While EN 301 549 is the technical standard cited in the European Accessibility Act (EAA), EN 17161 Design for All is a framework that supports embedding accessibility into strategy, design, and development processes. Both are harmonised standards used by the EAA and yet all the focus has been on EN 301 549. This post explores how the two standards relate to each other, and what that means for providers of digital products and services.| TetraLogical
The European Accessibility Act (EAA) requires that products and services made available to citizens of the European Union (EU) are accessible. Like most EU Directives, the EAA (DIRECTIVE (EU) 20191882) is hard to understand, and this has left many people unsure about what it means - and more importantly, what they need to do to make sure their products and services comply. With this in mind, we'd like to share our understanding of the EAA as it applies to digital products and services.| TetraLogical
EU legislation, technical standards and W3C international best practice on web accessibility.| Shaping Europe’s digital future
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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 covers a wide range of recommendations for making web content more accessible. Following these guidelines will make content more accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including accommodations for blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity, and combinations of these, and some accommodation for learning disabilities and cognitive limitations; but will not address ...| www.w3.org