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Jan 11, 2024 · Starting from October 2024, services across the UK government will be monitored for WCAG 2.2 AA compliance. Thousands of government services will require WCAG 2.2 updates in 2024, so we've...
Make sure your service meets the new WCAG 2.2 criteria. WCAG 2.2 was published in October 2023. You’ll need to comply with the new criteria no later than October 2024. See more about Meeting...
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WCAG2.2 is based on 4 design principles: 1. perceivable 2. operable 3. understandable 4. robust By focusing on principles, not technology, they emphasise the need to think about the different ways that people interact with content. For example, users might: 1. use a keyboard instead of a mouse 2. change browser settings to make content easier to re...
The WCAG2.2 design principles are supported by 13 guidelines. Each of these is broken down into specific requirements (or ‘success criteria’) that your service needs to meet. From beta, you need to do regular accessibility testing to check your design, code and content meet WCAGlevel AA. To do this, you must meet all A and AA requirements. You shou...
Read the following resources for more information about meeting the WCAGguidelines: 1. W3C WCAG2.2 Quickref 2. Government Digital Service guide on how to test each WCAGcriterion 3. Home Office Accessibility Standard 4. WebAIM’s WCAG2.1 checklist 5. The University of Washington’s IT accessibility checklist
You might also find these guides useful: 1. Making your service accessible: an introduction 2. Testing for accessibility 3. Sample accessibility statement (for a fictional public sector website) 4. Designing for different browsers and devices 5. Using progressive enhancement
Starting from October 2024, services across the UK government will be monitored for WCAG 2.2 AA compliance. What is WCAG 2.2? WCAG 2.2 is the latest iteration of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and introduced additional Success Criteria.
Feb 9, 2022 · Monitoring looks at the accessibility of a site or mobile app against W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 levels A and AA. The Government Digital Service (GDS) also reviews...
Feb 4, 2011 · WCAG 2.2 was published as a “W3C Recommendation” web standard on 5 October 2023. Changes from WCAG 2.1 to WCAG 2.2. WCAG 2.2 provides 9 additional success criteria since WCAG 2.1. They are introduced on this page. The 2.0 and 2.1 success criteria are essentially the same in 2.2, with one exception: 4.1.1 Parsing is obsolete and removed from ...
Aug 20, 2020 · Technical standard for digital accessibility. The technical standard for websites and mobile apps is level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.2. How we test....