Accessibility for non-profits
This folder is for directors, communications staff, editors and the website creator. Many non-profits exist to serve people who are older, disabled, ill, poor or not fluent in the main language; a site they cannot use fails the mission itself. In many countries accessibility is also a legal duty or a funder's condition.
The compact page in the Businesses section is Accessibility for non-profits; the full treatment for public bodies, most of which applies to non-profits too, is the Government accessibility section.
Contents
What Exponential provides
From What Exponential provides for accessibility and Accessibility for site builders:
| Part | Status |
|---|---|
| The admin4 and admin4l administration designs | Designed and regression-tested against WCAG 2.2 AA; the project rates them Partly complies and makes no conformance claim |
| Guidance for template authors | Language, landmarks, skip link, headings, focus, contrast, zoom |
| Image fields | Can require alternative text |
| Online editor | Writes structured rich text (headings, lists, tables) rather than free HTML |
| Right-to-left content | Marked with lang and dir |
| Content checks | Find problems in content (Content checks) |
| Conformance reports | None: there is no VPAT, no Accessibility Conformance Report and no WCAG-EM report for Exponential |
What stays with you
| Part | Who answers for it |
|---|---|
| The public design of your site | You, or the person who builds it |
| Content: alternative texts, headings, link texts, documents | Your editors |
| PDFs and other documents | Whoever produces them |
| Embedded services (donation forms, videos, maps, CAPTCHAs) | You choose them; test them |
| An accessibility statement | You publish it |
The pages of this folder
| Page | What it answers |
|---|---|
| Accessibility basics for non-profits | The essentials for a small team, in priority order |
| Accessible campaigns and documents | Appeals, landing pages, annual publications, videos, social images |
| Accessibility statement for non-profits | Writing and keeping a statement honest |
Who does what
| Role | Responsibility | Read |
|---|---|---|
| Director | Make it a requirement in every brief and contract | Procurement clauses |
| Website creator | Accessible templates, tested | Accessibility for site builders |
| Editors | Accessible content every day | Accessibility checklist for editors |
| Communications lead | Documents, campaigns, the statement | Accessible campaigns and documents |
| Everyone | Respond to feedback from users | Monitoring and feedback |
Where to go deeper
- Testing accessibility and Testing with axe and the keyboard.
- WCAG 2.2 mapping.
- Accessibility upkeep for the yearly routine.
- Laws: European Accessibility Act, Section 508; ask a lawyer which apply to your organization.
Related pages
- Non-profits: start here
- Governments: start here
- Accessibility for non-profits (Businesses)
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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