A guide to help people learn more about the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
This guide was previously known as the WCAG Primer.
It contains:
- an overview of WCAG.
- information for each success criterion - including an understandable explanation, details of what is required, example of common issues and links to further content
- the most relevant success criteria for content, design and code
- some questions to help you evaluate if a digital product meets WCAG
https://alphagov.github.io/guide-to-wcag/
This guide to WCAG is for everyone. You can help make sure it stays up to date by:
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Making changes to the guide to WCAG on Github. To contribute to this repository, you first need to fork it. You can raise pull requests from your forked copy.
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Emailing the Accessibility Guide team at [email protected] with suggestions
This repo uses Middleman. To test changes locally, run:
bundle exec middleman server
The text lives in the source/sc folder, and is in Markdown format.
This project is continuously deployed - merging a pull request into main will
cause the site to be built and any changes added to the gh-pages branch.