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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are part of a series of Web accessibility guidelines published by the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines () are part of a series of Web accessibility guidelines published by the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative ().

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 current version is 2.1, which became a W3C Recommendation on 05 June 2018, content that conforms to WCAG 2.1 also conforms to .

The publication of WCAG 2.1 does not deprecate or supersede WCAG 2.0. While WCAG 2.0 remains a W3C Recommendation, the W3C advises the use of WCAG 2.1 to maximize future applicability of accessibility efforts.

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Getting accessibility right for HTML tables

I have a data table used in a page that needs to meet WCAG 2.0 AA accessibility standards, but I am being told by my client that the table is not meeting basic accessibility standards. My client is using an online service called Cynthia Says which…
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WCAG compatible removal of image alt text from google search

Since we optimized our HTML markup for WCAG 2.0, we have a lot of (sometimes ugly) image descriptions in the google search results including our google site search. Does anyone knows a way to hide them from the result…
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How to Make Datepicker Comply with WCAG 2.0?

Recently I have received a project to make a webpage comply with WCAG 2.0 Level A. The part that I am running into a problem at the moment is the datepicker component. The datepicker component allows the user to select the date in two ways. One way…
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Sharepoint page, remove auto generated HTML line to pass WCAG Web standard

We are trying to achieve WCAG Web standard on our website, but an error is coming on the below HTML code.I would like to remove the below code but this is autogenerated by Sharepoint. HOw can I resolve this problem?
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Is using text-indent to provide a short description to a sprite image WCAG compliant?

I'm trying to get a site I'm working on to be WCAG 2 compliant. The site uses image sprites and it would be a challenge to replace the usage of image sprites throughout. As such I'm trying to determine whether the following technique:
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Will ACTF aDesigner/aiBrowser useful for manual accessibility testing

I am looking for tool for manually testing the web application pages for accessibility compliance. ACTF's aDesigner/aiBrowser looks very good and provides good automated testing. In the same ACTF's browser if user wants to examine the attributes of…
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Accessibilty for WCAG Standards - How to handle a label within a label

I'm trying to figure out how to mark up some code using WCAG standards, but it's a little complicated when I run into this situation:
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jQuery slider re-positions when tabbing through content

When tabbing through linked content within a jquery slider, the slide position jumps to the link in :focus, breaking the alignment of the slides. Standard keyboard navigation is important to me for accessibility purposes. fairly in-experienced…
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Is HTML5 valid with WCAG 2.0 Level AA?

I'm not familiarized with the english accessibility specifications. I know with RGAA in France we can't use HTML5 because we must be compatible with IE6 (no-js), and the most part of screen readers are based on it. RGAA and accessiweb Silver are…
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Layout tables and WCAG 2 error

I know that WCAG 2.0 allows tables for layout, yet for some reason achecker keeps giving me the following error: Check 245: Data table with more than one row/column of headers does not use id and headers attributes to identify cells Repair: Add id…
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Accessibility and Text Resizing: Do I still need to use ems if I no longer support IE6?

WCAG 2.0 says: (1.4.4) Resize text: Except for captions and images of text, text can be resized without assistive technology up to 200 percent without loss of content or functionality. (Level AA) And elaborates with: The scaling of content is…
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Should we take users who disable javascript into account for accessibility?

Are users who disable javascript (which are low in number) a topic for accessibility? To make everything accessible without javascript is more time consuming than to make site compatible for IE6. My question is actually how many people keeps…
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TotalValidatorPro issues

I am trying to get TotalValidatorPro to crawl a page that requires a login. Even if I put the login information in the authtification tab. It wont go passed the login page. Even if Im already logged in and I try to start the validator from the…
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How can I replace the screen reader audio with a prerecorded audio file?

I work on a multilingual website that will contain many languages that are not normally written, and I wonder if there are any ways to get this working for people using screen readers? Is it possible to give a text an attribute to make the screen…
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WCAG 2.0: Difference between Technique H44 and Technique F68

Could someone explain the difference between Technique H44 and Technique F68 ? They relate to the same set of instruction and seem quite identical to me.
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