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Accessibility Standards
Guidelines and technical specifications that ensure digital content, applications, and technologies are usable by people with disabilities, including standards like WCAG, Section 508, and ARIA. These standards help organizations meet regulatory requirements and demonstrate accountability to stakeholders.
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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2
The current stable web accessibility standard published by the W3C Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AG WG). WCAG 2.2 comprises 13 guidelines organized under four principles (perceivable, operable, understandable, robust) with succes…
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WAI-ARIA 1.2
Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.2 is a W3C Recommendation (June 2023) that defines semantic attributes enabling assistive technologies to interpret dynamic web content and complex interfaces. The suite includes Core Acce…
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Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0
ATAG 2.0 is a W3C Recommendation that defines standards for making authoring tools (CMSes, code editors, web-based tools) accessible to authors with disabilities, and for helping those tools generate accessible content.
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User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0
UAAG 2.0 is a W3C standard for browsers, browser extensions, media players, and other user agents that render web content. It defines how user agents should make web content accessible to users with disabilities either directly or in conju…
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Section 508
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act requires U.S. federal agencies to ensure their information and communication technology (ICT) is accessible to people with disabilities. The Revised 508 Standards (effective January 18, 2017) incorpora…
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Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.1
ACT Rules Format 1.1 (W3C Recommendation, February 2026) establishes a standardized format for documenting accessibility conformance testing rules. The framework supports automated, semi-automated, and manual testing and is used to create…
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Providers working in Accessibility Standards
Providers whose own tags share at least two of this topic's tags, most shared first.
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| accessiBe | accessiBe is a web accessibility technology company whose products help organizations make websites and web applications usable by people with disabilities and compliant with WCAG, the ADA, Section 508, AODA and the European Accessibility… | developing | 1 |
| Stark | Stark is a digital accessibility compliance platform used by more than 50,000 companies as their accessibility infrastructure across the entire software product lifecycle, from issue detection and remediation to insights and governance. St… | emerging | 0 |
| User1st | User1st is a web and mobile digital accessibility company whose U1 Suite gives organizations an efficient path to WCAG, ADA, and European Accessibility Act (EAA) compliance. It provides accessibility toolkits and remediation across web fra… | minimal | 0 |
| W3C | The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards body for the World Wide Web, founded by Tim Berners-Lee in 1994. W3C develops web standards and guidelines to ensure the long-term growth of the Web, focusing on acces… | thin | 1 |
| U.S. Access Board | The U.S. Access Board is an independent federal agency that promotes equality for people with disabilities through the development of accessibility guidelines and standards. The Board develops criteria for accessibility in the built enviro… | emerging | 0 |
| Design Standards | Design Standards encompasses the frameworks, guidelines, and best practices used in product, interface, and system design to ensure consistency, usability, and accessibility. Includes API design guidelines, naming and format conventions, a… | emerging | 1 |
| Echo Labs | Echo Labs is a San Francisco-based company building AI-powered media accessibility for higher education. Its platform audits, captions, and audio describes entire institutional video libraries within 24 hours, producing ADA / Title II and… | minimal | 0 |
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