Accessibility statement for WooCommerce.com

This is an accessibility statement from Automattic Inc.

Measures to support accessibility

Automattic Inc. takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of WooCommerce.com:

  • Include accessibility throughout our internal policies.
  • Provide continual accessibility training for our staff.
  • Employ formal accessibility quality assurance methods.

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. WooCommerce.com 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.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of WooCommerce.com. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on WooCommerce.com:

  • E-mail: accessibility@woocommerce.com

Technical specifications

Accessibility of WooCommerce.com 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

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility standards used.

Limitations and alternatives

Despite our best efforts to ensure accessibility of WooCommerce.com, there may be some limitations. Below is a description of known limitations, and potential solutions. Please contact us if you observe an issue not listed below.

Known limitations for WooCommerce.com:

Comments from users, some content hosted using third party software, and content in blog posts, pages, and products created before January 2023 may contain accessibility content issues, like missing alternative text with the images, incorrect link texts or incorrect use of headings. Please email accessibility@woocommerce.com if you encounter an issue.

Assessment approach

Automattic Inc. assessed the accessibility of WooCommerce.com by the following approaches:

  • External evaluation

Date

This statement was created on 9 December 2022 using the W3C Accessibility Statement Generator Tool.

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