On October 5th, 2023, W3C announced the latest version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2. WCAG are used by as a set of guidelines to help ensure websites, applications and digital content is accessible to everyone. WCAG 2.2 builds on WCAG 2.1 with nine new success criteria.
If you are involved in digital content, knowing about and ensuring you are meeting the guidelines of WCAG 2.2 is critical to your content being accessible to all. The guidelines are easy to understand and help to ensure you consider a wide range of abilities and how your design choices impact the usability of your product.
I found this great map outlining WCAG 2.2 criteria - Find out more about the WCAG 2.2 Map
“So for a person that is using something like a keyboard or a switch control to control the computer because they have very limited motor movement, they need to be able to see the indicator of where the focus is to know that when they press enter, they’re pressing enter on the right thing,” said Glenda Sims, chief information accessibility officer at Deque Systems, a company that provides tools to help developers with accessibility efforts.
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