Director of Accessibility Automation
Wilco Fiers
Wilco has been in the field of accessibility for 18 years, and is the product manager of Deque’s advanced rules, and previously of Axe-core and Axe linter. He has a leading role at the W3C as Deque’s advisory committee representative, facilitator of the ACT Task Force, and former project manager of WCAG 3.0. On behalf of Deque, Wilco managed the EU-funded accessibility projects WAI-Tools & WAI-Coop, and regularly does public speaking on various topics related to digital accessibility.
Posts from Wilco
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Find Label in Name issues in every scan with Axe-core 4.14.0
With our latest update, when you scan with Axe-core 4.14.0, you’ll now get a result for any control whose accessible name doesn't contain its visible label. This Axe-core release also speeds up scans, makes fix instructions clearer, and begins support for EN 301 549 v4.1.1, the pending update to the European Union’s (EU) harmonized standard for accessibility requirements.
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Test your custom elements and trust the results with Axe-core’s support for ElementInternals
If you're a large enterprise organization with accessibility issues resulting from interoperability challenges, moving to ElementInternals is a savvy move. You can standardize, and safely test. And, with Axe-core now supporting ElementInternals, you can test those components and trust the results.
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Why partnering EN 17161 with WCAG is a major step forward for digital accessibility
WCAG is the horizon. It is the direction you're traveling in, and even if you can’t actually “reach” the horizon, it’s what you’re driving toward. EN 17161 is the road you drive on, and it has all the markings, guides, and signs that keep you on track and prevent you from swerving into other traffic or a ditch.
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The next big leap in digital accessibility: Why the digital accessibility community should embrace EN 17161
Learn how integrating EN 17161 empowers your organization to set up a robust accessibility program for measuring real-world accessibility alongside WCAG.
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W3C unveils 174 new outcomes for WCAG 3.0
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet…
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301,549 ways to improve accessibility: EN 301 549
For almost 25 years now, digital accessibility has been synonymous with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). This standard, developed by the World Wide Web…
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