RE: Mobile native app independent a11y standards

Patrick,

An excellent call out and my error. I should have re-read the email to make sure I had the right context worded. Hence I retract the sentence you pointed out below. Teaches myself sending emails out in the early morning. What I should have said instead:

Apple and google references there design / native SDKs documentation for making native apps accessible.

I did send another email to obtain more information on silver (GA). This email doesn't appear to have been sent. Is there any public info on this new standard?


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From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk> 
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Subject: Re: Mobile native app independent a11y standards

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On 20/05/2020 16:07, Murphy, Sean wrote:
> Apple state
> use our native SDKs, design documentation  and the WCAG is for web.
> Android Google has similar comments.

Where?

Noting that if you're doing an ACR/VPAT, you generally reference WCAG 2.x as well. So regardless of what Apple or Google may say/comment, WCAG is indeed referenced officially by Section 508 and EN 301 549.

And yes, by design, WCAG is for web technologies (it's in the name).
With a few exceptions though, the principles and requirements underlying SCs are tech agnostic.

Also yes, the idea behind Silver is that it will be even more agnostic/applicable to all sorts of things beyond pure web technologies (for better or worse).

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