Strategies, standards, and supporting resources to help you make the Web more accessible to people with disabilities. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops international standards for the Web: HTML, CSS, and many more. The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops standards and support materials to help you understand and implement accessibility. You can use W3C WAI resources to make your websites, applications, and other digital creations more accessible and usable to everyone. Making the Web Accessible
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(updated monthly) See What We're Working On – Accessibility Activities and Publications (2022-12-06) Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules help evaluation tools and methodologies produced accurate, consistent results. ACT Rules help test accessibility
standards more reliably. Learn more About ACT Rules. We encourage evaluation tools and methodologies to implement the individual ACT Rules and to share your implementation report on the W3C WAI website. Learn about submitting an implementation. (2022-11-08) Collaboration Tools Accessibility User Requirements is available as a First Public Draft Note. It addresses features and capabilities unique to interactive, collaborative content creation and editing applications. We particularly invite input on additional user needs and issues that are not yet addressed in this early draft, including the needs of users with
cognitive and learning disabilities. Please send comments by 30 December 2022. (2022-09-29) Curricula on Web Accessibility now has new content author modules. This curricula provides a framework for creating courses on digital accessibility, for including accessibility in other courses, and for reviewing
and comparing existing and proposed courses. The September 2022 publication adds new content author modules. These modules focus on teaching accessibility to writers, editors, content creators, and content publishers. News
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ACT Rules for Accessibility Evaluation Tools And Methodologies
For Review: Collaboration Tools Accessibility
User Requirements - First Draft
Updated Resource: Content Author Modules in Curricula on Web Accessibility
New Resource: Accessibility Course List
(2022-09-19)
Course List - Digital Accessibility Education, Training, and Certification includes publicly-available courses around the world. We expect to add more courses in the coming weeks. We invite course providers to submit your courses. We may also revise the user interface based on additional user feedback. Please send any comments by 17 October 2022.
Call for Implementations: WCAG 2.2 Candidate Recommendation
(2022-09-06)
WCAG 2.2 is now officially a ‘Candidate Recommendation’. We’re seeking examples of how the new ‘success criteria’ are implemented in websites and web apps. We plan to publish the finalized WCAG 2.2 in December 2022. Please see status and updates in What’s New in WCAG 2.2 Draft. Please submit implementations and any comments by 4 October 2022.
For Review: Accessibility Maturity Model - Group Draft Note
(2022-09-06)
The Accessibility Maturity Model Draft Note is available for review and comment. The document is designed to help organizations track and improve the accessibility of their products, services, and internal support of people with disabilities. For more information, see the blog post that addresses "Why Does Accessibility Need a Maturity Model?". Please submit any comments by 16 October 2022.
Updated: Making Events Accessible - Checklist for meetings, conferences, training, and presentations that are remote/virtual, in-person, or hybrid
(2022-08-31)
Making Events Accessible: Checklist for meetings, conferences, training, and presentations that are remote/virtual, in-person, or hybrid is updated. It helps presenters, participants, and organizers make events inclusive, particularly to people with disabilities. This benefits everyone, particularly international participants.
The free "Introduction to Web Accessibility" online course provides the foundation you need to make your digital technology accessible. It's designed for: About the Free Online Course Captions are the audio information in text that is synchronized with the audio and visual content. Captions are called "subtitles" in some regions. Video Captions are essential for people with disabilities and benefit everyone in a variety of situations. This media resource helps you understand and create captions/subtitles, audio description of visual information, descriptive transcripts, and sign language for media. It introduces user experiences and benefits to organizations. Making Audio and Video Media Accessible See what we have for you: Get Resources for…
Training Course: Digital Accessibility Foundations
Web Accessibility Perspectives: Video Captions