MediaStorm is committed to ensuring our tools support digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually working to improve the user experience for everyone, and to apply 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. The MediaStorm Platform 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.
Limitations: User-Provided Content
Websites and embeddable players published using the MediaStorm Platform are displayed through a template created and maintained by MediaStorm. Many of the success criteria for conformance are related to specific technical attributes of this template, for which MediaStorm is responsible.
However, the conformance of any individual project also depends, in part, on actions taken by the publishing entity in preparing content for publication and in configuring the various customization options offered by the MediaStorm Platform's publishing tools. For example:
- Template customization choices made by the publisher, including font, text size, color, and image selections, can impact conformance with guidelines related to text legibility, color contrast, or use of text within images.
- Many aspects of conformance are dependent on the metadata values supplied by publishers when creating assets via the MediaStorm Platform's administrative interface. Publishers must complete these fields with relevant data in order to facilitate the display of appropriate section headings, link text, navigation menu items, and other structural and informational elements.
- Transcripts, closed captions, audio descriptions, or other alternatives for time-based media must be prepared and configured by the publisher.
Technical Specifications
The MediaStorm Platform relies on the following technologies for conformance with the accessibility standards used:
- HTML
- WAI-ARIA
- CSS
- JavaScript
The web browser and any assistive technologies or plugins used to access the content must support these technologies in order to receive the highest available level of functionality.
Feedback
We welcome feedback regarding the accessibility of MediaStorm's publishing tools. Please contact us at info@mediastorm.com if you encounter barriers to accessibility when using our products.