Voluntary Product Accessibility Template® (VPAT®) WCAG Edition Version 2.4
SkillsFirst takes accessibility seriously. Please review the Voluntary Product Assessment Template (VPAT) below to better understand SkillsFirst features that are fully accessible to users with disabilities.
Table 1: Success Criteria, Level A
1.1.1 Non-text Content
Text alternatives are available for SkillsFirst website features using non-text elements.
1.2.1 Audio-only and Video-only (Prerecorded)
1.2.2 Captions (Prerecorded)
All multimedia content provided by SkillsFirst includes a transcript and is closed captioned and audio-described. All end users have option to add a transcript or closed captioning to the multimedia content they create.
1.2.3 Audio Description or Media Alternative (Prerecorded)
An alternative for time-based media or audio description of the prerecorded video content is provided for synchronized media.
1.3.1 Info and Relationships
Information, structure, and relationships conveyed through presentation can be programmatically determined or are available in text.
1.3.2 Meaningful Sequence
When the sequence in which content is presented affects its meaning, a correct reading sequence can be programmatically determined.
1.3.3 Sensory Characteristics
Instructions provided for understanding and operating content do not rely solely on sensory characteristics of components such as shape, size, visual location, orientation, or sound.
1.4.1 Use of Color
Color is not used as the only visual means of conveying information, indicating an action, prompting a response, or distinguishing a visual element.
1.4.2 Audio Control
If any audio on a Web page plays automatically for more than 3 seconds, either a mechanism is available to pause or stop the audio, or a mechanism is available to control audio volume independently from the overall system volume level.
2.1.1 Keyboard
All functionality of the content is operable through a keyboard interface without requiring specific timings for individual keystrokes.
2.1.2 No Keyboard Trap
If keyboard focus can be moved to a component of the page using a keyboard interface, then focus can be moved away from that component using only a keyboard interface.
2.1.4 Character Key Shortcuts
2.2.1 Timing Adjustable
2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide
2.3.1 Three Flashes or Below Threshold
SkillsFirst do not contain anything that flashes more than three times in any one second period, or the flash is below the general flash and red flash thresholds.
2.4.1 Bypass Blocks
SkillsFirst webpage allow people who navigate sequentially through content more direct access to the primary content of the Web page.
2.4.2 Page Titled
SkillsFirst webpage have titles that describe topic or purpose.
2.4.3 Focus Order
2.4.4 Link Purpose (In Context)
The purpose of each link can be determined from the link text alone or from the link text together with its programmatically determined link context.
2.5.1 Pointer Gestures
2.5.2 Pointer Cancellation
2.5.3 Label in Name
Semantic information about user interface objects is provided. Text labels are associated with all controls, objects, icons and significant images in the IU user interface.
2.5.4 Motion Actuation
Functionality that can be operated by device motion or user motion can also be operated by user interface components and responding to the motion can be disabled to prevent accidental actuation.
3.1.1 Language of Page
3.2.1 On Focus
3.2.2 On Input
Changing the setting of any user interface component does not automatically cause a change of context unless the user has been advised of the behavior before using the component.
3.3.1 Error Identification
Alert messages are used to communicate success messages and error messages along the top of the page throughout the web application. The messages are automatically announced, keyboard focus is placed appropriately, and the messages do not disappear after a short time for low vision users.
3.3.2 Labels or Instructions
Text labels are associated with all controls, objects, icons and significant images in the IU user interface.
4.1.1 Parsing
In content implemented using markup languages, elements have complete start and end tags, elements are nested according to their specifications, elements do not contain duplicate attributes, and any IDs are unique.
4.1.2 Name, Role, Value
Table 2: Success Criteria, Level AA
1.2.4 Captions (Live)
Captions are provided for all live audio content in synchronized media.
1.2.5 Audio Description (Prerecorded)
Audio description is provided for all prerecorded video content in synchronized media.
1.3.4 Orientation
Content does not restrict its view and operation to a single display orientation, such as portrait or landscape, unless a specific display orientation is essential.
1.3.5 Identify Input Purpose
1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum)
The visual presentation of text and images of text has a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1.
1.4.4 Resize text
Except for captions and images of text, text can be resized without assistive technology up to 200 percent without loss of content or functionality.
1.4.5 Images of Text
If the technologies being used can achieve the visual presentation, text is used to convey information rather than images of text.
1.4.10 Reflow
Content can be presented without loss of information or functionality, and without requiring scrolling in two dimensions for.
1.4.11 Non-text Contrast
The visual presentation have a contrast ratio of at least 3:1.
