Production
This Certificate verifies that this site has been reviewed and tested by software developers and remediated to be meet standards set by the WCAG 2.1 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1) AA level. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1) AA level covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible.
The WCAG 2.1 AA level guidelines include specific details on how to develop accessible Web content. This statement certifies that specific techniques were met for the Success Criterion detailed by WCAG. As a result your content has been made accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity and combinations of these. By implementing and adhering to these guidelines your site’s web content has also become more usable to users in general.
For more information on compliance guidelines see Understanding WCAG 2.1 and Techniques for WCAG 2.1.
Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology
Our mission goal is to be able to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible.
We have therefore invested efforts to support popular systems with high market share, including Chrome, Firefox, edge, Opera and Safari VoiceOver on a MAC. We have also addressed JAWS and NVDA assistive technologies for Windows and MAC.
Accessibility modifications
Our team of developers, designers and content accessibility experts has reviewed, remediated and tested this website by performing multi-layer accessibility testing and analysis of the new and updated accessibility measures and web content. As part of the process adjustments were made that included Javascript & CSS work. The process also includes accessibility modifications for assistive technologies (eg. NVDA, JAWS etc.). Below is a complete list of accessibility modifications and functionalities made.
| Shortcut Menu (Bypass Blocks) | Provides a navigation menu at the top of each page that leads directly to main page areas | 2.4.1 2.4.3 3.2.3 |
| Ignore elements | Ignoring or hiding unnecessary elements from tabindex sequence | 2.4.3 4.1.2 |
| Set Attributes | Sets HTML attributes to elements, includes ARIA-Roles attributes | 2.1.1 2.4.3 4.1.2 |
| Tabpanel | Make tabpanel and accordion widgets accessible to keyboard navigation and screen readers | 2.1.1 2.1.2 2.4.3 3.3.1 3.3.2 3.3.3 3.3.4 4.1.2 |
| Dialoger | Make dialogs (popups) accessible to keyboard navigation and screen readers | 2.1.1 2.1.2 2.4.3 3.3.1 3.3.2 3.3.3 3.3.4 4.1.2 |
| Tooltips / Hidden-texts | Adding informative tooltips and injecting accessible hidden text without affecting the visual content | 1.3.3 2.4.4 2.4.6 3.2.2 3.3.2 3.2.4 3.3.1 3.3.2 3.3.3 3.3.4 4.1.2 |
| Force Events | Simulate necessary events to malfunctional elements | 2.1.1 2.2.2 2.4.3 3.2.1 3.2.2 3.3.1 3.3.2 3.3.4 |
| Link Grouper | Groups links that connected with same references | 2.4.3 2.4.4 3.2.4 4.1.2 |
| Miscellaneous tools | Provide accessibility tools with specific purpose | All criteria |
| Add Javascript | Adding pure Javascript code to fix miscellaneous accessibility issues | All criteria |
| Add CSS | Adding pure CSS code to fix miscellaneous accessibility issues | 1.3.1 1.3.2 1.4.1 1.4.3 1.4.4 1.4.5 1.4.6 2.2.2 2.3.1 2.4.7 |
We have made a concentrated effort to provide an accessibility option on all the pages of the website. It is possible that some pages on the site may not have been discovered, or the appropriate technological solution has not yet been found. We will continue our efforts to improve the site’s accessibility as we are committed to having a site that is accessible – friendly and can be used by the entire population, including people with disabilities.
