Expert Resources: WCAG
These are the items that relate to WCAG found on the AbilityNet website. They may be factsheets, webinars, news stories, blog posts or reports.
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Emma Wheeler | 18 Apr 2024To celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), we are sharing a quick beginner's guide to accessibility. You will find out what accessibility means, it's laws and guidelines, steps to add into your workflow, resources and more.
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Alex.Barker | 14 Mar 2024Our Factsheet provides clear, practical guidance on how to provide feedback or make a complaint when encountering barriers with websites, mobile apps or self-service kiosks. It will also be of interest to organisations that want to ensure their websites are accessible.
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Kelly Chan | 07 Dec 2023Join our free webinar with our expert accessibility and usability consultants, Alice Taylor and Claire Poste will take you through the new criteria, share helpful tips on understanding them, as well as illustrating how WCAG 2.2 impacts you and your customers.
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Guest Blogger | 12 Jan 2023Helen Wilson shares her experience of teaching digital accessibility in the workplace and details about the Learn to Enable Digital for Everyone project.
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Robin Christopherson | 04 May 2021Version 1.0 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) launched on May 6, 1999. We review how they've impacted digital accessibility and why?W3C publishes the WCAG - one of the reasons they've become the de facto world standards for all things web (and soon mobile) and why they've proved to...
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Robin Christopherson | 11 Mar 2021On the anniversary of its birth, we ask “is the web accessible to all?”The “power of the web is in its universality,” said Tim Berners-Lee, who submitted the original proposal that would ultimately become the worldwide web on 12 March 1989. Thirty-two years later AbilityNet's Head of Digital...
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Guest Blogger | 22 Sep 2020In local government, this week's web accessibility deadline has helped focus minds and ensure that accessibility is pushed to the forefront.
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Guest Blogger | 17 Jan 2020SCULPT is a new way to remember the basics of web accessibility, developed within Higher Education, but of value to anyone who wants to make their website more accessible.
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Robin Christopherson | 18 Dec 2018On 11 December 2008, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published an important update to their guidelines aimed at making the internet a more accessible place for people with disabilities. Ten years on and we’ve not seen much of an impact. Let’s look at why and what can be done to speed things up.
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Mark.Gaddes | 27 Mar 2018The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) continue to provide the benchmark for improving the accessibility of web content for people with health conditions and impairments. Version 2.1 was released in late January 2018 and our free webinar took a look at what's new in the guidelines.