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Dec 18, 2022 4 min

WCAG 2.2 vs. 2.1 AA: What's the Difference?

from The ADA Book Hosted by Kris Rivenburgh

Kris Rivenburgh explains the difference between WCAG 2.2 vs. 2.1 and 2.0 and then provides a quick overview of the seven new success criteria found in WCAG 2.2 AA. WCAG 2.2 AA contains 57 success criteria. WCAG 2.1 AA contains 50 success criteria. WCAG 2.0 AA contains 38 success criteria. Each subsequent version is backwards compatible which means no previous versions have been undone, only added to. The new AA success criteria are: 2.4.11 Focus Appearance (AA) 2.4.12 Focus Not Obscured (Minimum) (AA) 2.5.7 Dragging Movements (AA) 2.5.8 Target Size (Minimum) (AA) 3.2.6 Consistent Help (A) 3.3.7 Accessible Authentication (AA) 3.3.9 Redundant Entry (A) Read the full W3C document: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/ Watch Kris explain WCAG 2.1 vs. 2.0 in more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExUopePo8N4 Read Kris's landmark article on ADA website compliance: https://krisrivenburgh.medium.com/the-ada-checklist-website-compliance-guidelines-for-2019-in-plain-english-123c1d58fad9 Kris designed the ADA Compliance Course (ACC) as instructions you can give your team to fix the most commonly claimed issues in ADA website lawsuits. The ACC is really an SOP for your web team. Your team can get started in minutes at https://ADACompliance.net/. Watch Kris on YouTube @adabook: https://youtube.com/@adabook Connect with Kris directly on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/adabook https://www.linkedin.com/in/krisrivenburgh The ADA Compliance Course is available at https://ADACompliance.net. Kris offers accessibility services including WCAG 2.1 AA manual audits and remediation at https://accessible.org. Kris also wrote the book on ADA compliance for digital assets. You can find out more about The ADA Book at https://ADABook.com. Transcript: https://adabook.com/wcag-2-2-vs-2-1-aa-difference/

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