Publications: Web Accessibility

IDevice Icon New Accessibility Guidelines Will Be More "Testable"

Image Top left a dark blue rectangle with with text Web Accessibility, underlined in orange, under which is the word, again in white, initiative. To the right of this is an image of water flowing under an 3-arched bridge. Under this on an orange band is white text WAI: Strategies, guidelines, resources to make the Web accessible to people with sisabilities

The long-awaited second version of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), the global benchmarks of web accessibility, will include far more detailed practical help for designers, a conference for public sector web teams heard in July.

WCAG 1.0, the most recent set of guidelines from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), was released in 1999. WCAG 1.0 suggests websites achieve one of three levels of accessibility from a minimum of level A, to levels AA and AAA, by meeting several of its 14 "checkpoints."

Details of all documents relating to the WCAG 2.0 working draft are found at: http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag20 .
The guidelines will be finally released by early 2008. 


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