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Say you run an accessibility checker. You feed it a site’s URL, and the checker has to decide: which pages should it actually look at? Is the homepage enough? If so, you don’t have much basis for saying “this site is accessible” or “this site isn’t.” But checking every page isn’t realistic either — forums, blogs, and shopping sites can have hundreds or thousands of posts. Auditing all of them blows the time and cost budget. ...

W3C has published WCAG-EM 2.0, its accessibility evaluation methodology, twelve years after 1.0. What changed — from websites to apps, e-books and kiosks — the five-step procedure, sampling and random checks, and how it maps to Korea's certification.