all•Access Accessibility Conformance Report
Based on VPAT® version 2.5 WCAG Edition (November 2023)
Name of Product: BC Health Careers website
Report date
September 30, 2025Product Description
Contact Information
- Report Creator
- all•Access auditors: Rowan King • Nate King
- Creator Contact
- info@allaccess.dev
- Evaluation Commissioner
- Ministry of Health
Notes
- Product name
- BC Health Careers
- Scope of the product evaluation
- Full audit of site content of the public website of "BC Health Careers" located at https://bchealthcareers.ca/
Evaluation Methods Used
- Accessibility support baseline
- Keyboard interactions using Chrome, FireFox and Safari; Screen Reader interactions using Safari with VoiceOver (desktop); Safari with VoiceOver (mobile); Voice control using Safari with Voice Command; Automated testing with Lighthouse, WAVE and other extension tooling.
- Additional evaluation requirements
- The report reviewed every page of the website.
Applicable Standards/Guidelines
- WCAG Version
- 2.2
- Level Conformance target
- AA
Terms
- Supports
- The functionality of the product has at least one method that meets the criterion without known defects or meets with equivalent facilitation.
- Partially Supports
- Some functionality of the product does not meet the criterion.
- Does Not Support
- The majority of product functionality does not meet the criterion.
- Not Applicable
- The criterion is not relevant to the product.
- Not Evaluated
- The product has not been evaluated against the criterion. This can be used only in WCAG 2.0 Level AAA.
Detailed Audit Results
Section 1 Perceivable : Information and user interface components must be presentable to users in ways they can perceive.
Table 1.1 Text Alternatives
Table 1.1 – Level A | Conformance Level | Remarks and Explanations |
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1.1.1: Non-text Content
(Level A) All non-text content that is presented to the user has a text alternative that serves the equivalent purpose, except for the situations listed below.
| Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
Table 1.2 Time-based Media
Table 1.2 – Level A | Conformance Level | Remarks and Explanations |
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1.2.1: Audio-only and Video-only (Prerecorded)
(Level A) For prerecorded audio-only and prerecorded video-only media, the following are true, except when the audio or video is a media alternative for text and is clearly labeled as such:
| Entire sampleResult: Not Applicable | Entire sampleObservations: n/a |
1.2.2: Captions (Prerecorded)
(Level A) Captions are provided for all prerecorded audio content in synchronized media, except when the media is a media alternative for text and is clearly labeled as such. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
1.2.3: Audio Description or Media Alternative (Prerecorded)
(Level A) An alternative for time-based media or audio description of the prerecorded video content is provided for synchronized media, except when the media is a media alternative for text and is clearly labeled as such. | Entire sampleResult: Supports HomeResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. HomeClearly labelled descriptive transcript provided for embedded video. |
Table 1.2 – Level AA | Conformance Level | Remarks and Explanations |
1.2.4: Captions (Live)
(Level AA) Captions are provided for all live audio content in synchronized media. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
1.2.5: Audio Description (Prerecorded)
(Level AA) Audio description is provided for all prerecorded video content in synchronized media. | Entire sampleResult: Supports HomeResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: See below for caveat. HomePasses with coverage from SC 1.2.3: Audio Description or Media Alternative (Prerecorded) (Level A) |
Table 1.3 Adaptable
Table 1.3 – Level A | Conformance Level | Remarks and Explanations |
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1.3.1: Info and Relationships
(Level A) Information, structure, and relationships conveyed through presentation can be programmatically determined or are available in text. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
1.3.2: Meaningful Sequence
(Level A) When the sequence in which content is presented affects its meaning, a correct reading sequence can be programmatically determined. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
1.3.3: Sensory Characteristics
(Level A) Instructions provided for understanding and operating content do not rely solely on sensory characteristics of components such as shape, color, size, visual location, orientation, or sound. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
Table 1.3 – Level AA | Conformance Level | Remarks and Explanations |
1.3.4: Orientation
(Level AA) Content does not restrict its view and operation to a single display orientation, such as portrait or landscape, unless a specific display orientation is essential. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
1.3.5: Identify Input Purpose
(Level AA) The purpose of each input field collecting information about the user can be programmatically determined when:
| Entire sampleResult: Not Applicable | Entire sampleObservations: n/a |
Table 1.4 Distinguishable
Table 1.4 – Level A | Conformance Level | Remarks and Explanations |
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1.4.1: Use of Color
(Level A) Color is not used as the only visual means of conveying information, indicating an action, prompting a response, or distinguishing a visual element. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
1.4.2: Audio Control
(Level A) If any audio on a Web page plays automatically for more than 3 seconds, either a mechanism is available to pause or stop the audio, or a mechanism is available to control audio volume independently from the overall system volume level. | Entire sampleResult: Not Applicable | Entire sampleObservations: n/a |
Table 1.4 – Level AA | Conformance Level | Remarks and Explanations |
1.4.3: Contrast (Minimum)
(Level AA) The visual presentation of text and images of text has a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1, except for the following:
| Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
1.4.4: Resize text
(Level AA) Except for captions and images of text, text can be resized without assistive technology up to 200 percent without loss of content or functionality. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. Passes at 200%. |
1.4.5: Images of Text
(Level AA) If the technologies being used can achieve the visual presentation, text is used to convey information rather than images of text except for the following:
| Entire sampleResult: Not Applicable | Entire sampleObservations: n/a |
1.4.10: Reflow
(Level AA) Content can be presented without loss of information or functionality, and without requiring scrolling in two dimensions for:
| Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
1.4.11: Non-text Contrast
(Level AA) The visual presentation of the following have a contrast ratio of at least 3:1 against adjacent color(s):
| Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
1.4.12: Text Spacing
(Level AA) In content implemented using markup languages that support the following text style properties, no loss of content or functionality occurs by setting all of the following and by changing no other style property:
| Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
1.4.13: Content on Hover or Focus
(Level AA) Where receiving and then removing pointer hover or keyboard focus triggers additional content to become visible and then hidden, the following are true:
| Entire sampleResult: Not Applicable | Entire sampleObservations: n/a |
Section 2 Operable : User interface components and navigation must be operable.
