{"id":35388,"date":"2023-12-28T20:52:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T12:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merlionacademy.sg\/?page_id=35388"},"modified":"2023-12-28T21:06:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T13:06:01","slug":"accessibility-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/merlionacademy.sg\/id\/accessibility-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessibility Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"35388\" class=\"elementor elementor-35388\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-43daf52 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"43daf52\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e7c725c\" data-id=\"e7c725c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-47d8942 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"47d8942\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #ec5251;\"><a style=\"color: #ec5251;\" href=\"https:\/\/merlionacademy.sg\">Merlion Academy<\/a><\/span>\u00a0is committed to making our website as accessible as possible to everyone, including those with visual, hearing, cognitive and motor impairments. We have begun the process towards improving the accessibility of our website to ensure we provide equal access to all of our users.<\/p><p>As part of our commitment to accessibility, we make sure that our website is compatible with:<\/p><ul><li>Recent versions of popular screen readers<\/li><li>Operating system screen magnifiers<\/li><li>Speech recognition software<\/li><li>Operating speech packages<\/li><\/ul><p>We have endeavoured to follow international best practices and principles of universal design, such as:<\/p><ul><li>Retaining the ability to adjust the font size<\/li><li>Providing keyboard accessible navigation<\/li><li>Providing skip to content links at the top of the page<\/li><li>Exposing information to the accessibility API through the use of <span style=\"color: #ec5251;\"><a style=\"color: #ec5251;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/html-aria\/\">ARIA attributes<\/a><\/span><\/li><li>Maintaining colour-contrast ratios for text<\/li><\/ul><p>We also monitor the accessibility of the website every six months through third-party software. There may be links to external websites for which we cannot guarantee are accessible.<\/p><p><strong>Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Wherever possible, Merlion Academy will adhere to level AA of the <span style=\"color: #ec5251;\"><a style=\"color: #ec5251;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/WCAG21\/\">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines<\/a><\/span>. These guidelines outline four main principles to ensure that sites are:<\/p><ul><li><strong>Perceivable<\/strong> \u2013 Information and user interface components must be presentable to users in ways they can perceive<\/li><li><strong>Operable <\/strong>\u2013 User interface components and navigation must be operable<\/li><li><strong>Understandable <\/strong>\u2013 Information and the operation of user interface must be understandable<\/li><li><strong>Robust <\/strong>\u2013 Content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted reliably by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies<\/li><\/ul><p>If you would like to contact us to request accessibility-related assistance, report any accessibility problems, or request any information in accessible alternative formats, please use one of the methods on our <a href=\"https:\/\/merlionacademy.sg\/contact\"><span style=\"color: #ec5251;\">Contact Us<\/span><\/a> page.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b5750d0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b5750d0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ddca683\" data-id=\"ddca683\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b69c3c0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"b69c3c0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merlion Academy\u00a0is committed to making our website as accessible as possible to everyone, including those with visual, hearing, cognitive and motor impairments. We have begun the process towards improving the accessibility of our website to ensure we provide equal access to all of our users. 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