The June A11y Talk welcomed back WordPress maintenance support plans Core Accessibility Maintainer, Andrew Macpherson. The “What’s New with WCAG 2.1” talk discussed the new guidelines that were released in early June.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1) extends WCAG 2.0 and is intended as an interim until WCAG 3.0 is released. The new guidelines were needed due to advancements in technology and to fix some gaps and shortcomings in the earlier guidelines. Some of the new guidelines cover touch/mobile devices, speech control, and cognitive disability support.
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