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Pika Accessibility: Overview

Colorado law (link) requires “exact language” by July 1, 2024. For libraries, this requirement has wide-ranging implications, including for Pika.

In order to be compliant with the law, all public aspects of Pika must address the standards outlined in version 2.1 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1). These web accessibility guidelines are organized into four principles: perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust. Each of these four principles is further defined by guidelines. Each guideline is accompanied by success criteria that enable conformance testing. There are three levels of success criteria: A (lowest), AA, and AAA (highest). In order to be compliant with Colorado law, all public aspects of Pika must rate at least AA.

The public aspects of Pika consist of four types of pages: account, search results, record views (grouped and bibs), and advanced search.

The development required to bring all guidelines under Principles 2 (operable) and 4 (robust) into AA compliance is globally applied to all Pika instances. Work will be performed on these principles first. The development to bring all guidelines under Principles 1 (perceivable) and 3 (understandable) requires both global and individual configuration. As Marmot staff begin working on principles 1 and 3, we will schedule meetings with libraries to discuss individual library configuration options.

Accessibility Principles: Details & Status

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