Web Accessibility
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Policy
Digital Agency aims to "realize a people-friendly digital society where no one is left behind." To this end, it is essential that all people, including those with disabilities and the elderly, can smoothly use information and services provided on the web.
In order to achieve this, Digital Agency will continue to work to ensure, maintain, and improve web accessibility. As an indicator, we will use the Japanese Industrial Standard JIS X 8341-3:2016 "Guidelines for Designing for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities Information and Communications Equipment, Software, and Services - Part 3: Web Content".
Scope
Digital Agency website (https://www.digital.go.jp/domain/)
Desired level of conformance and responsiveness
Compliance level AA for the set of web pages defined in the scope
Deadline
March 31, 2026 (2026)
Validation Results
As of April 1, 2025 (2025), partially compliant with Compliance Level A. For details, see Web Accessibility Verification Results .
Please refer to the following for past verification results.
- Fiscal 2023 Verification Results (Published on April 1, 2024 (2024))
- Fiscal 2022 Verification Results (Published on August 31, 2022 (2022))
Supplementary Notes
The notation of "compliance" in this policy and the verification results is based on the notation specified in "JIS X 8341-3:2016 Compatibility Notation Guidelines for Web Content - April 2021 Version" of the Web Accessibility Infrastructure Committee of the Information and Communications Access Council.
https://waic.jp/docs/jis2016/compliance-guidelines/202104/
Revision History
- Formulated on September 1, 2021 (2021)
- August 31, 2022 (2022) The results of verification were added, and the scope and issues currently recognized were updated based on this.
- April 1, 2024 (2024) The content of the policy was updated based on the addition of the results of verification, and the page structure was partially changed.
- April 25, 2025 (2025) The content of the policy was updated based on the addition of the results of verification.