Pelican Design System
Accessibility Statement
Accessibility Statement
Pelican is committed to ongoing accessibility improvements.
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Overview
The Office of Technology Services, and Pelican, Louisiana’s Design System, are committed to providing digital products that are accessible. We are actively working to increase the accessibility and usability of our digital products. This commitment to accessibility begins with this site.
Accessibility is a Human Right
Accessibility isn’t a line-item that is tacked on at the end of a digital product’s development process. It’s a continual part of the development process. It has to be implemented along with content development, UX, wireframe, design, and development choices. According to a 2014 Census report on Americans with disabilities, “…27.2 percent, or 85.3 million, of people living in the United States had a disability in 2014.” This means that an accessibility-first mindset should the prime factor in developing digital products for Louisiana.
Ongoing Committment
Pelican endeavours to conform to level Double-A of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2..1. These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for people with disabilities. Conformance with these guidelines will help make the web more user friendly for all people.
This site has been built using code compliant with W3C standards for HTML and CSS. The site displays correctly in current browsers and using standards compliant HTML/CSS code means any future browsers will also display it correctly.
Our ongoing accessibility efforts work toward making Pelican as accessible as possible. Pelican welcomes comments on how to improve its accessibility for users with disabilities.
Contributing
No one knows everything, but we’re better when we work together. If you see a problem or have a new solution, please contribute to Pelican by creating a Pull Request. You can also give us Feedback so we can look into it.