The Bureau of the Shanghai World Expo Coordination is committed to making the official Website of World Expo 2010 Shanghai China (“our website”) broadly accessible, including to users with disabilities or impairments that occur with aging.  For guidance, we look to the accessibility best practices and standards defined by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) of the World Wide Web Consortium Web Accessibility Initiative (W3C WAI).

Since 2008, the Bureau of the Shanghai World Expo Coordination has been working to improve the accessibility of our website. The processes require new pages to meet a set of accessibility requirements which include:

●Providing aids to navigation for screen reader users such as:

●Proper markup for identifying the page title (i.e. an <h1> element).

●Providing text equivalents for images and image map hot spots;

●Providing null text equivalents on decorative images;

●Identifying row and column headers for data tables;

●Programmatically associating labels with form fields;

●Using valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional markup language;

●Supporting browser settings for enlarging text and user style sheets;

●Using consistent navigation mechanisms and style of presentation throughout our website;

●Keyboard navigation of web pages;

●Identifying the primary natural language of each page;

●Ensuring JavaScript is used correctly on our website so that it is interoperable with assistive technologies;

Accessibility testing using automated tools and manual procedures is performed on new content and applications.  We strive to make our website accessible and continuously work on accessibility improvements.  If you encounter an accessibility problem while accessing our website, please contact us about that problem using the Contact link on the front page.

Note: The Bureau of the Shanghai World Expo Coordination is not responsible for the accessibility of third party sites which be linked from our site.

Accessibility features:

The Easy Web Browsing (EWB) tool in our web site can serve users experiencing vision loss, seniors, persons with reading challenges and novice IT users by providing a host of features that enable them to browse our web site more effectively and comfortably.  Easy Web Browsing can:

●Adjust webpage’s text and background colors to be more suitable for the specific user;

●Adjust the size of the text on webpages, to a maximum of six times its size;

●Vocally transmit ("speak") the information on the webpage, the speed and volume of which can be adjusted by the user;

●Enlarge the webpage on which the information is being vocally transmitted aloud;

●EWB can literally "speak" in several languages, including Chinese, English, Japanese, French, etc.  Whatever site the user is browsing, the tool automatically adjusts itself to the language the webpage is in.