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Fotoware compliance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines - WCAG
21. February 2025
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As of December 2020, Fotoware offers WCAG 2.0 AA compliance for both on-premises (FR16 onwards) and FotowareSaaS.
Fotoware WCAG adherence is implemented in the Fotoware Main interface. It is available for all operations that users who consume data on the site need to work with the site's content. There is no need to enable anything to make it work on your site.
For a full specification of WCAG, see https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
Key WCAG implementations in Fotoware
(The list is not exhaustive)
Alt tags
All images on the site have an alt attribute for identification. This attribute is automatically generated based on the content of the Title metadata field (#005). Accordingly, all assets in archives must be tagged with a minimum of the Title field for WCAG compliance.
Specifications:
Text and metadata input fields
All text and metadata input fields have a matching description explicitly associated with the area to ensure that assistive technology users also know what the area is for.
Text areas
All text areas have a matching description that is explicitly associated with the area to ensure that assistive technology users will also know what the area is for.
Links
Links are identifiable by attributes other than color alone.
WCAG specification: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/F73
Color and contrast
Adjusted choice of color and contrast levels to comply with WCAG guidelines.
WCAG specification: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/G18
Keyboard navigation
Improved to allow the focused component to be visually identified.
WCAG specification: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/F78
Site language declaration
Conforms to BCP 47
WCAG specification: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H58