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Martha

*Martha K. Gabehart* | "Executive Director
"Kansas Commission on Disability Concerns (KCDC)
*Kansas Governor Laura Kelly
*900 SW Jackson, Suite 100 | Topeka, Kansas 66612
(785) 296-6525 (direct) | (785) 260-4027 (cell)

[email protected] | www.kcdcinfo.ks.gov [ [link removed] ]

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This message is from the US Access Board. The new website accessibility guidelines have been published.

News from the U.S. Access Board
November 29, 2023
W3C WCAG 2.2 Now Available

The Access Board congratulates the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group [ [link removed] ] (AG WG) with publishing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 [ [link removed] ] as a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendation. WCAG 2.2 adds nine new Success Criteria to WCAG 2.1 (which added 17 Success Criteria to WCAG 2.0) and includes links to supporting documents that explain how to make web content more accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities. The additional Success Criteria address barrier encountered by people with visual, mobility, hearing, and cognitive disabilities, but not covered by WCAG 2.1 or 2.0. The new requirements in WCAG 2.2 [ [link removed] ] address ways to help users navigate and find content, operate functionality more easily through various inputs beyond keyboard, develop webpages to appear and operate in predictable ways, and readily avoid and correct mistakes. Additionally, WCAG 2.2 includes personas [ [link removed] ] to help explain some aspects of the WCAG Success Criteria.

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