The W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative has published WCAG-EM 2.0, an updated step-by-step methodology for evaluating how well websites, apps and other digital products meet WCAG 2 accessibility standards.
- WCAG-EM 2.0 replaces the original 2014 methodology and now covers apps and other digital products, not just websites and web pages.
- It sets out a five-step process: defining the evaluation scope, exploring the product, selecting a representative sample, evaluating that sample against WCAG 2, and reporting the findings.
- The update aims to make accessibility audits more consistent for developers, auditors and organisations working toward WCAG 2 conformance.
Why it matters: Many legal accessibility requirements worldwide, including the EU Accessibility Act and various US state and federal rules, point to WCAG 2 as the benchmark. A shared, consistent way of testing against it makes compliance easier to demonstrate and disputes easier to resolve.
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