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.

Schedule for target completion

Schedule	Target
By April 2016	Release of the Web Accessibility Policy and Level A compliance for the website’s key 46 pages (including 10 PDF files)
By June 2016	Level AA compliance for all web pages on the website with the exception of the categories and exceptions shown below Categories: http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/news/ http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/en/news/
By August 2016	Level AA compliance for the entire website, with the following exceptions.

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 (excluding content deemed as exceptions) 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 (excluding content deemed as exemptions; 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/