Category: Features
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Release Notes for December 2023
We would like to take this opportunity to start our email by wishing you a happy holiday season. During the last two months we have introduced various features and improvements. This release note intends to highlight some of them. Features for manual testing & auditing Components Component detection and ability to create components for manual…
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WCAG 2.2 support is live
This week we introduced the support for WCAG 2.2 to both automatic and manual testing capabilities of Accessibility Cloud. Automatic tests for WCAG 2.2 Feel free to choose WCAG 2.2 as a compliance target to your site, instead of, or in addition to your existing compliance targets. You can select as many as you like…
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Accessibility Cloud’s AI now generates solution suggestions
Accessibility Cloud’s AI program ACAI now generates solution suggestions based on the actual code which causes the accessibility problem. In the screen recording, you can observe an example of ACAI finding the problematic element: an input field with no accessible name. ACAI recognizes that this is a search field and suggests adding a label for…
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Section 508 and ADA testing is now available in Accessibility Cloud
Accessibility Cloud now supports both automatically and manual testing for Section 508 and ADA. Section 508 and ADA for manual tests Choose Section 508 or ADA as compliance target while doing a manual test / audit to get started. Since both Section 508 and ADA are based on WCAG, you will find familiar success criteria…
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Revolutionizing Web Accessibility Testing
How Accessibility Cloud Empowers Organizations Introduction In today’s digital age, the importance of web accessibility cannot be overstated. As businesses expand their online presence, ensuring that their digital assets are accessible to all users, including those with disabilities, is a moral and legal obligation. Accessibility Cloud, is transforming the landscape of web accessibility, offering organizations…
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Automatically-assisted manual WCAG-EM tests / audits
As of last week, Accessibility Cloud supports automatically filling up all the success criteria that can be tested in your manual tests. Take a look at the screen recording below. Please note that the automatic tests are run for the pages you have in your test scope and by using the scanning engine set on…
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Automatically generated, real, proper accessibility statements!
You can now generate your accessibility statements with Accessibility Cloud. What is an accessibility statement? Accessibility statement is a compliance document, stating your website’s level of accessibility. It is being used globally and it is a legal requirement within European Union 🇪🇺 for the public sector. Why is this feature important and unique to Accessibility…
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QualWeb – Why scan your site’s accessibility with just one engine?
As of last week, Accessibility Cloud supports scanning with QualWeb as well. QualWeb is a highly capable accessibility defect scanning engine that supports a wide range of WCAG success criteria and ACT rules. QualWeb is being used in a number of European countries’ monitoring agencies to do what’s known as “simplified audits” and therefore a…
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Supercharged WCAG-EM tests, audits, evaluations
WCAG-EM compatible manual tests have landed! With this new feature, we are taking the WCAG-EM standard to a whole different level. This feature is included on all our plans for all our customers. To get started, you can go to your site’s menu and click compliance status and then “New test” to get started. Supercharged…