Electronic imaging documents in this Standard shall be created in accordance with JIS Z 6016.

In addition, the recording media in this Standard are aimed at optical disks of high compatibility, which can preserve recordings for a long term.

It provides guidance on specific accessibility settings.

It specifies how to access and operate the accessibility setting mode, and how to directly activate specific accessibility features.

This Standard applies to all operating system user interfaces on computers, but can also be applied to other types of information/communication technology, where appropriate.

This Standard does not apply to the user interface before the operating system is loaded and active.

NOTE 1 The International Standard corresponding to this Standard and the symbol of degree of correspondence are as follows:

ISO/lEC 24786: 2009 Information technology-User interfaces-Accessible user interface for accessibility settings (IDT)

In addition, symbols which denote the degree of correspondence in the contents between the relevant International Standard and JIS are IDT (identical), MOD (modified), and NEQ (not equivalent) according to ISO/IEC Guide 21-1.

NOTE 2 In this Standard, requirements or recommendations for the user interface of computer is sometimes referred to simply as requirements or recommendations for the computer.

Clause 4 defines the degree of conformance to clause 7, and the success criterion concerning clause 7 to meet each attainment level is known.

In clause 6, the requirements that should be taken into consideration in each stage of planning, designing, production and development, verification, and maintenance and operation are specified.

The person responsible for a set of Web pages can test whether the produced and developed content conforms to this Standard at what level of clause 4 using the test method given in clause 8.

The disabilities of people with disabilities include blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech difficulties, photosensitivity and combinations of these.

NOTE: "Low vision" refers to "a state in which the problem associated with a visual function still interferes with everyday activities even if it is corrected with glasses" and it views effects on activities of persons with disabilities wider than it views effects on activities of persons with "weak eyesight" that refers to "vision after correction of both eyes of less than 0.3".

The Web content in this Standard refers to any information and sensory experience to be communicated to the users by means of a user agent such as a Web browser and assistive technology, and is applied, for instance, to the content used with a Web application, a Web system, a personal digital assistant, etc., the electronic document created using Web content technology distributed through Internet, intranet and on recorded media such as CD-ROM, and the devices etc. that are designed to be operated using a Web browser.