Making the website open to as many visitors as possible is a key aim of the JAINpedia project. The website thus follows guidance on technical accessibility and accessibility in terms of editorial approach.

Accessibility details

The technical team has made sure that:

• databases are scalable, flexible, robust and secure
• the website conforms to benchmark accessibility standards WAI WCAG 2.0, with the aim of AA compliance
• digitised images meet Library of Congress standards
• metadata for the images meets METS (LoC) records standards
• descriptive metadata follows Dublin Core protocols
• intellectual copyright for the images and contextual content is protected
• the site is compatible with a broad variety of common browsers
• user and end-user needs are taken into account in the design, development and maintenance of JAINpedia.