Table 2.1 Keyboard Accessible
Table 2.1 – Level A | Conformance Level | Remarks and Explanations |
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2.1.1: Keyboard
(Level A) All functionality of the content is operable through a keyboard interface without requiring specific timings for individual keystrokes, except where the underlying function requires input that depends on the path of the user's movement and not just the endpoints. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
2.1.2: No Keyboard Trap
(Level A) If keyboard focus can be moved to a component of the page using a keyboard interface, then focus can be moved away from that component using only a keyboard interface, and, if it requires more than unmodified arrow or tab keys or other standard exit methods, the user is advised of the method for moving focus away. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
2.1.4: Character Key Shortcuts
(Level A) If a keyboard shortcut is implemented in content using only letter (including upper- and lower-case letters), punctuation, number, or symbol characters, then at least one of the following is true:
| Entire sampleResult: Not Applicable | Entire sampleObservations: n/a |
Table 2.2 Enough Time
Table 2.2 – Level A | Conformance Level | Remarks and Explanations |
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2.2.1: Timing Adjustable
(Level A) For each time limit that is set by the content, at least one of the following is true:
| Entire sampleResult: Not Applicable | Entire sampleObservations: n/a |
2.2.2: Pause, Stop, Hide
(Level A) For moving, blinking, scrolling, or auto-updating information, all of the following are true:
| Entire sampleResult: Not Applicable | Entire sampleObservations: n/a |
Table 2.3 Seizures and Physical Reactions
Table 2.3 – Level A | Conformance Level | Remarks and Explanations |
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2.3.1: Three Flashes or Below Threshold
(Level A) Web pages do not contain anything that flashes more than three times in any one second period, or the flash is below the general flash and red flash thresholds. | Entire sampleResult: Not Applicable | Entire sampleObservations: n/a |
Table 2.4 Navigable
Table 2.4 – Level A | Conformance Level | Remarks and Explanations |
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2.4.1: Bypass Blocks
(Level A) A mechanism is available to bypass blocks of content that are repeated on multiple Web pages. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
2.4.2: Page Titled
(Level A) Web pages have titles that describe topic or purpose. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
2.4.3: Focus Order
(Level A) If a Web page can be navigated sequentially and the navigation sequences affect meaning or operation, focusable components receive focus in an order that preserves meaning and operability. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
2.4.4: Link Purpose (In Context)
(Level A) The purpose of each link can be determined from the link text alone or from the link text together with its programmatically determined link context, except where the purpose of the link would be ambiguous to users in general. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
Table 2.4 – Level AA | Conformance Level | Remarks and Explanations |
2.4.5: Multiple Ways
(Level AA) More than one way is available to locate a Web page within a set of Web pages except where the Web Page is the result of, or a step in, a process. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
2.4.6: Headings and Labels
(Level AA) Headings and labels describe topic or purpose. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
2.4.7: Focus Visible
(Level AA) Any keyboard operable user interface has a mode of operation where the keyboard focus indicator is visible. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
2.4.11: Focus Not Obscured (Minimum)
(Level AA) When a user interface component receives keyboard focus, the component is not entirely hidden due to author-created content. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
Table 2.5 Input Modalities
Table 2.5 – Level A | Conformance Level | Remarks and Explanations |
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2.5.1: Pointer Gestures
(Level A) All functionality that uses multipoint or path-based gestures for operation can be operated with a single pointer without a path-based gesture, unless a multipoint or path-based gesture is essential. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
2.5.2: Pointer Cancellation
(Level A) For functionality that can be operated using a single pointer, at least one of the following is true:
| Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
2.5.3: Label in Name
(Level A) For user interface components with labels that include text or images of text, the name contains the text that is presented visually. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
2.5.4: Motion Actuation
(Level A) Functionality that can be operated by device motion or user motion can also be operated by user interface components and responding to the motion can be disabled to prevent accidental actuation, except when:
| Entire sampleResult: Not Applicable | Entire sampleObservations: n/a |
Table 2.5 – Level AA | Conformance Level | Remarks and Explanations |
2.5.7: Dragging Movements
(Level AA) All functionality that uses a dragging movement for operation can be achieved by a single pointer without dragging, unless dragging is essential or the functionality is determined by the user agent and not modified by the author. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
2.5.8: Target Size (Minimum)
(Level AA) The size of the target for pointer inputs is at least 24 by 24 CSS pixels, except where: | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
Section 3 Understandable : Information and the operation of user interface must be understandable.
