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Accessibility Statement for Webwise

Webwise is committed to making its website accessible, and is constantly striving to improve accessibility to the website.

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. Webwise 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.

Non-accessible Content

The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons.

  • Images – some images have missing or incomplete meta descriptions.
  • Links – some links may not have sufficient descriptive text
  • PDF documents – many documents are published in .pdf format and are not fully accessible

This content is not an exhaustive list of non-accessible content.

Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology

Webwise.ie is not compatible with:

  • Browsers older than 3 major versions
  • Mobile operating systems older than 5 years

Webwise is continually working to improve accessibility including by:

  • Engaging our web developers in an audit of accessibility and improvements to webwise.ie
  • Continuing work to improve accessibility of content

Technical specifications

Accessibility of Webwise.ie 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
  • WAI-ARIA
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

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

Assessment approach

Webwise assessed the accessibility of Webwise by the following approaches:

  • Self-evaluation
  • Manually Audited using Googles Lighthouse Accessibility tool.
  • Manually audited using accessibilitychecker.org for WCAG AA 2.1 validation.

Webwise is committed to ongoing review and improvement of accessibility on our website.

 

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of Webwise.ie

E-mail: internetsafety@pdst.ie

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