Accessibility Statement

The internet should be available and accessible to anyone, regardless of ability

The International Code Council is committed to providing information to help ensure safe, affordable, and sustainable communities and buildings worldwide. Making this information as accessible as possible to all is an important part of that commitment.

To that end, ICC is working to follow the WCAG 2.2 guidelines published by the W3C. Our ultimate goal is that our web properties and web content produced by ICC internally all meet or beat all success criteria at the A and AA levels, with any exceptions clearly noted in the Accessibility Statements of the appropriate property or page.

Feedback or Requests

If you have any feedback or have a specific request for accessible content, please contact the Customer Success Team. We are committed to making our best effort to provide digitally accessible content and will work with you to manage any specific needs if possible.

If you are requesting an accessible version of specific content, please make sure to provide a link to the content you are looking for, or share the specific title and version of a publication you are requesting.

 

Current State of Digital Accessibility

ICC is currently implementing regular automated testing on all internally managed web properties. We have partnered with an accessibility consultancy (Deque) who are helping us by conducting manual audits, providing training to our staff, and helping us improve our processes so we produce accessible content and code by default.
We are currently working through a transition plan and not all content currently meets our ultimate goals. We will provide individual statements for specific sites as these processes and audits help us improve our accessibility.

 

Screen Reader Recommendations

Codebooks and other technical content include a variety of necessary punctuation that is not often read by screen readers set to the standard verbosity settings. ICC recommends checking the verbosity/punctuation recognition settings of your screen reader. Deque has information on the state of punctuation and screen reader settings available

Issues and Limitations

Some content on ICC websites may be provided by third-parties. While ICC will make requests to those third parties to provide accessible content, we will still publish this content even if the third parties are unable to provide accessible or alternative versions of the content.

 

Site-Specific Statements

All site-specific statements will be listed and linked here as they are published.  Site-specific statements will include limitations and contact information for site-specific teams.