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In our ongoing series we’re continuing to look at the new WCAG 2.1 criteria, which is the current standard from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) of testing websites for accessibility. These new criteria have been created to m…
Read more of “WCAG 2.1 – What is Non-text contrast?”In our recent blog posts, we’ve been looking at each of the new criterion that have been added in WCAG 2.1. Continuing on this series, this post will look at 1.4.10 – Reflow. Imagine that you’re trying to read a b…
Read more of “WCAG 2.1 – What is Reflow?”In order to help understand the WCAG 2.1 guidelines, we’ve created this series of blog posts that we hope will explain the purpose of the new additions. Continuing with this series, in this post we’re looking at cri…
Read more of “WCAG 2.1 – What is Identify Input Purpose?”In a previous post we mentioned that one of the main reasons why the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) developed the WCAG 2.1 guidelines was that they were influenced by the introduction of mobile devices and the ten year old WCAG 2.0 …
Read more of “WCAG 2.1 – What is Orientation?”The latest Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) have a new of new criteria. As part of an ongoing series, we are producing blog posts on each of these to explain in detail what these …
Read more of “Looking deeper into WCAG 2.1”11 November 2018 doesn’t just mark 100 years since Armistice, but also 100 years since the start of changing attitudes towards people with disabilities. I think most people would agree, that in war there are no winners, but t…
Read more of “100 Years on, how attitudes towards disability have changed”The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are recommendations for websites and their content to make them accessible for people with disabilities, produced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). WCAG 2.0 has been around sinc…
Read more of “What is WCAG 2.1?”In July the Government Digital Service (GDS) wrote a blog post on why they use HTML instead of PDF. This post generated a large response on Twitter and on their blogpost through comments. There was so much response that GDS added an u…
Read more of “Will PDF survive the new EU accessibility regulations?”Christmas advert campaigns have changed and adapted as the way people consume media has changed. Adverts are no longer reserved just for the television but are used as part of a larger marketing plan including websites and social m…
Read more of “Christmas ad accessibility – It isn’t too late”An EU Directive is coming into force that will require public sector bodies to provide accessible websites and apps. This is a fantastic step toward making sure that all websites are accessible, with public sector bodies leading the …
Read more of “The Public Sector and Accessibility”