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Accessibility deadlines moved this year, but the standard stayed put. In April the Department of Justice pushed its ADA Title II web accessibility deadlines to April 2027 for larger public entities and April 2028 for smaller ones. WCAG 2.1 Level AA remains the benchmark, and private publishers are taking note.
The audience behind those rules is large. The World Health Organization estimates that at least 2.2 billion people worldwide have a near or distance vision impairment. Add readers with learning differences like dyslexia, or plain reading fatigue, and listening is the easier way in for a big share of any audience.
Narration gives those readers an alternative to text without adding a recording step to the newsroom. With AudioLayer, an editor generates narration from the WordPress post editor, and listeners adjust voice and speed to suit how they take in information.
Accessible narration is a product quality decision. It makes the same content usable by more people, more of the time.
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