Accessibility resources by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3c)

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international organization that, quoting its official website, “develops open standards to ensure the long-term growth of the Web”. In this section you can find relevant accessibility resources released by the W3C, or one of its working groups like the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

Resources

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Accessibility Principles

Vincenzo Rubano
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All requirements coming from accessibility standards and guidelines can be grouped around some basic principles, which can perhaps be much easier to grasp and consider (especially during the earlier phases of the development process).

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Earl Overview

Vincenzo Rubano
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Provided by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), this informative document contains an introduction to the Evaluation and Report Language (EARL).

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Developers Guide for Evaluation and Report Language (EARL)

Vincenzo Rubano
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Being published as a working group note by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), developers guide for evaluation and report language (EARL) is… Surprise! A guide to help developers understand how to implement support for this schema, whose goal is to enable sharing test results across web-accessibility evaluation tools in a platform-independent, vendor-neutral way.

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World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Accessibility Standards Overview

Vincenzo Rubano
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This introductory document from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) can be seen as an “entry point” to make it through the various (a lot of) accessibility-related standards and supporting documents provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

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Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Overview

Vincenzo Rubano
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This guide from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) introduces the [Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules]({{z ref “act-rules.md” >}}), a set of practical rules that can be used to test the accessibility of a website or application.

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Stories of Web Users

Vincenzo Rubano
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Imagining how people with disabilities use the Web and mobile devices can be hard. Reading all those standards, guidelines, specifications, tutorials and whatnot can be daunting, especially if you cannot make sense of the reason why your web content, mobile or desktop applications must satisfy certain requirements.

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