Accessibility Statement

 

Accessibility Statement

The State of Innovation Challenge is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone, and applying the relevant accessibility standards.

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. State of Innovation Challenge is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to the accessibility standard.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of the State of Innovation Challenge. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on the Challenge website or Challenge materials:

We aim to respond to requests and accessibility feedback within 5 business days.

Technical specifications

Accessibility of the State of Innovation Challenge relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

  • HTML

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.

Limitations and alternatives

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of the State of Innovation Challenge there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Known limitations for State of Innovation Challenge:

  1. Live captions for videos: The industry engagement webinars do not feature live captions are speaking extemporaneously, rather than from a pre-written script. Users who need live captions can use view the livestream of the videos on our Youtube channel using YouTube's auto-caption feature. Please contact us at contact@kineticwest.com if you encounter an issue with captioning.

  2. Audio descriptions for pre-recorded video: Industry engagement webinars do not have audio descriptions for pre-recorded video because the employer panels are structured as live conversations between participants, with little to no projected content or pre-recorded videos. Please contact us at contact@kineticwest.com if you need a description of any content.

Assessment approach

State of Innovation Challenge assessed the accessibility of the State of Innovation Challenge by the following approaches:

  • Self-evaluation, using Google Lighthouse and WCAG guidelines

Formal complaints

If you have feedback, concerns or questions about the accessibility of State of Innovation Challenge, please contact the website managers at stateofinnovationwa@gmail.com. We aim to respond to requests and accessibility feedback within 5 business days and to propose a solution within 10 business days.