Accessibility

RWB’s Commitment to Accessibility

The Royal Winnipeg Ballet is committed to an inclusive and diverse environment that values, respects and supports all individuals. We aim to have a workforce representative of the diversity within our community, and welcome and encourage applicants from various backgrounds including women, Indigenous people, racialized people, disabled people, people of all sexual and gender identities and others who may contribute to further diversification endeavors.

Our Current Site

We re-launched this website and our updated visual identity in December 2024 with accessibility top of mind. This update included a thorough overhaul of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet brand colours with an emphasis on improving colour contrast, and selection of new typefaces and typesetting for better readability. In addition to the design and styling updates, we reviewed and updated our website’s accessibility to conform as closely as possible to WCAG 2.2 Level AA.

When auditing our website we specifically review and address the following areas:

• Structural markup
• W3C WAI-Aria landmarks
• Images
• Links
• Forms
• Scripts
• Visual design
• Keyboard navigation
• Screen reader navigation (NVDA)

Current Conformance Status and Audit Data

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) defines requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. Our website is conformant to WCAG 2.2 Level AA with a few minor known issues.

Website:

• Alt-text needs to be entered for all content in the media library
• PDFs are not fully accessible, please reach out to our team for an alternate

Updates

Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s website will be fully available in French in early 2025.

We will review this policy annually. This policy was last reviewed on December 16, 2024.

Feedback & Accommodations

The Royal Winnipeg Ballet is committed to providing accessible employment while ensuring our recruitment process is barrier free. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates participating in all aspects of the assessment and selection process. Requests for accommodation can be sent to peopleservices@rwb.org.

If you have any suggestions, comments, or questions regarding the accessibility of this website or our products, please email us or fill out our contact form on our Contact page. We will respond promptly to any accessibility related issues on the site and will do what we can to improve your experience on our website.

Adapted from Developing Organizational Policies on Web Accessibility https://www.w3.org/WAI/planning/org-policies/