Standards

Accessibility requires universal design to create products that can be used by anyone. This video introduces the established standards for HTML. Accessibility website of the Publications Office of the European Union: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/accessibility TRANSCRIPT [Automated voice:] Accessibility. Accessibility requires universal design to create products that can be used by anyone, regardless of their disabilities or impairments, within the widest possible range of situations. The established standards allow search engines to discover and find web pages. The better the digital information is encoded in these pages, the better they can be indexed. Essential accessibility requirements are outlined in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines of the World Wide Web Consortium and reflected in the European standard EN 301 546. These guidelines are based on four principles according to which a document must be: - Perceivable: people need to be able to grasp the provided content. - Operable: People need to be able to use all user interface components and navigation possibilities, such as the keyboard or mouse. - Understandable: The presented content must have a clear structure and use simple language. - Robust: So that web provided content can be interpreted reliably by a wide range of technologies, such as a mouse, keyboard, joystick or voice control. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines standard defines three levels of compliance: from A that represents the absolute minimum requirements for basic accessibility, to AAA that ensures the highest accessibility standards. As of January 2010 all new EUROPA websites have to comply with level AA. The most recent version of the Europa web guide includes the updates from WCAG 2.1 [Automated voice:] Accessibility. For more information, visit: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/accessibility