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From: Katie Haritos-Shea
Date: Jan 29, 2019 10:55AM

It would depend on what regulations and laws apply in your jurisdiction and
sector. In the US for government and educational institutions, Section 508
standards (among other reqs) identify that WCAG is to be used for web,
software and documents with a few SC exceptions in navigation for software
and documents

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On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:02 PM Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> On 29/01/2019 16:50, Barry Hill wrote:
> > As this app is only to be used on IOS devices, could it be that some of
> the
> > WCAG 2.1 guidelines go too far, even for level A? Yes, the new ones
> under
> > 2.1 for mobile will be relevant, but wouldn't the IOS mobile guidelines
> be
> > more useful?
>
> My take: WCAG provides reasonably tech agnostic guidelines and success
> criteria. Some of them slant a bit towards traditional web content, but
> their high level principle is just as valid for native apps. You can
> evaluate a native app against WCAG, but in some cases this will need a
> bit more of an interpretation (as some web content concepts may not be
> immediately translatable to native - e.g. "Page titled", "Bypass
> blocks", "Link purpose (in Context)"). Some are arguably not relevant in
> the context of an app (I'd argue "Multiple Ways" would be one of those,
> and most native apps would fail this unless they offered essentially two
> distinct navigation mechanisms). "Language of Page" / "Language of
> Parts" gets tricky to test/check. etc.
>
> So, I'd still evaluate against WCAG 2.1, but be prepared to mark some as
> not applicable.
>
> And don't see it as an either/or. Also evaluate against iOS mobile
> guidelines etc.
>
> P
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