Standard: no information about what WCAG is
aduggin opened this issue · comments
Providing some information about what WCAG is will help people understand why we require people to follow it and how it will help them make a service more accessible.
- guidelines that specify how to make websites accessible, primarily for people with disabilities
- created by international accessibility experts at the W3C with input and feedback from people with disabilities
- considers the needs of people with disabilities and age related impairments with respect to the common barriers that they face when using a web site as well as the technologies that people use to overcome impairments and barriers (assistive technologies)
- considers people with:
- visual impairments, including colour blindness, low vision and blindness
- hearing impairments, including people who are non-signing and hard of hearing and people who are Deaf and use BSL
- physical impairments such as having restricted upper body mobility and not being able to use a mouse or not having fine motor control
- cognitive impairments such as dyslexia, learning difficulties and being on the autistic spectrum which means that understanding and navigating content may be difficult
- considers assistive technologies such as:
- using a web browser to customise the layout of a website by specifying preferred font, font size, font colour and background colour
- using a keyboard to navigate a website instead of a mouse
- using software that converts text to audio (screen readers) so that content that is available visually is available through hearing
using software that converts text to touch (electronic braille) so that content that is available visually is available through touch as braille - using software that makes content more legible by magnifying everything on screen and that can increase the colour contract (screen magnifiers)
- using software that allows people to navigate a website with their voice and input content through dictation (speech recognition software).