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Accessible standards (WCAG)

Accessible standards (WCAG)

- [Narrator] Developers building accessible websites must understand the web content accessibility guidelines, and conform to them. WCAG 2.2 is a widely recognized accessibility standard for making web content accessible to everyone. It provides a set of principles, guidelines, success criterias and techniques to help make web content accessible to everyone. The following are the layers of guidelines to adhere to when implementing accessibility on your websites. First, we have principles. These basic principles form the foundation of web accessibility, and they include perceivable, operable, understandable and robust. There are testing guidelines that developers can follow to make their contents more accessible to users. These guidelines provide a framework for achieving the success criteria and improving the accessibility of the contents of your websites. There are three levels of conformance defined. There is level A, level AA and level AAA. These levels are designed to provide…

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