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A Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) is a template containing information regarding how an Information and communications technology product or service conforms with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (29 U.S.C. § 794 (d)).
A full public list of EU monitoring reports [27] produced because of the Web Accessibility Directive is available per country. This included the UK: Accessibility report of public sector websites and mobile apps due to the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. All member states aside from France and Cyprus ...
The first web accessibility guideline was compiled by Gregg Vanderheiden and released in January 1995, just after the 1994 Second International Conference on the World-Wide Web (WWW II) in Chicago (where Tim Berners-Lee first mentioned disability access in a keynote speech after seeing a pre-conference workshop on accessibility led by Mike Paciello).
How to Meet WCAG 2.0, A customizable quick reference to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 requirements (success criteria) and techniques; WebAIM's WCAG 2.0 Checklist; Involving Users in Evaluating Web Accessibility, pay attention to the high numbers of cautions: one should be very cautious when evaluating accessibility. It's a delicate job.
A draft is ready to be implemented in Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (accessibility) once it's marked as "reviewed by an accessibility expert and ready for implementation". Criteria on this page are prioritized according to impact (W3C's accessibility level of priorities: A, AA or AAA) and degree of feasibility (with MediaWiki's syntax and the ...
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The approach to make Wikipedia accessible is based on the W3C's official WCAG 2.0 (a.k.a. ISO/IEC 40500:2012) and ATAG 2.0 guidelines. The guidelines provided by this accessibility project are merely an attempt to reword the WCAG 2.0 into a guideline hopefully easier to understand for editors who are not familiar with accessibility or web development.
On the WikiMedia Foundation level however, there is a strong need for an accessibility policy. MediaWiki itself should be accessible. But is should also conform to the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) in order to enable users to create accessible content. The WMF should make it a priority and set up a plan to meet those goals.