Accessibility statement

1. Commitment and Conformance Standard

VPH Society is committed to making its website vph-society.org accessible to all people, including those with disabilities. We strive for harmony with accessibility laws and guidelines.

You should be able to:

  • zoom up to 500% without problems
  • navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
  • navigate most of the website using a modern screen reader and speech recognition software (on your computer or phone)

2. Compliance status

This website is partially compliant with technical standard EN 301 549 v.3.2.1 and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA.

The website was last tested on November 19, 2025.
 

3. Evaluation Method

The website was evaluated using automated verification tools such as Lighthouse (Chrome DevTools), combined with manual testing, including keyboard navigation and screen reader usage.
 

4. Feedback and Assistance Requests

Your feedback is vital to improving our accessibility. If you encounter barriers or accessibility issues on any part of this site, please contact us:

Email: info@vph-society.org

If you need access to information or documents that are not accessible (such as a PDFs or videos), please specify the content and your preferred format in your request.

 

5. Compatibility with browsers and assistive technology

Our website is designed to be compatible with the following most used assistive technologies:

  • the latest version of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari browsers;
  • in combination with the latest versions of NVDA, VoiceOver and TalkBack.

6. Technical specifications

The accessibility of our website 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
  • WAI-ARIA
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

 

7. Non-accessible content

Despite our best efforts to ensure the accessibility of our website, we are aware of some limitations, which we are working to fix. Below is a description of known limitations and potential solutions. Please contact us if you encounter an issue not listed below.

Known limitations for VPH Society’s website:

  1. Video captions: Some of our videos may not have captions. We are continuously working on adding them to more videos.
  2. Audio description: Videos on this website do not have audio description.
  3. Heading Hierarchy: Some headings do not follow the correct heading hierarchy, which can cause problems for screen reader users.
  4. Images: Some decorative images are marked up as informative images without a text alternative.