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Nikola.grancharov
Nikola.grancharov

Reputation: 692

WCAG 2.0 and Speech recognition, is it A, AA or AAA

I want to ask you, where dose speech recognition software stands in web accessibility. What i mean is, is it part of the WCAG A, or AA, or AAA. I tried to understand what W3C are explaining in here: http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/Overview.php

but i got lost around 5 times. The reason why I am asking, is because my client is asking if we are supporting A or AA level, and I have the feeling that speech recognition software is under AAA. If somebody can help me it will be great :)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 783

Answers (1)

slugolicious
slugolicious

Reputation: 17593

Speech recognition isn't really a WCAG requirement. It's usually a third party software that you can use to access applications using speech. Do a google search on Dragon Naturally Speaking as an example.

If you have a website or a web application, you can see if your site is WCAG A or AA compliant by going through the criteria for those two levels. There's nothing that specifically says it must work with speech recognition software.

However, by complying to the A and AA criteria, it significantly increases the chances that your app will work with speech recognition. Especially 4.1.2 Name, Role, Value.

Upvotes: 3

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