If you ever wonder when the a11y community would have a standard rule set for native Android and iOS apps, well, you may rejoice now!In a recent joint press release at CSUN 2019, Deque Systems and Microsoft have announced their partnership to release Axe for Android and iOS. As Axe for native apps are going…
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 is now a W3C Recommendation. This is an evolution of W3C’s accessibility guidance, including expansion of mobile, low vision, and cognitive and learning provisions. It maintains W3C’s accessibility guidance, while maintaining W3C’s standard of implementable, technology neutral, objectively testable and universally applicable accessibility guidance. Publication as a W3C Recommendation…
The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1. WCAG 2.1 covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Following these guidelines will make content more accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing…
Learn how to identify issues and design solutions for information and communication technology (ICT) accessibility customers and employees with disabilities. Course Summary About this course In this introductory course, learn how to measure an organization’s ICT accessibility and assess the importance of maintaining an inclusive workplace for both employees and customers with disabilities. This six-week…
The EPUB 3 Working Group is pleased to announce that the first Editor’s Draft of EPUB 3.1 is now available for community review. A condensed summary of the changes being put forward for review is available in the EPUB 3.1 Changes from 3.0.1 document. The approach taken in this first draft of propositioning potentially controversial…
Deque Systems a leading Accessibility company has open sourced their accessibility rules engine aXE which is a light weight JavaScript library that will work with any modern browser & technology. Developers can leverage the aXe rules engine to automate their accessibility scans & get more accurate results, with more than 15yrs of experience Deque Systems…
