Accessibility
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Provides information on Genesys support for standards to make software accessible to people with disabilities.
This topic provides information on Genesys VPAT®
Overview
Genesys values diversity as a core principle. As part of this, Genesys seeks to remove obstacles for individuals with disabilities to be able to successfully use its software. Genesys follows best-practices and guidelines towards this goal.
The internationally recognized W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 cover a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. By following these guidelines, Genesys makes content more accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities and often makes Web content more usable to users in general. WCAG relies on four guiding principles for building accessible UIs, as follows:
- Perceivable: Information and user interface components must be presentable to users in ways they can perceive.
- Operable: User interface components and navigation must be operable.
- Understandable: Information and the operation of user interface must be understandable.
- Robust: Content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies.
Genesys provides Voluntary Product Accessibility Template® - VPAT® reports to document conformance of Genesys applications to WCAG 2.0 and WCAG 2.1 specifications. The VPAT® report is a standardized template for documenting conformance to various accessibility specifications. The VPAT® report provided by Genesys follows the W3C/WAI’s WCAG 2.0 and WCAG 2.1 specifications, as this is an international standard adopted and recognized by Genesys customers worldwide. Available Genesys VPAT® reports can be found in the table in the VPAT section below.
VPAT
The following table provides information on Genesys VPAT®:
Products | Role | WCAG 2.1 Level A Target Timeline | WCAG 2.1 Level AA Target Timeline | VPAT |
Widgets | Consumer | Achieved | Achieved | Available |
Portal | All employees | Achieved | Achieved | Available |
Workspace Web | Agent (+supervisor features) | Achieved | Achieved | Available |
Workspace Desktop (Premise) | Agent | Achieved (with limitations) | Achieved | Available |
WFM Web Agent | Agent | Achieved (with limitations) | In development | Available |
Pulse | Supervisor | Achieved | In development | Available |
Note: When using softphone, it is recommended to use in Connector Mode, which allows agents to control the softphone from their Workspace application.