{"id":611,"date":"2020-12-23T19:26:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T18:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/?p=611"},"modified":"2020-12-23T19:26:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T18:26:43","slug":"merry-christmas-and-an-accessible-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/2020\/12\/merry-christmas-and-an-accessible-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas and an accessible new year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I can not get the &#8220;All I want for Christmas&#8221; song out of my head, so I remembered that it would be appropriate to mention that accessibility is also on a list of my wishes. They are actually ever-green but when everybody is talking about wishes on Christmas, then we must also mention accessibility as one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next year should be more accessible and <a href=\"https:\/\/webaim.org\/projects\/million\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">when Web AIM group will do their analysis (opens in new window)<\/a> at least the simple tings &#8211; like contrasts &#8211; should disappear from the list of errors. The same goes for missing alternative texts for images that have meaning and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next year will be big for accessibility in Norway as well &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uutilsynet.no\/english\/regulations\/278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">we will be getting Web Accessibility directive implemented into our laws after some delays (opens in new window)<\/a>. We will get accessibility statement generator from the authorities and they will also <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uutilsynet.no\/tilsyn\/avvik-etter-tilsyn-med-nettstaden-til-nav\/259\" target=\"_blank\">force Norwegian social services and Norwegian tax office to fix accessibility errors on their pages (in Norwegian, opens in new window)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it will for sure be a more accessible new year and besides wishing I will also work towards it within my roles internally and externally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Night before Christmas &#8211; and besides all the usual wishes &#8211; I also wish a more accessible web!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,2,4],"tags":[119],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-of-a11y","category-general","category-laws-and-regulations","tag-webaim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerovac.com\/a11y\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}