Standards and Guidelines

In this section you can find a list of accessibility standards and guidelines, along with some useful information on their purpose and application domain. Generally speaking, such standards can be grouped in two different groups:

  • the “abstract” ones, that are conceived to provide abstract rules and guidelines so as to make them applicable to a broader range of elements;
  • the “highly specialized ones”, that tend to focus on a very specific aspect (e.g. a web technology, a single characteristic, etc.) and therefore are highly technical.

In addition to this, sometimes such documents can be a little bit hard to understand if you are not familiar with the topic they cover: don’t be scared, though! Wherever possible, support resources to help you get a better understanding will be also provided in other section of the website.

Resources

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)

Vincenzo Rubano
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Quoting its[Wikipedia page]§(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders): The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a publication by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for the classification of mental disorders using a common language and standard criteria and is the main book for the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders in the United States and is considered one of the “Bibles” of psychiatry

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EPUB Accessibility 1.0

Vincenzo Rubano
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Made available by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) (now merged with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)), EPUB accessibility establishes several guidelines to allow the evaluation and certification of accessible EPUB Publications, as well as enabling the discovery of the accessible qualities of EPUB Publications.

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ARIA in HTML

Vincenzo Rubano
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Published in 2021, ARIA in HTML is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specification that defines the authoring rules (author conformance requirements) for the use of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.

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EPUB Accessibility Techniques 1.1

Vincenzo Rubano
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Published as a working group note by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), EPUB Accessibility Techniques is a document that provides guidance on how to meet the EPUB Accessibility discovery and accessibility requirements for EPUB publications.

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Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0

Vincenzo Rubano
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Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0 is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation that extends the WAI-ARIA specification to define a set of roles aimed at helping users of assistive technologies navigate through long-form documents.

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EPUB 3.2

Vincenzo Rubano
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Published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as a working group specification, this document describes version 3.2 of EPUB, a format that provides a means of representing, packaging and encoding structured and semantically enhanced Web content for distribution in a single-file container.

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Web Speech Api

Vincenzo Rubano
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The so called “Web Speech API” is a set of APIs that allow you to integrate support for speech in your websites or applications. It is made of by two main parts:

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DAISY 3.0

Vincenzo Rubano
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officially known as ANSI/NISO Z39.86-2005 (R2012), revision of ANSI/NISO Z39.86-2002 “Specifications for the Digital Talking Book”, DAISY 3.0 is the third major version of a standard that defines the format and content of the electronic file set that comprises a digital talking book (DTB) and establishes a limited set of requirements for compatible DTB playback devices and applications.

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