readability adjustments
Font adjustments – users, can increase and decrease its size, change its family (type), adjust the spacing, alignment, line height, and more.
Color adjustments – users can select various color contrast profiles such as light, dark, inverted, and monochrome. Additionally, users can swap color schemes of titles, texts, and backgrounds, with over 7 different coloring options.
Animations – epileptic users can stop all running animations with the click of a button. Animations controlled by the interface include videos, GIFs, and CSS flashing transitions.
Content highlighting – users can choose to emphasize important elements such as links and titles. They can also choose to highlight focused or hovered elements only.
Audio muting – users with hearing devices may experience headaches or other issues due to automatic audio playing. This option lets users mute the entire website instantly.
Cognitive disorders – we utilize a search engine that is linked to Wikipedia and Wiktionary, allowing people with cognitive disorders to decipher meanings of phrases, initials, slang, and others.
Additional functions – we provide users the option to change cursor color and size, use a printing mode, enable a virtual keyboard, and many other functions.
Browser and assistive technology compatibility
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), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Notes, comments, and feedback
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
