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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2

Dataset

Summary

Type:
Technical standards and specifications
Applies To:
Public sector systems and services
Impacts On:
All public sector bodies, providers and their IT suppliers
Conformance Date:
01 October 2024
Topics:
Accessibility
Alternate Name:
WCAG

Documentation

Description:
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 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 accommodations for blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity, and combinations of these, and some accommodation for learning disabilities and cognitive limitations; but will not address every user need for people with these disabilities. These guidelines address accessibility of web content on desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile devices. Following these guidelines will also often make Web content more usable to users in general.

Document Control

Mandated:
Yes
Status:
active

Registration

Registration Status:
standard
Registration Authority:
W3C

Legal Authorities

Legal Authority:
Other legal basis
Legal Authority Description:
The full name of the accessibility regulations is The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) Accessibility (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022. The accessibility regulations build on your existing obligations to people who have a disability under the Equality Act 2010 (or the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 in Northern Ireland).