Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0)
WCAG 2.0 covers recommendations for making Web content more accessible to a wide range of people with disabilities. Exploring Your Potential adopted the WCAG 2.0 requirements for development, testing and conformance of all software and websites.
The 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA)
The 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 focuses on ensuring that communications and media services, content, equipment, emerging technologies and new modes of transmission are usable and accessible to users with disabilities.
Exploring Your Potential services are now compatible with standard screen readers such as VoiceOver on iOS and OSX platforms, TalkBack on Android devices and NVDA (Non Visual Desktop Access) for Windows platform.
This Voluntary Product Accessibility Template, or VPAT, is a tool that administrators and decision-makers can use to evaluate Exploring Your Potential’s conformance with the accessibility standards under Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Date: 09/01/2018
Name of Product: Exploring Your Potential V1.6.2
Contact: info@exploringyourpotential.com
Exploring Your Potential accessibility features enable customers with disabilities such as visual and hearing impairment to schedule, attend and participate in a collaborative meetings, view recordings, and access administrative features from any computer or mobile device. Our team follow methodologies based on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 and the 21st Century Communications & Video Accessibility Act requirements.
| Exploring Your Potential Accessibility – Product Summary Table | ||
| Guideline | Applicable | Compliance |
| Software Applications and Operating Systems | Applicable | Supports with exceptions |
| Web-Based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications | Applicable | Supports with exceptions |
| Section 1194.23 Telecommunications Products | Not applicable | — |
| Video and Multimedia Product | Applicable | Supports |
| Section 1194.25 Self-Contained, Closed Products | Not applicable | — |
| Section 1194.26 Desktop and Portable Computers | Not applicable | — |
| Functional Performance Criteria | Applicable | Supports |
| Information, Documentation, and Support | Applicable | Supports |
Section 1194.21 Software Applications and Operating Systems – Detail |
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| Criteria | Supporting Features | Remarks and explanations | |||
| (a) When software is designed to run on a system that has a keyboard, product functions shall be executable from a keyboard where the function itself or the result of performing a function can be discerned textually. | Supports with exceptions |  The Exploring Your Potential platform uses a third party collaboration tool who’s VPAT can be accessed here: https://bigbluebutton.org/files/vpat.pdf |
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| (b) Applications shall not disrupt or disable activated features of other products that are identified as accessibility features, where those features are developed and documented according to industry standards. Applications also shall not disrupt or disable activated features of any operating system that are identified as accessibility features where the application programming interface for those accessibility features has been documented by the manufacturer of the operating system and is available to the product developer. | Supports | Exploring Your Potential does not disrupt or disable Windows operating system accessibility features such as filter keys, toggle keys, sticky keys, and the on-screen keyboard, but it does not respond to user-defined operating system color contrast settings in Windows.Exploring Your Potential depends on Adobe Flash Player, which does not have access to operating-system settings for user-defined color and contrast.
