WCAG 2.1 guidelines are an internationally recognized set of recommendations for ways to provide complete web accessibility. The A-2-Z Internet Accessibility and Marketing team is knowledgeable in the ways that devices need to be improved so that they comply with the established guidelines.

In the United Kingdom, statistics show that one in five persons is dealing with a disability. That means someone you know is probably unable to access the Internet:

• People with vision impairment who are colour-blind, partially-sighted, or severely-sight-impaired;
• People who are either hard of hearing or dealing with deafness;
• People with mobility limitations who cannot easily manipulate a mouse or keyboard;
• People who have cognitive issues such as autism, dyslexia, or learning difficulties.

The following Success Criteria are new in WCAG 2.1.

• 3.4 Orientation
  Unless specific display orientation is required, content view and operation are not restricted to portrait or landscape orientation.
• 3.5 Identify Input Purpose
  Each input field’s user-information collection can be programmatically determined when a) the input field’s purpose is identified in the Input Practices for User Interface Components; b) Content implementation uses technologies with support to identify the form input data’s expected meaning.
• 3.6 Identify Purpose
  The purpose of user interface components, icons, and regions can be programmatically determined in content that’s implemented with the use of markup languages.
• 4.10 Reflow
  Content can be presented without losing functionality or information, or requiring scrolling in two dimensions for a) vertical scrolling at a width equivalent to 320 CSS pixels; b) horizontal scrolling content at a height equivalent to 256 CSS pixels.
• 4.11 Non-Text Contrast
  Visual presentations of user interface components and graphical objects have a contrast ratio of at least 3 to 1 against nearby colors.
• 4.12 Text Spacing
  For content that’s implemented with the use of markup languages supporting line height, spacing after paragraphs, letter and word spacing, there’s no loss of content or functionality.
• 4.13 Content on Hover or Focus
  There is a mechanism to dismiss additional content without moving the pointer hover or keyboard focus, except when the added content indicates an input error or doesn’t replace of hide other content.
• 1.4 Character Key Shortcuts
  When a keyboard shortcut is implemented in content using only upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, symbol characters or punctuation, the mechanism can be turned off, remapped, or left active only when it has focus.
• 2.6 Timeouts
  Users are informed of user inactivity that can cause a loss of data unless that data is preserved for more than 20 hours when the user has not taken any action.
• 3.3 Animation from Interactions
  Unless animation is essential to the functionality or the information being conveyed, it can be disabled.
• 5.1 Pointer Gestures
  Functionality using multipoint or path-based gestures can operate with a single pointer, without a path-based gesture, unless the multipoint or path-based gesture is essential.
• 5.2 Pointer Cancellation
  With functionality that can be operated with the use of a single pointer, at least one of the following items is true:
  a) the pointer down-event is not used for the execution of any part of the function;
  b)  the function completion is on the up-event, with a mechanism to abort available;
  c)  the up-event reverses any outcome from the preceding down-event;
  d)  completing the function on the down-even is essential.
• 5.3 Label in Name
  With user-interface components with labels including text or images of text, the name contains the visually presented text.
• 5.4 Motion Actuation
  Functionality that is operable by device or user motion can also be operated by user interface components; motion response can be disabled to prevent accidental actuation except when the motion operates functionality through an accessibility-supported interface, or the motion is essential for the function.
• 5.5 Target Size
  Pointer input target size is at a minimum of 44 by 44 except when
  a) the target is available through an equivalent link or control on the same page and matches the measurements;

1. the target is in a sentence or block of text;
2. the user agent determines the size of the target;
3. a particular target presentation is essential to the information that is being conveyed.

• 5.6 Concurrent Input Mechanisms
  Web content doesn’t restrict the usage of input modalities that are available on a
• platform except when the restriction is essential, required to respect the user settings, or to ensure the content security.
• 1.3 Status Messages
  Status messages in content that’s implemented with the use of markup languages can be programmatically determined through role or properties that are presented to the user through assistive technologies without receiving focus.