In the Summer of 2018, WCAG 2.0 will be updated to version 2.1 with new guidelines for making websites even more accessible. In this post I’ll try to give simple explanations of these guidelines along with thoughts and advice on how to follow them.
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New guidelines in WCAG 2.1
Before explaining the new guidelines in WCAG 2.1, you should know that WCAG 2.1 is backward compatible with WCAG 2.0. This means that:
- The previous categories and guidelines still apply
- The numbering still applies
- The basic principles still apply
- The three levels of success criteria (A, AA, AAA) still apply
So, here are the new guidelines as of February 2018. The detailed documentation from W3C can be found at w3.org/tr/wcag21.
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