Exploring Your Potential does not interfere with any operating system or browser shortcuts. Accessibility features such as sticky keys, magnifiers, screen readers, cursor sizes and virtual keyboards are not disabled or disrupted by Exploring Your Potential. |
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| (c) A well-defined on-screen indication of the current focus shall be provided that moves among interactive interface elements as the input focus changes. The focus shall be programmatically exposed so that Assistive Technology can track focus and focus changes. | Supports | Where possible, Exploring Your Potential uses default browser focus styles. Where those styles are overridden, Exploring Your Potential provides distinct focus styles. | |||
| (d) Sufficient information about a user interface element including the identity, operation and state of the element shall be available to Assistive Technology. When an image represents a program element, the information conveyed by the image must also be available in text. | Supports | Exploring Your Potential uses aria labels and ID to specify navigation elements and alt tags for images. | |||
Section 1194.22 Web-based Internet information and applications – Detail |
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| Criteria | Supporting Features | Remarks and explanations | |||
| (a) A text equivalent for every non-text element shall be provided (e.g., via “alt”, “longdesc”, or in element content). | Supports | Meaningful images in the Exploring Your Potential user interface have alt-text descriptions. Non-relevant images have no alt-text. | |||
| (b) Equivalent alternatives for any multimedia presentation shall be synchronized with the presentation. | Supports | Exploring Your Potential does not contain built-in multimedia presentations. Users upload their own content and are responsible for ensuring the accessibility of the uploaded content. | |||
| (c) Web pages shall be designed so that all information conveyed with color is also available without color, for example from context or markup. | Supports | Exploring Your Potential does not use color alone to distinguish the importance of a visual element. | |||
| (d) Documents shall be organized so they are readable without requiring an associated style sheet. | Supports | A user or screen reader can read and understand pages in Exploring Your Potential with the associated style sheets disabled. | |||
| (e) Redundant text links shall be provided for each active region of a server-side image map. | Not applicable | Exploring Your Potential does not use server-side image maps. | |||
| (f) Client-side image maps shall be provided instead of server-side image maps except where the regions cannot be defined with an available geometric shape. | Not applicable | Exploring Your Potential does not use server-side image maps. | |||
| (g) Row and column headers shall be identified for data tables. | Supports with exceptions | most data tables are marked up with informative column and row headers. The appointment scheduling table does not contain headers due to styling constraints. Exploring Your Potential Whiteboard: does not use tables. |
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| (h) Markup shall be used to associate data cells and header cells for data tables that have two or more logical levels of row or column headers. | Supports | Exploring Your Potential Scheduler: the appointment scheduling table does not contain headers due to styling constraints. Exploring Your Potential Whiteboard: does not use tables. |
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| (i) Frames shall be titled with text that facilitates frame identification and navigation | Supports | Exploring Your Potential does not use frames. | |||
| (j) Pages shall be designed to avoid causing the screen to flicker with a frequency greater than 2 Hz and lower than 55 Hz. | Supports | Exploring Your Potential does not cause the screen to flicker with a frequency greater than 2 Hz and lower than 55 Hz. | |||
| (k) A text-only page, with equivalent information or functionality, shall be provided to make a web site comply with the provisions of this part, when compliance cannot be accomplished in any other way. The content of the text-only page shall be updated whenever the primary page changes. | Supports with exceptions | Exploring Your Potential Scheduler: a text only version of the scheduler is in development. Exploring Your Potential Whiteboard: A text-only page cannot be used as a substitute for a live meeting. However, a transcript of the information shared in a meeting is beneficial to some users. |
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| (l) When pages utilize scripting languages to display content, or to create interface elements, the information provided by the script shall be identified with functional text that can be read by Assistive Technology. | Supports | Exploring Your Potential uses javascript, WAI-ARIA and the most modern HTML5 techniques to provide feedback from interactive elements and to allow Assistive Technology such as screen readers to read and transmit information back to the user. | |||
| (m) When a web page requires that an applet, plug-in or other application be present on the client system to interpret page content, the page must provide a link to a plug-in or applet that complies with §1194.21(a) through (l). | Supports with exceptions | Users who do not have the Flash Player installed will be prompted to do so when joining a Exploring Your Potential Whiteboard meeting. | |||
| (n) When electronic forms are designed to be completed on-line, the form shall allow people using Assistive Technology to access the information, field elements, and functionality required for completion and submission of the form, including all directions and cues. | Supports | Exploring Your Potential Scheduler: all forms work well with screen readers such as JAWS or VoiceOver. Exploring Your Potential Whiteboard: the meeting interface does not use forms. |
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| (o) A method shall be provided that permits users to skip repetitive navigation links. | Supports | Exploring Your Potential Scheduler: uses semantic HTML5 elements such as, and, as well as ARIA landmark roles such as “navigation”, “complementary”, “main” and “contentinfo” to cue Assistive Technology. | |||
| (p) When a timed response is required, the user shall be alerted and given sufficient time to indicate more time is required. | Not applicable | uses semantic HTML5 elements such as, and, as well as ARIA landmark roles such as “navigation”, “complementary”, “main” and “contentinfo” to cue Assistive Technology. | |||
Note to 1194.22: The Board interprets paragraphs (a) through (k) of this section as consistent with the following priority 1 Checkpoints of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 2.0) (May 5 1999) published by the Web Accessibility Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium: Paragraph (a) – 1.1, (b) – 1.4, (c) – 2.1, (d) – 6.1, (e) – 1.2, (f) – 9.1, (g) – 5.1, (h) – 5.2, (i) – 12.1, (j) – 7.1, (k) – 11.4.
