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Recommendation from the W3C, which explains to developers and authors how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines are part of a series of Web accessibility guidelines published by the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative . The current version is 2.1, which became a W3C Recommendation on 05 June 2018, content that conforms to WCAG 2.1 also conforms to .

They consist of a set of guidelines for making content accessible, primarily for disabled users, but also for all user agents, including highly limited devices, such as mobile phones.

The primary considerations for web content are Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, Robust, and Conformance. Within each category there are several guidelines and breakdown for 3 levels of compliance (A, AA, AAA).

The WCAG 2.0 overview from W3C can be found here.

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Only show focus states once tab navigation has been used

I'm working on a site that requires WCAG 2.0 AA adherence, but although we try to make tab navigation usable on our sites, it does detract heavily from the design due to the strange borders and outlines being rendered when you click a focusable…
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Hidden content with assistive technology

I'm a little bit confused of how the hidden content is working with assistive technologies. I'll give you a few examples and would like you to explain me this, please: If I want to make a small popup, that is previously was display:none;, how would…
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make slider navigation accessible (jquery)?

I need to make a an existing slider navigation controls accessible (wcag2), meaning --> to enable full keyboard support for the Prev and Next buttons. 1. first I need to make sure that the buttons get focus when the user is navigating with the tab…
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WCAG 2.0 aria-labelledby for form header and disclaimer

I'm unsure on how a form is aria-labelledby or aria-describedby when you're trying to put a header and a disclaimer like "All fields are required unless marked optional" disclaimer at the top of your form. I think this is how I think it's done, but…
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Does compliance to WCAG 2.0 AA use ul tab as navigation tabs in a master page?

I've got an aspx web application that uses an unordered list tags to parse a tab menu inside a master page. My question is: is it ok to use an ul tag according to WCAG 2.0 AA?
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Prevent devxpress parse tag in ASPxPopupControl

First of all sorry about my English I hope not injury your eyes with my awful grammar and I'll appreciate if You tell me some mistake I make. I've got a devexpress ASPxPopupControl control inside a UserControl that works fine. However i want my…
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How to prevent href attribute getting read by NVDA screenreader?

NVDA in IE11 is reading url of Link specified as href attribute. Role tab is used on the link. This is causing issue in screen-reader compliance. How to prevent href getting read? Is it a browser and screen-reader compliance issue?
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Can H2 heading visually look like H1 and vice versa according to WCAG rules?

I am into Accessibility testing. In my case we have Two headings

Heading One

Heading Two

Visually H1 looks smaller than H2 due to the CSS property added to…
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Dynamic email images that comply with WCAG 2.0

In-order to deliver personalized ads thru email, we refer the tag src to our servers that return a personalized image ad. Now that we have to comply to WCAG 2.0 standard, we'll need to dynamically fill the alt attribute too. How can we achieve…
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Do we need alt text for Instagram feed to meet WCAG 2.0 AA compliance level?

We all know that decorative images do not need a descriptive alt text. It just needs a null alt text. However, if I am getting an instagram feed, then are these images decorative or meaningful? Btw, I am talking about WCAG 2.0 AA accessibility…
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Should a bigger text above h2 be h2 also?

If I have a promo hero stuffs before the first header of a page as in the attached image, then should the heading text of the hero stuff be done with a header element as in h1/h2 etc. or just normal p text? I need it to be WCAG 2.0 AA…
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Accessibility of third-level domain and links to second-level domain

I'm coding a third-level domain site (accessible.example.com) following WCAG 2.0 accessibility standards. The final work will be submitted to an independent certification authority in order to obtain a mandatory certification, so I need to minimize…
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How to find an accessible color by changing lightness only?

Is the following hypothesis true? For any given color: { Hue, Saturation, Lightness_1 } there exists: Lightness_2 such that the contrast ratio between: { Hue, Saturation, Lightness_1 } and { Hue, Saturation, Lightness_2 } is at least 4.5. Bonus…
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Is phpMyAdmin WCAG 2.0 compliant?

I have a requirement that all my internet and intranet web sites be WCAG 2.0 level A and AA compliant by the end of 2015. Right now, I just need to identify what is/isn't compliant and how much effort is it to make it compliant. If phpMyAdmin is…
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Are there any accessibility guidelines to compare background color of a button with background color of a page?

Color of my button:#73c998 Background color of my page: #2C6C9E While this tool below tests the colors as if one of them was a text color, do we have anything for background to background comparison? See link: …
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