1.4.12 Text Spacing
In content implemented using markup languages that support the following text style properties, no loss of content or functionality.
1.4.13 Content on Hover or Focus
Custom tooltips, sub-menus, and other nonmodal popups that display on hover and focus are examples of additional content covered by this criterion.
2.4.5 Multiple Ways
More than one way is available to locate a Web page within a set of Web pages except where the Web Page is the result of, or a step in, a process.
2.4.6 Headings and Labels
2.4.7 Focus Visible
Any keyboard operable user interface has a mode of operation where the keyboard focus indicator is visible.
3.1.2 Language of Parts
The human language of each passage or phrase in the content can be programmatically determined except for proper names, technical terms, words of indeterminate language, and words or phrases that have become part of the vernacular of the immediately surrounding text.
3.2.3 Consistent Navigation
Navigational mechanisms that are repeated on multiple Web pages within a set of Web pages occur in the same relative order each time they are repeated, unless a change is initiated by the user.
3.2.4 Consistent Identification
Components that have the same functionality within a set of Web pages are identified consistently.
3.3.3 Error Suggestion
If an input error is automatically detected and suggestions for correction are known, then the suggestions are provided to the user, unless it would jeopardize the security or purpose of the content.
3.3.4 Error Prevention (Legal, Financial, Data)
4.1.3 Status Messages
In content implemented using markup languages, status messages can be programmatically determined through role or properties such that they can be presented to the user by assistive technologies without receiving focus.
Table 3: Success Criteria, Level AAA
1.2.6 Sign Language (Prerecorded)
1.2.7 Extended Audio Description (Prerecorded)
Where pauses in foreground audio are insufficient to allow audio descriptions to convey the sense of the video, extended audio description is provided for all prerecorded video content in synchronized media.
1.2.8 Media Alternative (Prerecorded)
An alternative for time-based media is provided for all prerecorded synchronized media and for all prerecorded video-only media.
1.2.9 Audio-only (Live)
An alternative for time-based media that presents equivalent information for live audio-only content is provided.
1.3.6 Identify Purpose
1.4.6 Contrast (Enhanced)
1.4.7 Low or No Background Audio
1.4.8 Visual Presentation
1.4.9 Images of Text (No Exception)
Images of text are only used for pure decoration or where a particular presentation of text is essential to the information being conveyed.
2.1.3 Keyboard (No Exception)
Most SkillsFirst website functionality is keyboard accessible and can be performed with assistive technology for people who are blind. There are however a few parts of the product that cannot be used by assistive technology users.
2.2.3 No Timing
Timing is not an essential part of the event or activity presented by the content. Video or audio recording is time limited.
2.2.4 Interruptions
Interruptions can be postponed or suppressed by the user, except interruptions involving an emergency.
2.2.5 Re-authenticating
If data has been saved before an authenticated session expires, the user can continue the activity without loss of data after re-authenticating . If the user is in the process of filling a form and gets logged out during the process the data in that form up to that point has to be entered again.
2.2.6 Timeouts
Users are warned of the duration of any user inactivity that could cause data loss, unless the data is preserved for more than 20 hours when the user does not take any actions.
2.3.2 Three Flashes
There are no blinking texts, objects, or other elements that violate this requirement.
2.3.3 Animation from Interactions
Motion animation triggered by interaction can be disabled, unless the animation is essential to the functionality or the information being conveyed.
2.4.8 Location
Motion animation triggered by interaction can be disabled, unless the animation is essential to the functionality or the information being conveyed.
2.4.9 Link Purpose (Link Only)
A mechanism is available to allow the purpose of each link to be identified from link text alone, except where the purpose of the link would be ambiguous to users in general.
2.4.10 Section Headings
2.5.5 Target Size
2.5.6 Concurrent Input Mechanisms
Web content does not restrict use of input modalities available on a platform except where the restriction is essential, required to ensure the security of the content, or required to respect user settings.
3.1.3 Unusual Words
3.1.4 Abbreviations
A mechanism for identifying the expanded form or meaning of abbreviations is available.
3.1.5 Reading Level
3.1.6 Pronunciation
3.2.5 Change on Request
3.3.5 Help
Product support documentation is available in electronic portable document format (PDF) and HTML format is included in the application. Standard operating system accessibility features can be used to render the PDFs in alternative formats, such as text-to-speech readers. A VPAT document is available in Microsoft Word document from upon request.
Product support is also available through telephone, email, and our web portal.
3.3.6 Error Prevention (All)