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).
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ATAG overview is a document that introduce the Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 standard. It describes the “ratio” behind this specification, as well as providing all the context that is necessary to understand why things have been organized in “the way they are”.
Read moreATAG at a glance is a document that paraphrases and summarizes Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 with (hopefully) clearer, more understandable terms. The main intent of this document is to help people understand the content of the ATAG specification, summarizing and paraphrasing concepts that may be hard to grasp while reading the proper specification.
Read moreSpeech 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 moreIn this document from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), you can find a collection of the most frequently asked questions about the WAI-ARIA specification, how it is supported by web browsers and assistive technologies, and things you can do to start using this specification.
Read moreIn this interactive resources provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) you can view Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, principles, success criteria, techniques for satisfying them, and examples of common failures.
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 moreImplementing Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 can be considered as “a guide to understanding and implementing Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0”. In particular, this W3C Working Group Note provides useful information to authoring tool developers who wish to satisfy the success criteria in the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.
Read moreThis web service provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) allows you to easily check wether your web page conforms to the specification of the language it is written into (e.
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.
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