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Accessibility statement

Accessibility at CFR Education

The Council on Foreign Relations is committed to making CFR Education (education.cfr.org) accessible to all learners and educators, including people with disabilities. Accessibility is part of how we design, build, and write — not an afterthought.

Conformance status

CFR Education aims to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA — the standard referenced by the U.S. Department of Justice’s ADA Title II web accessibility rule.

Based on a self-evaluation completed on July 8, 2026, CFR Education is fully conformant with WCAG 2.1 Level AA. “Fully conformant” means the content meets all Level A and AA success criteria, subject to the known limitations below.

How we assessed this

  • Automated testing of every page type using axe-core against the full WCAG 2.1 A/AA ruleset, plus an automated keyboard-navigation audit (focus order, focus visibility, skip links, keyboard traps).
  • Manual keyboard testing of all interactive components.
  • Manual screen-reader testing with VoiceOver on macOS/Safari.
  • These checks run on an ongoing schedule against the live site, so regressions are caught after launch, not just before it.

Known limitations

Despite our efforts, some content has constraints we want to be transparent about:

  1. Downloadable PDFs. Generated PDF versions of teaching materials are not yet fully tagged for screen readers. The same content is available as accessible HTML on the corresponding page, which we consider the primary version.
  2. Third-party embedded content. Some pages embed interactive charts (Datawrapper), videos (YouTube), and security widgets that are provided by third parties. We choose providers with accessibility support and configure embeds accessibly (titles, keyboard reachability, static alternatives where available), but cannot fully control their internals.
  3. Video captions and descriptions. Videos are published with captions. Where a video’s visual content is not fully conveyed by its audio track, we are reviewing the need for audio description on a per-video basis.

Feedback

If you encounter an accessibility barrier on CFR Education, please tell us — it genuinely helps:

Please include the page address and a description of the problem. We aim to respond within five business days.

Compatibility

CFR Education is designed to work with current versions of major browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge), at up to 200% zoom, in portrait and landscape orientation, and with assistive technologies including VoiceOver. It is built with standard HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WAI-ARIA.