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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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Accessibility issue using ARC Toolkit in Aggrid

We are using Arc Toolkit for running our WCAG compliance check and we are seeing an issue in this grid Issue 1: Non-active element in tab order Description The element has been placed in the Tab order using tabindex="0", but it lacks a specific…
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ADA Compliance Language Missing or Invalid for video transcription txt files

Reaching out to see if any ADA compliance experts might know how I might resolve an ADA compliance issue pertaining to our video transactions. We essentially provide links to .txt files for all of our videos which contain the video transcription.…
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WCAG Score vs. Rating - why is a score of 5.5 rated AAA, with another of almost 7 rated AA?

Using Firefox and its Web Developer tools, I am seeing a score of 5.5 rated AAA, with another of almost 7 rated AA. I've searched for WCAG score vs rating and a couple related searches but found no instance of even an attempt at an explanation. Can…
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Fire Fox does not count table rows in NVDA Screen Reader, but does in Chrome

I am trying to make an accessible expandable table (taking this as inspiration: https://fuschia-stretch.glitch.me/ , check out "View souce"), but the NVDA screen reader do not read the number of columns in Fire Fox, but reads them in Chrome. Here…
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Force screen reader to read acronym by his full name

How can I force a screen reader to read M as Monday? (using https://www.nvaccess.org) I would like to have it more WCAG friendly Problems: div don't support aria-label…
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Is removing a link underline on hover not WCAG compliant?

I'm trying to find a definitive answer to this accessibility question. If I set the underline on all links by default... a { text-decoration: underline; } ...and remove the underline on hover... a:hover { text-decoration: none; } ...is…
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mat-select is not level A compliant according to AInspector WCAG

I'm using Angular material in my website and trying to make it WCAG level A compliant. Doing some checks with the AInspector (extension for Firefox) seems the mat-select component don't have aria-controls, aria-expanded attributes, but looking at…
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Should buttons have labels from WCAG point of view?

I am building an app which has to be WCAG compliant. It requires about 12 buttons. Some of the buttons have only tooltips and icons but no labels. I haven't been able to find clear cut language in WCAG about this problem. Are titles necessary for…
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WCAG 3.2.4: "export", "refresh", "add" buttons on different pages allowed?

I have "export", "refresh" and "add" buttons on different pages. The "export" button exports content of the current page. "Add" adds items depending on the page a user is on (users, servers etc.) and "refresh" refreshes the current page. Is that…
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How do I make the screen reader not say the list contains certain number of items?

When I tab into the following structure, the anchor tag (link) is focused and the screen reader says, list with three items XYZ Anchor. Is is possible to make the screen reader not say "list with three items" and just say "XYZ Anchor"?
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How do WCAG 1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum) and 1.4.11 Non-text Contrast relate to text in UI components?

WCAG 2.1 introduced success criterium 1.4.11 Non-text Contrast for UI components like checkboxes, sliders etc. Would it be safe to ignore 1.4.11 for the background-colour within a button, as long as the text inside has sufficient contrast as well to…
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WCAG - Screen Reader NVDA reading placeholder information

I came across a problem working with a screen reader (NVDA) reading placeholder information when it was not supposed to. I have input with a title and placeholder. The screen reads placeholder first and then reads the title:
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How to provide accessible description to the HTML button list?

I have a lengthy list of buttons that I want to make WCAG compliant. Many of the items have endnotes (marked with an asterisk) as below. What is the proper way to provide the accessible description for these endnotes? As far as I know, some browsers…
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Wordpress span insert for WCAG

Is there any way to remove that erros to pass the wcag certificate? You can see the photo with the errors here: https://prnt.sc/20xrbrx Must have 0 errors to pass that certificate, I searched and i see that if insert an extra span like
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WCAG - link or button? Start an action by first navigating to a page where you configure data and start the real action

WCAG indicates roughly: buttons are for starting actions, links are for navigation. What to do when I want to start an action, the app first navigates to a page where the user configures action settings and then start the real action? The intention…
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