Table 3.1 Readable
Table 3.1 – Level A | Conformance Level | Remarks and Explanations |
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3.1.1: Language of Page
(Level A) The default human language of each Web page can be programmatically determined. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
Table 3.1 – Level AA | Conformance Level | Remarks and Explanations |
3.1.2: Language of Parts
(Level AA) The human language of each passage or phrase in the content can be programmatically determined except for proper names, technical terms, words of indeterminate language, and words or phrases that have become part of the vernacular of the immediately surrounding text. | Entire sampleResult: Not Applicable | Entire sampleObservations: n/a |
Table 3.2 Predictable
Table 3.2 – Level A | Conformance Level | Remarks and Explanations |
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3.2.1: On Focus
(Level A) When any user interface component receives focus, it does not initiate a change of context. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
3.2.2: On Input
(Level A) Changing the setting of any user interface component does not automatically cause a change of context unless the user has been advised of the behavior before using the component. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
3.2.6: Consistent Help
(Level A) If a Web page contains any of the following help mechanisms, and those mechanisms are repeated on multiple Web pages within a set of Web pages, they occur in the same order relative to other page content, unless a change is initiated by the user: | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
Table 3.2 – Level AA | Conformance Level | Remarks and Explanations |
3.2.3: Consistent Navigation
(Level AA) Navigational mechanisms that are repeated on multiple Web pages within a set of Web pages occur in the same relative order each time they are repeated, unless a change is initiated by the user. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
3.2.4: Consistent Identification
(Level AA) Components that have the same functionality within a set of Web pages are identified consistently. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
Table 3.3 Input Assistance
Table 3.3 – Level A | Conformance Level | Remarks and Explanations |
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3.3.1: Error Identification
(Level A) If an input error is automatically detected, the item that is in error is identified and the error is described to the user in text. | Entire sampleResult: Not Applicable | Entire sampleObservations: n/a |
3.3.2: Labels or Instructions
(Level A) Labels or instructions are provided when content requires user input. | Entire sampleResult: Not Applicable | Entire sampleObservations: n/a |
3.3.7: Redundant Entry
(Level A) Information previously entered by or provided to the user that is required to be entered again in the same process is either: | Entire sampleResult: Not Applicable | Entire sampleObservations: n/a |
Table 3.3 – Level AA | Conformance Level | Remarks and Explanations |
3.3.3: Error Suggestion
(Level AA) If an input error is automatically detected and suggestions for correction are known, then the suggestions are provided to the user, unless it would jeopardize the security or purpose of the content. | Entire sampleResult: Not Applicable | Entire sampleObservations: n/a |
3.3.4: Error Prevention (Legal, Financial, Data)
(Level AA) For Web pages that cause legal commitments or financial transactions for the user to occur, that modify or delete user-controllable data in data storage systems, or that submit user test responses, at least one of the following is true:
| Entire sampleResult: Not Applicable | Entire sampleObservations: n/a |
3.3.8: Accessible Authentication (Minimum)
(Level AA) A cognitive function test (such as remembering a password or solving a puzzle) is not required for any step in an authentication process unless that step provides at least one of the following: | Entire sampleResult: Not Applicable | Entire sampleObservations: n/a |
Section 4 Robust : Content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies.
Table 4.1 Compatible
Table 4.1 – Level A | Conformance Level | Remarks and Explanations |
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4.1.2: Name, Role, Value
(Level A) For all user interface components (including but not limited to: form elements, links and components generated by scripts), the name and role can be programmatically determined; states, properties, and values that can be set by the user can be programmatically set; and notification of changes to these items is available to user agents, including assistive technologies. | Entire sampleResult: Supports | Entire sampleObservations: No issues discovered. |
Table 4.1 – Level AA | Conformance Level | Remarks and Explanations |
4.1.3: Status Messages
(Level AA) In content implemented using markup languages, status messages can be programmatically determined through role or properties such that they can be presented to the user by assistive technologies without receiving focus. | Entire sampleResult: Not Applicable | Entire sampleObservations: n/a |
This report covers the degree of conformance for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2. Therefore other details and standards have not been included.