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We know the interpretations of all WCAG 2.1 rules from the ground up! We are prepared to implement digital accessibility standards as well as prepare technical support along with comfortable update strategies!
WCAG standards provide a number of improvements in access to information, but the proposed improvements require interference in the structure of the page, both visually and at the code level. It is best to entrust the implementation of digital accessibility to professionals, familiar with both the nuances of user-friendliness of pages and their construction.
WCAG levels are another way of predicting what users might need the information you provide on your website. Tell us about your business profile and we will advise you on the best strategy – in line with Polish regulations, which have included digital accessibility rules since 2019.
Take advantage of our experience both in the matter of regulations governing WCAG rules for websites belonging to Polish entities, as well as in the field of website construction and composition. You can trust us in matters of accessibility of PDF documents, proper character encoding, formulation of substitute texts for illustrations and many others!
The compliance of the website with WCAG standards is confirmed by special, reported audits. Report documents are prepared for both analysis and presentation purposes. They contain descriptions and justifications of the audit methodology, descriptions and summaries of results, as well as conclusions and recommendations to improve the further development of your website.
The idea of digital accessibility is a key aspect of the Internet's architecture. Thanks to it, everyone, regardless of the limitations they face, can enjoy the benefits of online life. Your contribution to this vision is confirmed by an accessibility declaration, a document describing the compliance of your website's composition with the WCAG 2.1 standard.
The enormous potential of the Internet's resources makes life easier and allows for the optimal stimulation of the development of every person. However, cyberspace requires some ordering so that the knowledge gathered can also be used by the elderly, people struggling with developmental and cognitive deficits, and people affected by some type of disability. Support for users who require facilities are precisely the WCAG rules, thanks to which websites friendly to people with disabilities are created.
We know these principles inside out and are able to propose the best solutions that will allow search engines to index your website as digitally accessible!
Statutory requirement for digital accessibility
According to Polish regulations, the implementation of WCAG standards is an obligation for some entities, primarily for administration offices and local government institutions. The Ministry of Digital Affairs supervises the degree of implementation of WCAG recommendations. If an inspection on behalf of this ministry reveals failure to fulfill the statutory obligation, the range of expected penalties extends from PLN 5,000 to PLN 10,000.
Another consequence foreseen for failure to comply with the assumptions of digital accessibility is the withdrawal of the subsidy of a given entity from European Union funds. It is also necessary to know that the Digital Accessibility Act allows any user to ask a given public institution to ensure the digital accessibility of a specific element of its website, and the institution is then obliged to fulfill the request within 7 days of receiving it.
The digital accessibility recommendations are based on four principles, referred to by the guidelines as the so-called pillars. They were created to help anticipate the limitations that users of a given website may face. The individual pillars are presented as follows:
Digital accessibility principles according to WCAG 2.1 provide practical solutions that will make a website more friendly to people with disabilities. These include the ability to enlarge the page view, changing browser settings or compatibility with assistive technologies for people with visual impairments. It is also worth taking care of recordings in sign language, audio descriptions and extended captions.
It is also important to properly adjust the contrast: at least 4.5:1 for body text and 3.0:1 for large text. The main problems with implementing the standards result from the outdated structure of the pages and the lack of technical competence in accessibility.
The complexity of some aspects of digital accessibility combined with the evolution of WCAG guidelines (the first edition of the recommendation, WCAG 1.0, appeared in 1999) leads to the conclusion that it is best to entrust independent improvement of a website, or its adaptation to at least a basic level of accessibility, to professionals. The website of a primary school or a municipal office will look different when it is handled by a random person than when the matter is entrusted to an agency familiar with both improvement techniques and the legal side of the WCAG guidelines. In addition to typical IT services, the appropriate interpretation of the provisions of the Digital Accessibility Act is also important here, as well as the possibility of conducting an audit of the user-friendliness of the website and obtaining an accessibility declaration, i.e. a document confirming the adaptation of the website to the WCAG guidelines.
The acronym stands for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and is a codename for a set of recommendations leading to the accessibility of web content viewed from different perspectives. Thanks to WCAG, developers build websites so that they can be used by people with hearing, vision and movement disabilities, as well as users with cognitive disabilities or intellectual disabilities.
The WCAG recommendations are an international collection. They were collected and organized by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) in order to create standards for designing websites and web applications that ultimately enable optimal accessibility of information for all users, especially the disabled. The first version of the WCAG document was first published in 1999. Nine years later, the WCAG 2.0 update appeared. The 2018 collection - WCAG 2.1 - is currently in force.
The digital accessibility standard is based on four main principles called pillars. These are: perceptibility, functionality, comprehensibility and robustness, referred to in Polish law as compatibility. In addition, depending on the scope of a given entity's activity and the level of organization, the rules of website friendliness provide for three levels of compliance.
The evolution of technology is closely linked to the progress of computer science, which means that some solutions are best entrusted to specialists familiar with both the legal aspect of WCAG, or the Digital Accessibility Act, and the latest strategies for implementing these guidelines. This is especially important in the case of outdated sites, sites with errors in the code, and those built on non-standard models that stop working over time.
