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The BITV-Test is a reliable and comprehensive accessibility evaluation procedure. 92 detailed test steps help assessing whether information-oriented web sites are accessible for users with disabilities.

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15. August 19

News from BIK
What could "simplified monitoring" of the implementation of the Web Accessibility Directive mean?

The Web Directive 2016/2102 mandating the accessibilty of public web sites and apps in Europe has been around since December 2016. The monitoring methodology that describes how the implementation of the Directive should be checked was published in October 2018 as Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1524. So how should monitoring actually be done?   [mehr] zu: News from BIK - What could "simplified monitoring" of the implementation of the Web Accessibility Directive mean?

 

05. Februar 18

News from BIK
New WCAG-Test supports the accessibility of websites

The current BIK project ‘BIK für Alle’ (BIK for all) launched a new WCAG-based test procedure. This addition to the established BITV-Test procedure brings the test in line with the international standard for web accessibility, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). The existing BITV-Test checkpoints have also been further developed to cover recent developments in web technologies. After an evaluation phase, the new test procedure is now available, both as a free self-assessment tool and as an expert test procedure.   [mehr] zu: News from BIK - New WCAG-Test supports the accessibility of websites

 

18. Januar 17

News from DIAS
New EU-project launched: COMPARE

COMPARE stands for Comparing peer accessibility ratings in evaluation. It is an Erasmus Strategic Partnership between DIAS (Germany), Funka (Sweden) and BrailleNet (France).   [mehr] zu: News from DIAS - New EU-project launched: COMPARE

 

About the English version of the BITV-Test web site

The domain bitvtest.eu provides an overview of the BIK projects and the BITV-Test, as well as selected English articles.

The BITV-Test has its roots in the BIK projects funded by the German Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, BMAS. The last BIK project was BIK für Alle (BIK for all). The BITV-Test as well as our articles and tests have all been written in German.

The English site bitvtest.eu does not provide a full translation of all this content. Instead, it offers a general overview of the BITV-Test as a tool for evaluating the accessibility of web sites.

Since 2019, the German BITV regulation no longer uses its own annex of requirements, but points directly to the latest EU regulation, which is EN 301 549—and this in turn references WCAG 2.1 in chapter 9, Web. Since table A1 in Annex A of the En points to a number of additional requirements from other chapters of the EN that are also applicable to web content, the BITV-Test has extended its list of checkpoints, adding anothe 32 requirements. Many of these are only applicable to particular niche types of web content, such as authoring tools or web apps offering two-way voice communication.

This bitvtest.eu site also hosts occasional English articles and publications, and tracks BIK's involvement with other initiatives in the European context.