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Improve Your App With These 9 WCAG 2.2 Criteria
The newly released by W3C recommendation offers guidance to make your apps and website more accessible
The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AG WG) published Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 as a W3C Recommendation. WCAG and supporting documents explain how to make content more accessible to people with disabilities.
The new release of the accessibility standard offers 9 new rules to make user your website or app is useful and easy to use, especially for people with disabilities, but not only.
You can implement it in your designs to lower the user friction.
Here’s the list of criteria:
Elements focused with keyboard should be at least partially visible AA
Users that use keyboard to navigate can’t see stuff behind banners etc. making it hard to actually use the system.
Focused elements should be at least partially in the viewport.
Such elements should be fully visible AAA
Improving on the previous one, focused elements should be fully visible.
