What is Accessibility, WAI, and WCAG

Web accessibility is the practice of making your website usable by as many people as possible, across many types of devices, no matter their abilities or circumstances.

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This pilot project aims to:

• Work with Saolta hospitals to help action their waiting lists.
• Give long-waiting patients on the Outpatient Waiting List an option to avail of treatment quicker.
• Give patients the opportunity to discuss their Outpatient offer in more detail.
• Discuss the possibility of a transport option for this cohort of patients.

W3.org - The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops standards and support materials to help understand and implement accessibility.

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 is a single shared standard for web content accessibility. The WCAG documents explain how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities.

The four principals of WCAG are to be Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust.

WebAIM.org also have a simplified and condensed checklist of the WCAG standards.

Watch Brian Dalton (15mins), a QA tester at Aer Lingus, showcasing his experience as a user operating with screen reader technology on the web.

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