What is accessibility?
Accessibility means that a person with a disability is able to access information, services, or resources with the same amount of time, effort, and assistance as a person without a disability. Accessibility is a principle that applies before a person with a disability comes to a resource, service, or structure. It is something that is built-in to the resource, service, or structure at initiation. Examples of accessibility in the court context include courthouses that are built with ramps and other features to make them navigable to wheelchair users or a video on a court website that includes captioning.
Tools for courts
NCSC has developed a new resource, Serving People with Disabilities and Title II of the ADA: A Toolkit for Courts, to highlight provisions of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to help state courts ensure equal access for people with disabilities.
How does accessibility impact this website?
We have taken steps toward compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 (commonly known as WCAG 2.2).
Under these guidelines, all information on our website must be accessible and usable for people of all abilities, including older people and those with visual, hearing, cognitive or motor impairments.
What is WCAG 2.2
WCAG 2.2 is a series of international standards from the World Wide Web Consortium. This organization creates guidelines and supporting criteria for the web, based on consultation with various interest groups including software developers, private enterprise, governments and members.
WCAG 2.2 identifies techniques to create and manage web content in ways that are more accessible to people with disabilities, for example, through assistive technologies like screen readers. Websites that are more accessible are also generally more user-friendly to everyone.
Usability testing
We are committed to making our site as user-friendly as possible. Testing has been conducted on this site with key community groups and stakeholders. This feedback has been integrated into the design, navigation and content of our site. We will continue to develop, evaluate and improve the usability of our site to ensure our users' needs are being met.
Accessibility testing
Many people use assistive technologies such as screen readers or screen magnifiers to help them view, read and navigate a website. To ensure our site delivers a good experience for all users and works well with newer technologies, the site has been reviewed for accessibility against the WCAG 2.2 requirements.
We have built and modified the site to support the accessibility needs so that we become more inclusive to a wider audience online.