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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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Does Silverlight 4 comply with the WCAG 2.0 specifications

I need to build a web application which complies with the WCAG 2.0 specification. One main feature of this application is that some code must be executed on the client. I don't have any way to avoid it (it's the old problem of the electronic sign).…
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Voice over doesn't read phone number properly

I have phone number in below format 1-1xx-2xx-9565 Currently VO read it as "One (pause) One x x (pause) two x x (pause) minus nine thousand five hundred sixty five". VO should read it as "One (pause) One x x (pause) two x x (pause) nine five six…
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WCAG vs real users' opinions

To make websites accessible, my policy so far has been to follow the WCAG--no more, no less. I assumed the WCAG was thorough and complete. Thus I assumed that if I followed every one of its recommendations, my sites would be irreproachable from an…
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How to highlight accesskeys in a WCAG valid way?

With HTML 'accesskeys' there is an effective way to increase the user's operating speed. In desktop applications, a user is shown the available shortcuts by underlining a letter of the operation to be performed. Transferring this concept to web…
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What is best practice (and legal) for product listing image alt text for accessibility?

I'm trying to determine what structure is best with regard to typical e-commerce product listing pages. I have reviewed WCAG and other sources and have not found a definitive solution as of yet. A typical product listing contains an image and a…
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accessibility when focused link is hidden behind a fixed-position footer when using TAB to proceed

I ran into a detail concerning accessibility, not in regard to screenreaders and blind users, but in regard to pure keyboard navigation. Edit / Addition: I would like to emphasize a part of my question which hasn't been addressed at all in the two…
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Do unselected checkboxes need to be >4.5 contrast ratio to be WCAG AA compliant?

I'm trying to understand the details of WCAG AA compliance. Would the unselected checkboxes in this image be considered too low-contrast to be compliant? Is there anything we can do (other than change the color) to make it more compliant? If…
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Accessibility on Apple voice over issue with fieldset legend

I am using Mac (10.8.5) and Safari [6.2.4]. I have created a field set to group my inputs and added a legend text to it. I have also applied css to hide the legend from the UI - but the legend and label are available in the DOM. NVDA on Windows/IE…
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Is forcing a user to open a link in the current tab WCAG2.0 accessible

We have inherited the maintenance of a 10+ year old website which has a few links in it that force the link to be opened in the current tab. You can't right click on the link and open in new tab, or even copy and paste the url, because it uses…
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Are ReactJS Websites WCAG Compliant?

If I were to create a website where all HTML content was generated by ReactJS components, will it be WCAG Level AA Compliant? Ie. will screen readers be able to navigate through content that's been rendered via javascript code? If the answer is…
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Do HTML errors count as WCAG errors?

I am trying to make a website WCAG compliant and read quite a lot about it but still one question remains: If the document has HTML errors, would it be considered WCAG 2.0 AA compliant? Following is the report generated by Total Validator. It has 2…
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Google Maps and WCAG 2.0 level A

I have a map that displays custom markers with filtering options and different markers colors based on the filtering options. Clicking a marker displays a text bubble with a picture as expected. What is required to make a google map comply with…
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WCAG compliant upload with progress bar

My searches have revealed a dizzying number of widgets for uploading files while giving some progress feedback to the user. Uploadify and fineuploader are great examples... that I would love to use... But these, and others seem to be lacking some…
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Do I need to use EM sizing for the layout to meet the WCAG 2.0 criteria?

According to the WCAG 2.0, EM units should be used as font-size, to meet the WCAG 2.0 minimum criteria: http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/Overview.php But I could not find anything about about using EM's for the layout. Can someone tell me if…
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How to make this part of my page section 508 and wcag 2.0 compliant

Hello compliance pros! I've been tasked with making our web-app compliant to the section 508 and wcag 2.0 guidlines. For most things this hasn't been too tricky, but i've hit a bit of a road block. I use qtip a lot in the app, which tends to be…
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