This week (5 June 2018) saw the release of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 as a W3C recommendation – meaning that the working group (which, among many others, included members from The Paciello Group) considers the guidelines stable and ready for implementation.
WCAG 2.1 builds on top of WCAG 2.0, and it still incorporates all the guidelines and success criteria of 2.0. As such, it is backwards-compatible: a site that adheres to WCAG 2.1 automatically also adheres to WCAG 2.0.
The aim of WCAG 2.1 is to provide guidance for aspects that were previously absent or underrepresented in 2.0. To this end, WCAG 2.1 includes 1 new overarching guideline (Guideline 2.5 Input Modalities) with 6 success criteria, as well as 11 new success criteria that fall under the existing guidelines already present in 2.0. These 17 new success criteria aim to address issues that affect:
- people using “mobile” devices (though note that this term is somewhat archaic, as the boundaries between traditional categorizations of “desktop”, “mobile”, “tablet” are constantly blurring)
- people with low vision who may be using screen magnification or large text/zoom
- people with cognitive and learning disabilities
- people using speech input / dictation software
The new success criteria
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Curated by (Lifekludger)
Read full article at Source: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 | The Paciello Group – Your Accessibility Partner (WCAG 2.0/508 audits, VPAT, usability and accessible user experience)
