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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Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 3.0)

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Pronounced “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.

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Timed Text Markup Language 2 (TTML2)

Vincenzo Rubano
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Timed 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.

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Vue Axe Next

Vincenzo Rubano
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Kind of a successor to vue-axe, vue-axe-next is an open source library that facilitates automated accessibility testing of web applications developed by leveraging the Vue.JS framework.

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Essential Components of Web Accessibility

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Essential Components of Web Accessibility is a document provided by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in which the relationships of different components (browsers, operating systems, specific technologies, etc) and how they contribute to web accessibility are described.

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WAI-Aria Authoring Practices 1.1

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WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1 is a W3C working group note that provides readers with a detailed understanding of how to leverage WAI-ARIA 1.1 to make web pages and applications more accessible.

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Core Accessibility Api Mappings 1.1

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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

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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

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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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