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Accessibility Statement for worldskills.org

This is an accessibility statement from WorldSkills International.

Measures to support accessibility

WorldSkills International takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of WorldSkills website:

  • Assign clear accessibility goals and responsibilities.
  • Employ formal accessibility quality assurance methods.

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. WorldSkills website is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of WorldSkills website. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on WorldSkills website:

We try to respond to feedback within .

Technical specifications

Accessibility of WorldSkills website relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.

Limitations and alternatives

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of WorldSkills website , there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Known limitations for WorldSkills website:

  1. Archived and older content: Images and videos may not have text alternatives because we lack the resources to fix archived content.
  2. PDF documents: many older PDF documents are not fully accessible to screen reader software

Assessment approach

WorldSkills International assessed the accessibility of WorldSkills website by the following approaches:

  • Self-evaluation
  • Automated testing of main website layouts using Axe-core, an accessibility testing engine for websites and other HTML-based user interfaces.
  • Manual testing of the main website layouts using tota11y, an accessibility visualization toolkit from Khan Academy.
  • Manual testing of keyboard navigation on the main website layouts.
  • Testing of main website layouts using screen reader, VoiceOver.

Date

This statement was created on 15 July 2021 using the W3C Accessibility Statement Generator Tool.