Accessibility Statement

Measures to support accessibility

The Employment + Education Centre takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of Public Website:

- Include accessibility as part of our mission statement.

- Include accessibility throughout our internal policies.

- Assign clear accessibility goals and responsibilities.

- Have a third party perform accessibility scans using professional software, on a periodic basis.

- Added an accessibility plugin to WordPress that provides additional accessibility tools and settings for site visitors.

- Performed extensive remediation work to fix solvable accessibility issues, and identify additional issues that can be solved over time.

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. Public 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 Public Website. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on Public Website:

- Phone: 613-498-2111

- E-mail: accessibility@eecentre.com

Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology

Public Website is designed to be compatible with the following assistive technologies:

- Modern browsers and operating systems.

Technical specifications

Accessibility of Public 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

- WAI-ARIA

- 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 Public 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 Public Website:

1. WordPress Plugin Errors: WordPress plugins generate some non-compliant HTML and CSS code, which may cause difficulties with assistive technologies. Because we cannot alter or update plugin code, we are working to identify and switch to more accessible plugins.. Please email us if you encounter an issue.

Assessment approach

The Employment + Education Centre assessed the accessibility of Public Website by the following approaches:

- Self-evaluation

- External evaluation

Evaluation report

An evaluation report for Public Website is available at: https://eecentre.com/accessibility/TV20230414122416/.

Date

This statement was created on 17 April 2023 using the W3C Accessibility Statement Generator Tool.