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:
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.
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Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) is a W3C recommendation designed to provide a rich, XML-based markup language for assisting the generation of synthetic speech in Web and other applications.
Read morePublished in 2014, WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide is a W3C recommendation that contains a “user agent developer’s guide to understanding and implementing the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) specification.
Read moreAccessible Name and Description Computation 1.1 is an important W3C recommendation that explains how user agents (which are not limited to web browsers only) should compute the so called “accessible name” and “accessible description” of each element found in a web page.
Read moreAn often overlooked aspect about web accessibility is the fact that, in order to make life easier for assistive technologies, it is essential that web pages conform to the HTML standards, and elements provided by the language are used appropriately.
Read moreThe past is not dead! Actually, it’s not even past. You know who said that? Faulkner. And he was right. No, this is neither “midnight in Paris” (the film), nor an attempt to paraphrase William Faulkner’s “Requiem for a Nun”.
Read moreThis document describes the syntax and features provided by Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) version 1.1, a modularized language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML.
Read morePronounced “smile”, Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 3.0) defines an XML-based language that allows authors to write interactive multimedia presentations. Using SMIL 3.0, an author may describe the temporal behavior of a multimedia presentation, associate hyperlinks with media objects and describe the layout of the presentation on a screen.
Read moreTimed Text Markup Language (TTML) 2 is both a format and a markup language to represent timed text media for the purpose of interchange among authoring systems.
Read moreQuoting the official W3C recommendation, Mathematical Markup Language (MathML for short) “is a markup language for describing mathematical notation and capturing both its structure and content.
Read moreQuoting its official website, “AsciiMath is an easy-to-write markup language for mathematics”. While it is not (and probably will never become so) an official standard, its syntax is very well described, yet allows for enough flexibility to act as a “de-facto” standard for concisely and effectively representing math formulas.
Read moreTechniques for WCAG 2.1 is an informative document provided by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at W3C, to provide guidance for developers and accessibility evaluators on meeting WCAG 2.
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