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EN 301 549 vs WCAG
Accessibility standards veteran and axe-core product owner Wilco Fiers explains how he sees EN 301 549 relate to WCAG:
EN 301 549 steadily gained importance. It is often dismissed as “WCAG with a different number slapped on it,” but it is far more than that.
(From: 301,549 ways to improve accessibility: EN 301 549 | Deque)
In the post, he explains the EN is broader than WCAG in various ways:
- it has more requirements, like for browser settings to be respected by websites (11.7 User preferences)
- it applies to more than web content (apps, kiosks), a scope WCAG explicitly doesn't support
- it and derivatives of it apply in more and more places, way beyond the EU (Canada, Japan, Australia)
On the authoring tool requirements bit that Wilco mentioned, I wrote a blog post to summarise our group's thoughts: On authoring tools in EN 301 549.