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Three New WCAG 2.1 Changes To Know

  • March 20, 2019
  • cielo24
  • WCAG

If you do not already know them, there are three new WCAG 2.1 changes that you need to know…

As technology continues to expand, exponentially influencing our lives more every day, the guidelines used worldwide to ensure accessibility to all individuals must expand, as well. This past June of 2018, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published the latest update to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, version 2.1.

17 new success criteria were added to the previous protocols under WCAG 2.0. These new criteria are backward compatible, meaning organizations in compliance with version 2.0 need only add these 17 new measurements of conformance in order to meet the requirements of WCAG 2.1.

What is interesting to note is that the 17 new success criteria fit into three major areas of change – mobility, low-vision usability, and cognitive disabilities.

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