8.0 Web Standards

The CMHR has a strong commitment to making its content and services accessible to a wide range of disabilities. The Museum’s usability and accessibility guidelines for online content are as follows:

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) issued by the W3C

  • http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
  • http://www.w3.org/WAI/guid-tech.html

• Standard on Web Accessibility and Standard on Web Usability (WAI -Web Accessibility Initiative -Priorities 1 and 2)

  • http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/
  • http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria.php

• Our multimedia content is currently compliant to CLF2.0 and WAI Priority 3 elements.

• Accessibility for formatted tables and forms is currently handled through assistive technologies (e.g., screen reader software, screen magnification, refreshable braille display, speech recognition, keyboard overlays).

We also refer to:

• Accessible document guidelines
• Accessible authoring guidelines
• Testing (software and national users testing group)