Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2
These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities, are an international standard and ensure your website or mobile app will meet public sector accessibility legal requirements.
About this standard
- Publisher
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- Also known as
- WCAG
- Reference code
- WCAG 2.2
- Publication date
- 05/10/2023
- Publication version
- 2.2.0
- Status
- Active
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Active. Active standards are stable, maintained and have been approved, assured or endorsed for use by qualified bodies.
Deprecated Deprecated standards are available for use and are maintained, but are being phased out, so new functionality will not be added.
Retired standards Retired standards are not being maintained or supported and should not be used.
- Standard type
- Technical standards and specifications
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Collections. A Collection is a systematic gathering of a specified selection of data or information for a particular stated purpose from existing records held within health and care systems and electronic devices.
Extractions. An extraction is a type of collection that is pulled from an operational system by the data controller and transmitted to the receiver without additional processing or transcription by the sender.
Information standards. Information standards are agreed ways of doing something, written down as a set of precise criteria so they can be used as rules, guidelines, or definitions.
Technical Standards and specifications. Technical standards and specifications specify how to make information available technically including how the data is structured and transported.
- Contact point
https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues
Issues can be raised via Github
Link to standard
- Documentation
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- Applies to
- Public sector systems and services
- Impacts on
- All public sector bodies, providers and their IT suppliers
- Associated medias
- NHS Accessibility Checklist The accessibility checklist helps those involved in creating websites and mobile apps more accessible.
- Understanding accessibility requirements for public sector bodies Help your team understand why they need to meet the website and mobile app accessibility regulations from a government digital service perspective.
- NHS Design System - New accessibility requirements: WCAG 2.2 This page will assist to understand the new criteria you must comply with, review the list of NHS design system changes, assess your service to see what updates you need to make and plan and implement your updates.
- Understanding WCAG 2.2 This is an overview of WCAG 2.2 level AA. It does not replace the WCAG 2.2 guidelines, which provide a full explanation of all principles and requirements.
- NHS Accessibility Checklist
- Conformance date
- 01/10/2024
Topics and care settings
- Topic
- Accessibility
Review Information
- Registration status
standard
- Registration authority
W3C
Legal basis and endorsements
- Legal authority
Other legal basis
The full name of the accessibility regulations is The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) Accessibility (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022. The accessibility regulations build on your existing obligations to people who have a disability under the Equality Act 2010 (or the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 in Northern Ireland).
More information
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Following these guidelines will make content more accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including accommodations for blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity, and combinations of these, and some accommodation for learning disabilities and cognitive limitations; but will not address every user need for people with these disabilities. These guidelines address accessibility of web content on desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile devices. Following these guidelines will also often make Web content more usable to users in general.
Page last updated: 02 October 2024