There’s More to Accessibility than WCAG

WCAG is the most globally used and commonly understood set of accessibility guidelines used by organisations to ensure the accessibility of websites, apps and other digital comms for people with disabilities. It’s the yard stick by which the accessibility of digital products is usually measured.

However, while it is brilliant in many areas, there are many elements of accessibility and needs of people with disabilities that the current version of WCAG (2.2) doesn’t adequately cover.

WCAG 3.0 will expand into some of these in the future. But how do you bring that future into the work you’re doing right now, especially when regulations require you address the needs of people that WCAG overlooks?

This webinar will help you do that, covering:

  • Why are people so fixated on WCAG? What are its strengths?
  • Where does it fall short? And what benefits do you get from going beyond it?
  • Is WCAG 3.0 going to save us? And when can we expect it to be available?
  • Going beyond WCAG because it’s not enough for your product – for mobile apps, VR, print media, kiosks and ATMs
  • Going beyond WCAG because it’s not enough for your users – for neurodivergent and older people
  • Going beyond WCAG because its assumptions don’t hold for your users – writing text at the right reading age for your users, and handling the impact of digital literacy
  • Going beyond WCAG by doing your own user research to identify your users’ needs, and how to use those insights to guide you.

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