Most of the new WCAG 2.1 success criteria are related to, and have the goal to address people’s needs, around the following: The expectation is that the ACA will adopt “the latest standard for web accessibility” which at the time, will mean either WCAG 2.1 or 2.2, once this is enforced. The Accessible Canada Act (ACA) was passed by the government of Canada on June 21, 2019, bringing accessibility legislation at the federal level for all provinces, not just Ontario (where the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) has been in effect since 2005). Now that WCAG 2.1 is the new official W3C recommendation for web accessibility, we expect that there will be an increasing expectation for websites to live up to WCAG 2.1 and likely 2.2. Up until now WCAG 2.0 has widely been considered the de facto standard for ADA compliance of websites. It doesn’t reference any particular standard. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) only states in Title III that communication, including web/internet, must be made accessible. In the US, Section 508 was updated to WCAG 2.0 (entering into force January 18, 2018), it is not clear if and when it will get updated to WCAG 2.1. The first deadline for EU member states to report to the European Commission on their compliance with WCAG 2.1 at Level AA is September 23, 2020. The EU web accessibility directive that came into force in EU member states on the 23 September 2018 references WCAG 2.1 as the standard to be used. WCAG 2.1 was made an official W3C recommendation on June 5, 2018. Siteimprove is working to write automated checks for WCAG 2.1 success criteria where possible. For example, criteria related to mobile, conformance must be tested manually with the device. Given this information, it is easy to understand why the majority of the new success criteria at 2.1 cannot be tested automatically.
In WCAG 2.1, new success criteria have been added to address this. This includes the preferences of those with low vision and cognitive disabilities. More information is now available to understand user needs. For this reason, there are new success criteria relating specifically to mobile and tablet interactions.Īlso, considerations for certain user groups were not recognized at the time. A lot has changed in 10 years, in both technology itself and usage of websites, and the need for accessibility, on devices beyond the desktop experience. The WAI-Tools Project has been extended into early 2021, and we are at the stage of writing new checks to as pr. The purpose of this work is to write a set of standardized rules that measure conformance with WCAG 2.0 and 2.1. Since 2017, Siteimprove has participated in co-authoring the new set of accessibility conformance rules (ACT) for conformance with WCAG 2.1 within the W3C ACT Task Force. Learn more about the new Siteimprove checks in the NextGen platform.Learn more about the new features of NextGen and timelines.
They are part of the next release of the new version of the Siteimprove Accessibility product.
This led us to add checks for WCAG 2.1 - 1.3.4 Orientation (A), 1.3.5 Identify Input Purpose (AA) and 2.5.3 Label in Name (A). Shortly after the release of WCAG 2.1 we reviewed the criteria to see which could be validated through automated testing within our platform. On August 11, 2020, a working draft of an additional set of guidelines, WCAG 2.2, was released. In 2018, W3C released 17 new success criteria to WCAG 2.0 thereby introducing WCAG 2.1. Siteimprove is a member of the W3C and actively participates in the standardization efforts within the area of digital accessibility. WCAG is the international standard for web accessibility, developed by the (World Wide Web Consortium) W3C, the internet standard organization that is also responsible for HTML and CSS standards. WCAG stands for "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines". Which success criteria are automated in the Siteimprove platform?.Is WCAG 2.1 backward-compatible with WCAG 2.0?.What is the difference between WCAG 2.0 and 2.1?.