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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Diverse Abilities and Barriers

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This informative document from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) explores the wide diversity of people and abilities, illustrating conditions that people with disabilities may face while using your products and services (websites, mobile or desktop applications, etc.

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Selecting Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools

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There is an abundance of web accessibility evaluation tools out there. They differ in features, how they work, the way in which they show evaluation results, type of issues identified, and many other aspects.

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Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List (W3C)

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Web accessibility evaluation tools are tools you can use to evaluate wether web content (websites or applications) meets accessibility standards and guidelines, identifying actual issues and potential ones; some of them are also designed to be used as development aids.

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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2 Overview

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This informative document provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) introduces the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). It explains their purpose, illustrating the reasons why they are important and how they get developed.

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Introduction to Web Accessibility

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When websites and applications are properly designed and coded, people with disabilities can use them. However, currently many sites and tools are developed with accessibility barriers that make them difficult or impossible for some people to use.

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WAI-ARIA Overview

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Provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as an informative document, WAI-ARIA overview is a tutorial specifically crafted to introduce what the WAI-ARIA is, describe its purpose, and illustrate the role of all supporting documents making the specification (called the WAI-ARIA suite).

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ARIA in HTML

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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

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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

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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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EPUBCheck

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Developed by the DAISY consortium on behalf of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), EPUBCheck is a tool that can be used to validate the conformance of EPUB publications against the EPUB specifications.

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EPUB 3.2

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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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Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) Report Tool

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Being developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) report tool is a web service designed to help accessibility testers and evaluators report on the accessibility of authoring tools.

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