Web Accessibility Policy

Panasonic group is committed to ensuring that Panasonic group’s Web sites are accessible to all the customers who are using the Web. We adopted the W3C(World Wide Web Consortium) Recommendation “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0” as the global quality standards for Panasonic group’s Web sites.

The Japanese version of "Web Accessibility Policy" is also available.

Scope

All Web sites that Panasonic group companies are running.

However, the Web pages which include the uncontrolled codes provided by the third parties are exempt from our scope. The following Web pages are the specific examples which use third party content which could have accessibility issues.

  • Web pages using YouTube video players.
  • Web pages using Google Map.
  • Web pages using AddThis widgets.

Target Level

We aim to conform to WCAG 2.0, Level AA.

Conformance Claim

Guidelines title, version and URI

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 at http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/

Conformance level satisfied

Level AA (including the partial conformance for some pages)

A concise description of the Web pages

Home of “Panasonic Global” website and core web pages within “About Us” category (Both PC version and smartphone version).

Date of the claim

2017 Conformance Claim

2018 Conformance Claim

2019 Conformance Claim

2020 Conformance Claim

2021 Conformance Claim

Web content technologies relied upon

HTML 4.01, CSS 2.1, JavaScript

Change History

  • July 2, 2021 added the conformance claim for 5 Web pages
  • April 1, 2021, 2021 added the conformance claim for 55 Web pages
  • December 1, 2020 added the conformance claim for 37 Web pages
  • August 20, 2020 added the conformance claim for 9 Web pages
  • April 1, 2020 added the conformance claim for 1 Web pages
  • September 26, 2019 added JIS X 8341-3:2016 Conformance Claim for Panasonic Official Olympic & Paralympic Website
  • June 20, 2019 added the conformance claim for 13 Web pages
  • April 1, 2019 added the conformance claim for 25 Web pages
  • January 15, 2019 added the conformance claim for 3 Web pages
  • October 1, 2018 added the conformance claim for 3 Web pages
  • April 2, 2018 added the conformance claim for 55 web pages
  • October 1, 2017 added the conformance claim for 6 web pages
  • April 1, 2017 published “Web Accessibility Policy” including the conformance claim