Accessibility statement derived from PAC’s accessibility statement found here.

The various accessibility-specific features and considerations of this website are discussed below. This website has been built to follow best practices and the standards of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). If you have any trouble accessing any component of this website, have suggestions for how to make the experience better for assistive technology users, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Structure

Headings are used to convey hierarchical levels of content. Headings at level 1 start the main content of any given page, while level 2 headings are used around any major sections of the site. Heading levels 3 through 6 are used when any section has subsections. Images are described so that vision is not required to appreciate graphical content. List markup is used to group related components so that a screen reader user can skip over a list of items with a single keystroke. Semantic regions such as navigation, main, and footer are used for easy movement between sections. We tested the website with NVDA, Jaws, and VoiceOver. Please let us know if you encounter any difficulties with any screen reading solutions.

Multimedia

Audio and video content on the site never automatically plays. We may link out to 3rd party multimedia content but have no control over how they present their multimedia. If there are issues please do let us know and we will inform our partners accordingly. We do our best to vet the videos we have are captioned and ideally also have audio descriptions, as is the case with our DCMP videos you may visit.

Contrast and Readability

Colors have been chosen to ensure there is sufficient color contrast on the website. We avoid overprinting, where text is placed atop images, and links are designated clearly with underlines. To facilitate keyboard usage, focus outlines are clearly visible on all images, links, buttons, edit fields, and other focusable elements. Color is also never the sole source of conveying information on the site.

Keyboard Navigation

Keyboard users can activate or manipulate every single component of the website that a mouse or touch user can. In addition to the focus-highlighting discussed above, longer pages also have on-page navigation links at the top to jump to specific portions of the page, such as “Skip to matching resources” and “Skip to matching collections”.

Voice Navigation

All buttons or links have textual labels so that the accessible name of a component is always visible. Similarly, text fields are clearly labeled. On-page skip links are made visible for all users, including voice users, to actuate for logical scrolling.

Suggestions or Issues

Accessibility is an evolving process and human error does occur. If there’s any aspect of this website that you find hard or difficult to use, we are happy to hear from you.