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
