Panasonic Official Olympic & Paralympic Website
JIS X 8341-3:2016 Conformance Claim
(26th September, 2019)

Panasonic group’s Web sites adopted the W3C(World Wide Web Consortium) Recommendation “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0” as the global quality standards to make our websites more accessible.

On this page, the test results are published to show the status of the Panasonic Official Olympic & Paralympic Website (Japanese version and English version).The test was conducted based on “Appendix JB (Informative) Testing Method” in the Japanese Industrial Standard “JIS X 8341-3:2016”. “JIS X 8341-3:2016” has the same success criteria as “WCAG 2.0”.

Date of the claim

26th September, 2019

Guidelines title and version

JIS X 8341-3:2016

Conformance level satisfied

We tested 40 web pages (25 web pages were randomly selected) by using “d) Both core web pages and randomly selected web pages” of “JB.1.2 A set of web pages” in “Appendix JB (Informative) Testing Method”. The results were as follows.

  • Partial Conformance at Level A
    • However, 34 web pages of 40 web pages tested conformed to Level AA.
    • In addition, 6 web pages that partially conformed to Level A also meet all the success criteria of Level A and Level AA, except for the video content embedded in the web pages.

Note: “Conformance” and “Partial conformance” in this test results are defined in “JIS X 8341-3:2016 Conformance Notation Guidelines for Web Content” (https://waic.jp/docs/jis2016/compliance-guidelines/201603/) which was developed by Web Accessibility Infrastructure Committee of Info-communication Access Council.

A concise description of the Website

Japanese version and English version of Panasonic Official Olympic & Paralympic Website (under https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/) for PC and smartphone.

Web content technologies relied upon

HTML 4.01、CSS 2.1、JavaScript

A list of URI tested

The URLs of the target pages in the following test results has been changed due to the domain change caused by a company name change in 04/2022. In this test result, the list of URLs are the ones at the time the test was conducted.

  1. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/ja.html
  2. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/ja/history.html
  3. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/ja/paralympic.html
  4. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/ja/rio/solution/led.html
  5. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/ja/rio/support/dlp.html
  6. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/ja/solution.html
  7. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/ja/support.html
  8. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/us.html
  9. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/us/history.html
  10. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/us/paralympic.html
  11. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/us/pyeongchang/support/ramsa.html
  12. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/paralympic.html
  13. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/us/support.html
  14. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/us/vancouver/solution/broadcast.html
  15. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/youngchangemakers.html
  16. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/ja/sydney/support/astrovision.html
  17. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/sydney/support/broadcast.html
  18. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/ja/saltlakecity/support/astrovision.html
  19. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/vancouver/solution/ramsa.html
  20. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/ja/pyeongchang/solution/dlp.html
  21. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/ja/sydney/support/ramsa.html
  22. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/us/beijing/support/preparation.html
  23. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/us/sochi/solution/broadcast.html
  24. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/us/sochi/solution/led.html
  25. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/london/solution/broadcast.html
  26. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/ja/athens/support/ramsa.html
  27. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/saltlakecity/solution/astrovision.html
  28. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/sochi/support/hdvc.html
  29. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/us/sydney/solution/broadcast.html
  30. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/pyeongchang/solution/dlp.html
  31. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/us/atlanta/solution/astrovision.html
  32. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/sochi/support/broadcast.html
  33. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/beijing/solution/broadcast.html
  34. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/barcelona/solution/broadcast.html
  35. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/pyeongchang/support/360.html
  36. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/us/beijing/support/astrovision.html
  37. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/ja/london/solution/broadcast.html
  38. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/ja/youngchangemakers/collaborate.html
  39. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/us/rio/solution/sports.html
  40. https://www.panasonic.com/global/olympic/ja/atlanta/solution/astrovision.html

Checklist of success criteria

The numbers in the “Note” are the numbers in “A list of URI tested” above. They indicate the web pages which didn’t meet the success criterion.

Level A

Success Criteria Level Applicability Results Note
1.1.1 Non-text Content A Yes Pass  
1.2.1 Audio-only and Video-only (Prerecorded) A N/A Pass Not applicable
1.2.2 Captions (Prerecorded) A Yes Fail 3, 10, 12
1.2.3 Audio Description or Media Alternative (Prerecorded) A Yes Fail

2, 3, 9, 10, 12. 15

1.3.1 Info and Relationships A Yes Pass  
1.3.2 Meaningful Sequence A Yes Pass  
1.3.3 Sensory Characteristics A N/A Pass; Not applicable
1.4.1 Use of Color A Yes Pass  
1.4.2 Audio Control A N/A Pass Not applicable
2.1.1 Keyboard A Yes Pass  
2.1.2 No Keyboard Trap A Yes Pass  
2.2.1 Timing Adjustable A N/A Pass Not applicable
2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide A N/A Pass Not applicable
2.3.1 Three Flashes or Below Threshold A Yes Pass  
2.4.1 Bypass Blocks A Yes Pass  
2.4.2 Page Titled A Yes Pass  
2.4.3 Focus Order A Yes Pass  
2.4.4 Link Purpose (In Context) A Yes Pass  
3.1.1 Language of Page A Yes Pass  
3.2.1 On Focu A Yes Pass  
3.2.2 On Input A Yes Pass  
3.3.1 Error Identification A N/A Pass Not applicable
3.3.2 Labels or Instructions A Yes Pass  
4.1.1 Parsing A Yes Pass  
4.1.2 Name, Role, Valu A Yes Pass  

Level AA

Success Criteria Level Applicability Results Note
1.2.4 Captions (Live) AA N/A Pass Not applicable
1.2.5 Audio Description (Prerecorded) AA Yes Fail 2, 3, 9, 10, 12, 15
1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum) AA Yes Pass  
1.4.4 Resize text AA Yes Pass  
1.4.5 Images of Text AA Yes Pass  
2.4.5 Multiple Ways AA Yes Pass  
2.4.6 Headings and Labels AA Yes Pass  
2.4.7 Focus Visible AA Yes Pass  
3.1.2 Language of Parts AA N/A Pass Not applicable
3.2.3 Consistent Navigation AA Yes Pass  
3.2.4 Consistent Identification AA Yes Pass  
3.3.3 Error Suggestion AA N/A Pass Not applicable
3.3.4 Error Prevention (Legal, Financial, Data) AA N/A Pass Not applicable

Test period

From 10th July 2019 to 15th July 2019