Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi currently follows WCAG 2.0 AA standards from current federal and state regulations. This includes additional requirements in state regulations that cover a larger scope of information and communication technologies (ICT).
These will be updated to WCAG 2.1 AA technical accessibility standards, on June 24, 2024, for web content and mobile apps, per the update to Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
WCAG Standards
Other TAC 206.70 Standards
TAC 206.70 actually excludes Guideline 1.2 Time Based Media from WCAG 2.0 AA, however, it indicates requests for accommodations must be met quickly.
Additionally, it added two sections, one of which is more recently covered in WCAG 2.1. "Institutions of higher education websites and web applications should be designed to support:
- variations in internet connection speeds and emerging communications protocols and technologies; and
- the ability to adapt content to end user devices such as mobile phone, tablets, or other devices which are available to the general public."
Conformance
To be in conformance with accessibility standards, all content on all sections of the website, application, or document must be in conformance with accessibility standards. Therefore,
- If 99 pages of a website are in conformance but 1 page is not, the website is not in conformance.
- If all web pages of a website are in conformance but the documents are not, the website is not in conformance.