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From: Jon Brundage
Date: Mon, Feb 04 2019 7:17AM
Subject: AAA level
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Hello-
Looking for information on the percentage of organizations are implementing "AAA" level accessibility. How many of your clients/companies are trying for AAA level?
Thanks
Jon
From: Steve Green
Date: Mon, Feb 04 2019 7:27AM
Subject: Re: AAA level
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In my experience the number is unmeasurably small, so you can safely say it's 0%. We're actually working on one right now, but it's about 5 years since the last one and we've only done 3 or 4 in 17 years. That's a tiny fraction of 1% of all the projects we have worked on and quoted for.
Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd
From: Jared Smith
Date: Mon, Feb 04 2019 7:35AM
Subject: Re: AAA level
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Among the many hundreds of WebAIM clients over the last decade or so,
I don't recall a single one that became fully AAA conformant. While we
recommend and have helped many incorporate important and relevant
aspects of AAA, most of these have sites simply could not be made AAA
conformant due to their nature, or would be worse off for it. I
suspect that some very basic sites could be made conformant with
notable effort, but we don't consult on these types of sites. I know
that in the approval processes for both 2.0 and 2.1 the W3C working
group had difficulty finding examples of AAA conformant sites in the
wild.
As stated directly in WCAG: "It is not recommended that Level AAA
conformance be required as a general policy for entire sites because
it is not possible to satisfy all Level AAA Success Criteria for some
content."
Jared
From: Jon Brundage
Date: Mon, Feb 04 2019 12:09PM
Subject: Re: AAA level
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Thanks Jared and Steve. That is good information.
Jon
From: Guy Hickling
Date: Tue, Feb 05 2019 6:08PM
Subject: Re: AAA level
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After 60 or so audits for AA Level I did my very first AAA one just this
December - though it was actually a design review not an audit. They also
included WCAG 2.1, so they clearly plan to go all the way. However, they
are a travel agency for disabled people's travel, so they have a special
interest in doing so!
Regards,
Guy Hickling
Accessibility Consultant
From: John Foliot
Date: Tue, Feb 05 2019 6:29PM
Subject: Re: AAA level
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I'll just add by saying first, +1 to Steve and Jared, while also noting
that WCAG (W3C) Conformance claims are done so at the page level, and so
some pages of a larger site could claim AAA, but not at the site level.
I always encourage a basic familiarity of those SC, along with some
thoughtful discussion at the planning stage, looking to include some or all
of the AAAs as and when appropriate. For example, SC 1.4.9 Images of Text
(No Exceptions) today is trivial to conform to with some basic internal
planning and authoring guidelines. Make it a policy requirement and move
on.
https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#images-of-text-no-exception
FWIW
JF
(Sent from my mobile, apologies for any spelling mistakes)
On Tue, Feb 5, 2019, 8:08 PM Guy Hickling < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = wrote:
> After 60 or so audits for AA Level I did my very first AAA one just this
> December - though it was actually a design review not an audit. They also
> included WCAG 2.1, so they clearly plan to go all the way. However, they
> are a travel agency for disabled people's travel, so they have a special
> interest in doing so!
>
> Regards,
> Guy Hickling
> Accessibility Consultant
> > > > >