Our colleague Joshua A. Stein at Epstein Becker Green has a post on the Hospitality Labor and Employment Law blog that will be of interest to our readers in the financial services industry: " The Generally Prevailing Website Accessibility Guidelines Have Been Refreshed – It's Time to Officially Welcome WCAG 2.1."
Following is an excerpt:
After nearly ten years, on Tuesday, June 5, 2018, the World Wide Web Consortium (the "W3C"), the private organization focused on enhancing online user experiences, published the long awaited update to its Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 ("WCAG 2.0"), known as the WCAG 2.1. Those who have been following along with website accessibility's ever-evolving legal landscape are well aware that, despite not having been formally adopted by regulators for the vast majority of the private sector, compliance with WCAG 2.0 at Levels A and AA has become the de facto baseline for government regulators, courts, advocacy groups, and private plaintiffs when discussing what it means to have an accessible website. ...
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