| Exploring Your Potential Accessibillity Section 1194.24 Video and Multimedia Products – Detail |
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| Criteria | Supporting Features | Remarks and explanations |
| a) All analog television displays 13 inches and larger, and computer equipment that includes analog television receiver or display circuitry, shall be equipped with caption decoder circuitry which appropriately receives, decodes, and displays closed captions from broadcast, cable, videotape, and DVD signals. As soon as practicable, but not later than July 1, 2002, widescreen digital television (DTV) displays measuring at least 7.8 inches vertically, DTV sets with conventional displays measuring at least 13 inches vertically, and stand-alone DTV tuners, whether or not they are marketed with display screens, and computer equipment that includes DTV receiver or display circuitry, shall be equipped with caption decoder circuitry which appropriately receives, decodes, and displays closed captions from broadcast, cable, videotape, and DVD signals. | Not applicable | Exploring Your Potential does not include any display hardware. |
| (b) Television tuners, including tuner cards for use in computers, shall be equipped with secondary audio program playback circuitry. | Not applicable | Exploring Your Potential does not include any television tuner hardware. |
| (c) All training and informational video and multimedia productions which support the agency’s mission, regardless of format, that contain speech or other audio information necessary for the comprehension of the content, shall be open or closed captioned. | Supports | help videos have close captioned capabilities. |
| (d) All training and informational video and multimedia productions which support the agency’s mission, regardless of format, that contain visual information necessary for the comprehension of the content, shall be audio described. | Supports | video is audio described. |
| (e) Display or presentation of alternate text presentation or audio descriptions shall be user-selectable unless permanent. | Supports | Captions can be manually displayed |
| Section 1194.31 Functional Performance Criteria – Detail | ||
| Criteria | Supporting Features | Remarks and explanations |
| (a) At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require user vision shall be provided, or support for Assistive Technology used by people who are blind or visually impaired shall be provided. | Supports | optimized to work well with screen readers such as JAWS or VoiceOver. |
| (b) At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require visual acuity greater than 20/70 shall be provided in audio and enlarged print output working together or independently, or support for Assistive Technology used by people who are visually impaired shall be provided. | Supports | supports screen magnification and browser-provided zoom functionality. |
| (c) At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require user hearing shall be provided, or support for Assistive Technology used by people who are deaf or hard of hearing shall be provided. | Supports | supports manual captioning via chat |
| (d) Where audio information is important for the use of a product, at least one mode of operation and information retrieval shall be provided in an enhanced auditory fashion, or support for assistive hearing devices shall be provided. | Supports | Exploring Your Potential offers audio enhancement via the operating system. |
| (e) At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require user speech shall be provided, or support for Assistive Technology used by people with disabilities shall be provided. | Supports | Exploring Your Potential does not require speech for operation. |
| (f) At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require fine motor control or simultaneous actions and that is operable with limited reach and strength shall be provided. | Supports | Exploring Your Potential provides support for keyboard access to all but a very small number of features. |
| Section 1194.41 Information, Documentation and Support – Detail | ||
| Criteria | Supporting Features | Remarks and explanations |
| (a) Product support documentation provided to end-users shall be made available in alternate formats upon request, at no additional charge | Supports, with exceptions | Product support in an accessible text-based format is available online at http://suport.exploringyourpotential.com Alternative formats may require an additional charge. |
| (b) End-users shall have access to a description of the accessibility and compatibility features of products in alternate formats or alternate methods upon request, at no additional charge. | Supports | Exploring Your Potential provides information on accessibility features in the documentation. Electronic versions of all product support documentation are provided. |
| (c) Support services for products shall accommodate the communication needs of end-users with disabilities. | Supports | All support content at http://Exploring Your Potential.freshdesk.com is available in an accessible HTML, text-based format. |