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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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Telephone numbers and screen readers

Is there a standard way to make screen readers spell out numbers? I am currently using NVDA and Firefox and have the following telephone number

01234 567890

This is read as Zero one two three four five hundred and sixty seven thousand eight…
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How to write good alt text for images to help screen reader and blind user to understand what is picture about?

How to write good alt text for images to help screen reader and blind user to understand what is picture about ? and if we are using Alt text then what should be in a Title="text" if we are using both in special cases like menu images etc
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accessibility and using javascript

I wanted to get something cleared up and that is the use of Javascript on websites with regards to WCAG. Am i correct that the use of Javascript is fine as long as it does not stop a user from accessing the content of the website or achieve an…
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What ARIA state role to use for current page in navigation

Recently I've been implementing ARIA into a web application and I found this question to be quite helpful in the improving the navigation parts. After implementing this in all modules, I discovered this HTML validation error: Attribute…
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How to implement accessibility linting in GitHub actions?

I want to upgrade our GitHub workflows with accessibility linting based on WCAG 2.1. If it's possible I want to define the level too like AA. I don't want to run a full test on a website, only make a quick linting on the pull requests. The whole…
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"[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents"; best way to fix that?

I have a simple accordion:
I use Javascript to open/close…
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Web accessibility - behaviour of screenreaders when configured to read 'title' attribute

I've been advised that if a 'title' attribute expands upon what's present in a control's visible text, it should include all information in the visible text, because the screenreader may read the title instead of the visible text. To clarify…
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Anchor element found with a valid href attribute, but no link content has been supplied

I am trying to modify my site so that it complies with the WCAG standards. I am generating links with no content but these are marked as errors. I have been redirected to the fix by the editor(H91) but it does not really solve my case. How should I…
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Does using a placeholder as a label comply with WCAG 2?

I get that using placeholder text as a label is not very accessible, but does it technically go against WCAG 2? I could not find anything explicit but I wonder if a more lawyerly reading of that standard would find something in there.
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Does VS2010 or .NET 4.0 have any new tooling support for Accessibility?

What kind of tooling support or helpers does VS2010 or .NET 4.0 provide to developers in the way of accessibility? Anything new for creating 508-compliant markup? Anything new in the way of supporting WAI-ARIA specific attributes on…
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Why is target="_blank" not advisable to use with XHTML?

It's valid in XHTML 1.1 and WCAG 2.0 guidelines don't have any info about its usage? I know it's not valid in XHTML 1.0 strict, but if many people are using other things like JavaScript, jQuery, rel attribute, PHP etc. Does it make sense? It means…
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React Native working with NativeBase: WARN NativeBase: The contrast ratio of 1:1 for darkText on transparent

I'm programming a React Native App using NativeBase.io In my app where I use NativeBase I am getting the following error.....how do I fix this? Here is the error: WARN NativeBase: The contrast ratio of 1:1 for darkText on transparent falls below…
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Aria-hidden=true on parent does not make its children also aria-hidden

I am reading a bit on aria uses, and came across this piece of documentation:Fourth Rule of ARIA Use. One part that is not clear to me is this: "Applying aria-hidden to a parent/ancestor of a visible interactive element will also result in the…
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WCAG 2.0 guidelines mailto link text

I'm trying to find guidance from WCAG guidelines about link text in an anchor with a mailto:email address. Can the link-text be the persons name or is it advisable to have the link-text be the email address?
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SVG accessibility causing invalid HTML (duplicate ID's)

Have an interesting one for the hive. I've done quite a bit of searching about and haven't found an answer to this on S.O. or elsewhere. I am working on making our website as accessible as possible, this includes providing text alternatives to…
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