A primer to help people get up to speed quickly with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

Contains:

• an overview of WCAG.
• information for each success crteria - including an understandable explanation, details of what is required, example of common issues and links to further content
• the most relevant success criteria for content, design and code
• some questions to help you evaluate if a digital product meets WCAG

https://alphagov.github.io/wcag-primer/

This WCAG Primer is for everyone. You can help make sure it stays up to date by:

1. Making changes to the WCAG primer on Github.

To contribute to this repository, you first need to fork it* You can raise PRs from your forked copy.

2. Emailing the Accessibility Capability team at [email protected] with suggestions

This repo uses Middleman. To test changes locally, run:

bundle exec middleman server

The text lives in the source/documentation folder, and is in markdown format.

This project is continuously deployed - merging a pull request into main will cause the site to be built and any changes added to the gh-pages branch.