WEB ACCESSIBILITY COMPLIANCE
IPE partners with Swoogo as our delegate registration management and web platform builder for all our events. Swoogo is independently audited and rated compliant level AA according to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). It has also achieved 508 compliance, a US federally mandated law that requires federal agencies to use information and communication technologies that are accessible to people with disabilities.
WCAG is a development providing a shared standard for web content accessibility that seeks to meet individual or organisational needs for accessibility and compliance. This is a global initiative to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities.
Compliance levels
There are three compliance levels that WCAG assigns for website accessibility:
- A minimum level
- AA more accessible
- AAA even more accessible
Our event web platform, Swoogo, is currently rated AA, meaning the criteria at this level establish more accessibility that should work with most assistive technologies.
For instance, by right clicking any highlighted text and choosing read aloud, the text from that point on a given page will be read aloud until you close the real aloud function and descriptions can be added to images so that the contents can also be read aloud.