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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Aug 1, 2017 8:47PM

> I don't find many people talk about WCAG2ICT and wondered if it was used a lot, and who uses it.

In summation -- WCAG 2 is technology neutral and applies very well to software and native apps including native mobile. It is functional based and thus nearly all of the success criteria are still very relevant today. There are some gaps that are being addressed for touch and small screens usage and some additional success criteria have been proposed to address issues for certain disabilities that can be better addressed today. These additions will not affect WCAG 2 but will be included in separate WCAG 2.1 document that allows for backwards compatibility and includes the existing criteria from WCAG 2.0 as well.

More specifically around WCAG to non-web ICT -- for the most part the changes are in wording only (document instead of web page, software rather than web page, etc.). There are four criteria that apply to sets of documents and sets of applications rather than sets of web pages. These include bypass blocks, consistent navigation, consistent identification, and multiple ways. Other SC such as 4.1.1 parsing are already scoped to only apply to content generated with markup languages -- so if a markup language is not used then it doesn't apply.

The real question is around knowing how you met the success criteria. There are sufficient and failure techniques for a number of technologies. There are some for Flash and Silverlight because these technologies were delivered through the web browser. But really these technologies are more similar to native content and in many cases can be run out of the browser as well. So you could look at the types of techniques used for these technologies and document similar techniques for the technology platform you are developing with.

Jonathan

Jonathan Avila
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