Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 and
Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 Together

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This page is part of a suite of related documents. Please refer to the “How to Use These Documents” section for more information.

Introduction

As described in this document, the two recommendations are complementary. the motivation for adopting them may be different (for example, commercial, regulatory, altruistic). It has been described elsewhere that retrofitting existing websites for compliance with another set of non-functional requirements is much more costly than complying during the design and development phases. the cost of late implementation (content repair, staff training, redesigning workflow) separately may also be much greater than doing both together, due to the synergies between them.

When a WCAG SC is more comprehensive or demanding than a BP and overlaps it completely, only include the SC in the list, and vice versa.

When starting a new Web project...

Meet this subset of WCAG success criteria

• 1.1.1 Non-text Content (because it overlaps a MWBP completely).
• 2.2.2 Pausing (as it is not covered by any MWBP)

and...

Meet this subset of the MWBPs

• CACHING (as it is not covered by any WCAG SC).

Not included above (and remove from this section of document once it is complete):

This is what projects doing both do not need to worry about if they do the preceding two sets.

• NON-TEXT_ALTERNATIVES, as it is covered by success criterion 1.1.1 Non-text Content included above.