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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Core Accessibility Api Mappings 1.1

Vincenzo Rubano
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Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.1 is a recommendation provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that aims to standardize the way in which user agents expose semantics of web content languages to accessibility APIs.

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User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0

Vincenzo Rubano
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User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0 is a W3C working group note especially aimed towards user agent developers “to help them design user agents that make the Web more accessible to people with disabilities”.

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Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) rules

Vincenzo Rubano
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Also known as “WCAG 2 test rules”, Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) rules describe how to test conformance to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) success criteria. They are primarily intended for usage by developers of evaluation tools and test methodologies.

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Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0

Vincenzo Rubano
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Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 is a W3C recommendation that provides guidelines for designing web content authoring tools that are both more accessible to people with disabilities and designed to enable, support, and promote the production of more accessible web content by all authors.

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WAI-ARIA 1.1

Vincenzo Rubano
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The WAI-ARIA (Active Rich Internet Applications) is a W3C recommendation that defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities.

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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1

Vincenzo Rubano
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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 lie the foundation to evaluate the accessibility of web content in a “technology-agnostic” way: this means that they are abstract enough so as to be applied no matter what technologies and tools are used to produce web content, yet be “practically enough” to be tested to check for content conformance.

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