{"id":96,"date":"2025-12-03T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/informationarchitecture\/?p=96"},"modified":"2026-06-24T21:32:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:32:40","slug":"accessibility-at-the-edge-releases-capabilities-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/informationarchitecture\/2025\/12\/03\/accessibility-at-the-edge-releases-capabilities-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessibility at the Edge Releases Capabilities Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On November 9, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/a11yedge\/\">W3C Accessibility at the Edge Community Group<\/a>&nbsp;announced publication of its Final Report addressing the trade-offs and benefits of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/2023\/09\/breakouts\/recording-51.html\">applying dynamic accessibility remediations to web content<\/a>. The Information Architecture CG members Shari Thurow, Chris Novell, Bev Corwin and Kate Wilhelm contributed perspectives from the IA realm, which has often stressed that IA and accessibility go hand in hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An excerpt from the Accessibility at the Edge CG announcement is below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cToday\u2019s typical web page is a complex blend of multiple original sources, yielding experiences that work well for some users but fail for others, leaving many websites and online applications inaccessible to people with disabilities. In development since&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/a11yedge\/2022\/10\/07\/tpac-2022-overlays-breakout-report\/\">Fall 2022<\/a>, the report titled:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/reports\/a11yedge\/CG-FINAL-a11yedge-capabilities-20251104\/\">Accessibility Capabilities: Post-Source Code and Content<\/a>&nbsp;features cross-references to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/w3.org\/tr\/wcag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WCAG<\/a>&nbsp;throughout, because WCAG remains the valid yardstick whether applied in-source or post-source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cComments are welcome in the github,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/a11yedge\/capabilities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a11yedge\/capabilities<\/a>&nbsp;or by sending an email to the list,&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:public-a11yedge@w3.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">public-a11yedge@w3.org<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are announcing a revised date for the IACG annual meeting shortly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Noreen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 9, the&nbsp;W3C Accessibility at the Edge Community Group&nbsp;announced publication of its Final Report addressing the trade-offs and benefits of&nbsp;applying dynamic accessibility remediations to web content. The Information Architecture CG members Shari Thurow, Chris Novell, Bev Corwin and Kate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/informationarchitecture\/2025\/12\/03\/accessibility-at-the-edge-releases-capabilities-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[16,17,18],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-a11y","tag-accessibility","tag-accessibility-at-the-edge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/informationarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/informationarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/informationarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/informationarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/informationarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/informationarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/informationarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/informationarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/informationarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/informationarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}