February 6, 2025
Swim Natation Manitoba was approved for funding through the Manitoba Accessibility Fund to rebuild the organization’s website with the intention of ensuring that we meet the WCAG 2.1 Level AA accessibility standards.
Processes and outcomes of website rebuild
Swim Natation Manitoba’s core values are:
- Fairness and Inclusion
- Community working in cooperation
- Evolution and Innovation
For this project, our focus was – Inclusion and Community.
Inclusion – maintaining a state of feeling respected, supported, and valued, focusing on the individual needs of employees, members and all Manitobans and ensuring the right conditions for candidates to achieve their full potential.
Community – building partnerships with like-minded groups to ensure successful dialogue with unlimited opportunities for positive growth and development.
These values guided our work and development of this website to ensure access for all. It was also important for us to work with Manitoba-based businesses during this process and we are grateful for their support and passion for accessibility.
Accessibility Testing
Throughout the web development process, accessibility testing was done to insure WCAG 2.1 Level AA was achieved. These tests included:
- Accessibility testing with WAVE
- Keyboard navigation testing
- Color contrast checks
- Responsive design testing
- Focus order tests
- Check for skip navigation links
- Check for proper use of headings, lists and other semantic html elements on website
- Check for use of ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) attributes for assistive technologies.
To learn more visit – SNM Accessibility.
Thank you to the Manitoba Accessibility Fund for making this project possible.
SNM Office