Hi friends 👋🏻

This week, a super-helpful new resource to help you understand website accessibility guidelines. Useful if you're a website manager interacting with a developer or agency, AND if you're developing content for a website and need to understand your responsibilities even if you're not touching the code.

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Making WCAG easier to understand

If you're a website owner (or designer/developer), you've probably heard of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

When reviewing a website to see if it meets accessibility standards, you might know that you need to meet the "AA success criteria for WCAG 2.2".

When you go to the official WCAG website to look at the current guidelines, the amount of content feels pretty overwhelming. The actual standards documents themselves are long and complex (as you would expect), and even the "Quick Reference Guide" is daunting and technical.

This is why I was pleased to see the launch of a new WCAG in Plain English resource from the accessibility consultants at Aaardvark.

The WCAG in Plain English resource includes all 87 success criteria (yes, there are 87 of them), and provides simple summaries of what you need to do to meet the level A, AA, and AAA compliance standards.

You can explore the resource by theme, responsibility, or principle (take a look and you'll see what I mean).

For example, if you're responsible for content on a website, you can turn on the "Content" responsibility filter to only see the accessibility guidelines that you need to pay attention to.

It's an excellent resource, and I recommend adding it to your bookmarks, as I have done ✅

Thanks to Natalie MacLees from Aaardvark for sharing this!

Until next time ✨

— Ed Harris (your digital strategy guide)

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