Accessibility Compliance for Koha

Accessibility Compliance for Koha

Koha currently complies with WCAG 2.1 AA requirements listed here: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/ . The community continually strives to comply with WCAG 2.2 AA requirements as soon as possible: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/. WCAG 2.2 AA includes all of the requirements from WCAG 2.1 AA plus more guidelines to make Koha more accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including accommodations for blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity, and combinations of these.

Koha is compliant with the Disability Discrimination Act and meets website accessibility to the WCAG 2.1 AA standard. Koha has a JavaScript dialect compliant with ECMAScript 262 edition 5.1. It is compliant with PECR 2011 and the ICO's requirement regarding cookies. It uses CSS 1/2 Style Sheets in preference to HTML formatting.

Koha is compliant with the new public sector requirements which came in on 23rd September 2020 (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/make-your-website-or-app-accessible-and-publish-an-accessibility-statement) which require public-facing applications to be accessible to level WCAG 2.1 AA standard. The Open Source Koha community QA process also includes accessibility as a pass/fail test when adding new code to the software.

Koha supports keyboard-only navigation. Font size, text, and background colors can be changed.

The Koha open source community has a role in the development team of Web Accessibility Advocate.

Here is the Koha accessibility statement that was last revised at KohaCon 2023: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Accessibility_Statement.

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