Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service and the Web Accessibility Guidelines aem-and-the-web-accessibility-guidelines
There are many social, economical, and legal motivations for ensuring that web content is designed to be as accessible as possible to the target audience, regardless of any disability or limitations they may have. Web accessibility with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) as a Cloud Service is therefore an increasingly important aspect of good web design.
Creating accessible websites and content with AEM as a Cloud Service impacts:
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Administrators responsible for configuring AEM to ensure accessibility features are correctly enabled.
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Authors using these features to create accessible websites.
Creating accessible content is a process. AEM provides the capabilities, but content authors need to ensure that they follow the techniques required to create accessible content.
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Template developers should also be aware of such issues when implementing the website design.
Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service works with the guidelines provided by the World Wide Web Consortium.
World Wide Web Consortium world-wide-web-consortium
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community dedicated to developing web standards. Their Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) publishes the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 wcag-accessibility-guidelines
To help web designers and developers produce accessible websites the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) published the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 in June 2018.
WCAG 2.1 provides guidelines (with related success criteria) covering the accessibility levels and how to conform to them.
WCAG 2.1 and AEM as a Cloud Service wcag-aem-cloud-service
Using Adobe Experience Manager, content authors and/or website owners can create web content that meets the WCAG 2.1 Level A and Level AA success criteria:
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Specific aspects of WCAG 2.1 are highlighted in our quick guide to WCAG 2.1.
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Creating Accessible Content details how they relate to AEM.
Accessibility at Adobe accessibility-at-adobe
For additional information, see the Adobe Accessibility Resource Center.