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The European directive on web accessibility for all UK public sector websites became law on 23rd September 2018, This covers everyone from central Government all the way down to local authorities and parish councils. With a co…
Read more of “European directive on accessibility regulations – next steps”Over the last few blog posts we’ve been looking more into the success criteria that were included in the updated Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1. In the final part of this series, today we are looking at Status M…
Read more of “WCAG 2.1 – What is Status Messages?”As part of an ongoing series, we’re looking into the latest criteria that have been added in WCAG 2.1. In this blog post, we’ll be looking into Motion Actuation. We’ve mentioned in a few posts that one of the re…
Read more of “WCAG 2.1 – What is Motion Actuation?”Over the last few blog posts we’ve been examining the recent additions to the WCAG guidelines. In this blog post, we’ll be looking into forms, controls and their labels. What’s in a name? Every object and item that w…
Read more of “WCAG 2.1 – What is Label in Name?”When we think about accessibilty and websites, we might think of keyboard only users, or speech users who interact with a website using their voice. However, many users, including those without a disability, interact with a websi…
Read more of “WCAG 2.1 – What is Pointer Cancellation?”In our main WCAG 2.1 blog post, we mentioned that one of the main reasons why the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the latest 2.1 guidelines was because of the introduction of mobile devices and touchscreens. Mobile devic…
Read more of “WCAG 2.1 – What is Pointer Gestures?”As part of our ongoing series looking at the new criterion found in WCAG 2.1, today we’re looking at keyboard shortcuts and how they may be adapted to the needs of a user. Keyboard shortcuts are useful as they can be quicker t…
Read more of “WCAG 2.1 – What is Character Keyboard Shortcuts?”Over the last few blog posts we’ve been looking at the new success criteria found within WCAG 2.1. Continuing with this series, in this post we will be looking at Content on Hover or Focus. Sometimes forms may be complicated bu…
Read more of “WCAG 2.1 – What is Content on Hover or Focus?”We’re continuing our series looking at the new Success Criteria in WCAG 2.1. In this post, we’re looking at Text Spacing. Reading is one of the great pleasures of life. It allows us to communicate with each other, to r…
Read more of “WCAG 2.1 – What is Text Spacing?”Dig inclusion were invited to a fantastic event recently – a huge UK purchaser wanted to engage with SME’s and invited them in to showcase their services but also talk about the hurdles SME’s have when completing tenders for pr…
Read more of “Accessibility – the perfect procurement process”