The Nippon Foundation is making the utmost effort to ensure and enhance the accessibility of its official website in accordance with “JIS X 8341-3:2016 Guidelines for older persons and persons with disabilities – Information and communications equipment, software and services – Part 3: Web content.” JIS stands for “Japanese Industrial Standards”.

Scope of compliance

The entire The Nippon Foundation official website: https://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/

• Excluding employment information pages (https://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/recruit/）

Targeted compliance level

JIS X8341-3:2016 Level AA

• The term “compliance” as used in this Website Accessibility Policy refers to “JIS X8341-3:2016 Compliance Level Indication Guidelines for Web Content, March 2016 Edition” published by the Web Accessibility Infrastructure Committee of the Info-communication Access Council.

Exceptions

The following items are deemed exceptions owing to the difficulty of meeting the success criteria at this time:

• Graphics and video content for which the original data no longer exists (and therefore cannot be modified)
• Some content in PDF format
• Some content provided by external services

Test results

Testing period	Test results	Level achieved
March 2016	Key 46 web pages (including 10 PDF files): Individual-page basis	A
May 2016	All web pages except for the following categories (and excluding content deemed as exemptions): All-page basis http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/news/ http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/en/news/	AA
August 2016	Web pages in the News category (excluding content deemed as exemptions): All-page basis	AA
August 2019	All web pages: All-page basis	AA

Policy update history

• April 1, 2016: Website Accessibility Policy released
• April 1, 2016: Test results (individual-page basis) for the key 46 web pages (including 10 PDF files) released
• June 1, 2016: Test results for all web pages with the exception of the following categories released (all-page basis)
  • http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/news/
  • http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/en/news/
• August 1, 2016: Test results for web pages in the News category released (all-page basis)
• August 30, 2019: Test results for all pages with the exception of the following category released together with new official website design
  • https://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/recruit/