Best practices make HP.com more accessible

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Ensuring accessible content on HP.com

HP has implemented best practices to make the site more accessible. Some of the most important of these best practices are detailed below.

Accessible Web design development techniques

• Integrate accessibility into the Web development process. • Monitor roll-out of new HP.com Web sites.

Web Accessibility training

• Sponsor and produce accessibility training for HP.com Web page developers. • Update training regularly with latest accessibility requirements. • Conduct company-wide Web accessibility training and awareness campaigns.

Tools and other resources

• Use multiple accessibility testing and retrofitting tools that are currently available in the market to analyze and modify our pages. • Provide HP.com Web developers with accessibility evaluation tool licenses.

Standards and guidelines

• Promote accessible Web design and standards harmonization. • HP standards integrate U. S. Section 508 and W3C WCAG 1.0 (priorities 1 and 2). • Contribute to industry standards development. • Update HP.com guidelines constantly to meet new accessibility requirements. • Publish and maintain an extensive intranet site that sets forth Web accessibility guidelines for HP.com. • Work with leading Web accessibility experts.

Evaluation and testing

• Test templates and main Web assets to ensure accessibility. • Maintain an accessibility benchmarking program • Test all our development templates and gateway pages rigorously for accessibility. • Mandate the use of automated accessibility checkers for all pages published on HP.com. • Audit our Web site periodically to look for inaccessible content and alert the content owners so they can address any issues.

Partnerships

• Partner with accessibility experts and with the authoring tool vendors to ensure compliance with accessibility guidelines.