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Accessibility.

This website is run by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and Research (CFIR). We want everyone to be able to read it and use it — whatever tools you browse with.

Two ways in

The immersive walk-through of the Foundation has a plain document alternative with no motion — it loads automatically when your system asks for reduced motion, and can be switched on at any time. Every page carries a skip link, a visible focus style, real text, and zoom without limits.

Compliance status

Partially compliant with WCAG 2.2 level AA. We are working toward full compliance; the known gaps are listed below.

Standard applied
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, level AA
Last tested
10 June 2026
Tested by
CFIR self-assessment: axe automated checks, keyboard-only passes, VoiceOver

Known barriers

We know about the following, and we are fixing them:

  • the immersive view cannot be operated with a keyboard alone — the document view carries the full content instead (WCAG 2.1.1 Keyboard)
  • some controls drawn over the immersive scene show no visible focus when you Tab to them (WCAG 2.4.7 Focus visible)
  • some small text in the immersive view’s corners sits below the required contrast (WCAG 1.4.3 Contrast)
  • pages opened inside the immersive view do not yet trap focus as a dialog should (WCAG 4.1.2 Name, role, value)
  • two pages — Voices and Seed grant recipients — are interactive visualisations: they carry a heading and a description for screen readers, and a full plain-text version of their content is in preparation (WCAG 1.1.1 Non-text Content)

How we tested

We tested the home page in both views, the news section, and every standing page on 10 June 2026 — with the axe-core automated checker, keyboard-only passes with visible-focus checks, zoom at 200%, and VoiceOver on macOS. Automated tools catch only part of the problems, so the keyboard and screen-reader passes are repeated whenever the site changes.

Enforcement

The Accessible Canada Act sets the federal framework for a barrier-free Canada; in Ontario, the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act applies. If you report a barrier to us and are not happy with the answer, you can raise it with the Accessibility Commissioner of Canada.

Report a barrier

If any part of this site is hard to perceive, operate, or understand with the tools you use, tell us what happened and the address of the page: info@research.ca. We reply within two working days.