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Accessibility Guidelines - W3C - Archive

World Wide Web Consortium - Web Accessibility Initiative

World Wide Web Consortium - Web Accessibility Initiative - The W3C's commitment to lead the Web to its full potential includes promoting a high degree of usability for people with disabilities. The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), in co-ordination with organizations around the world, is pursuing accessibility of the Web through five primary areas of work: technology, guidelines, tools, education & outreach, and research & development.

On May 5, 1999 W3C announced the release of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines as a recommendation. The guidelines provide principles for accessible design such as the need to provide alternatives for audio and visual information. Each guideline has associated checkpoints explaing how these accessibility principles apply to specific features of web sites. The guidelines are designed to be forward-compatible with evolving web technologies, yet enable sites to degrade gracefully when accessed by legacy browsers.

W3C - Web Accessibility Business Case Documents Published 2005-08-23: The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) has published "Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization." The 5-page resource suite describes social, technical, financial, legal and policy aspects of Web accessibility. It is designed to help organizations develop their own customized business case for Web accessibility. It provides text that can be used as is, as well as guidance on identifying the most relevant factors for a specific organization. Visit the WAI home page for more information on making the Web accessible to people with disabilities.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 - pdf file (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader) or HTML version

List of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 - pdf file (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader) or HTML version

Getting Started: Making a Web Site Accessible

Policies Relating to Web Accessibility

References on Web Accessibility

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) - New Summary of User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 6 April 2001 Pdf version can be downloaded from here (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader): "Abstract This informative appendix summarizes the principal goals and structure of "User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" [UAAG10]. Status of this document This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. The latest status of this document series is maintained at the W3C..."

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Draft August 24, 2001 - W3C published the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0) as a Recommendation in May 1999. This Working Draft for version 2.0 builds on WCAG 1.0. It has the same aim: explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. Incorporating feedback on WCAG 1.0, this Working Draft of version 2.0 focuses on checkpoints. It attempts to apply checkpoints to a wider range of technologies and to use wording that may be understood by a more varied audience.

User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Become a W3C Candidate Recommendation 13 September 2001: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (UAAG) to Candidate Recommendation. This document provides guidelines for designing user agents that lower barriers to Web accessibility for people with visual, hearing, physical, and cognitive disabilities. Comments are invited through December. The companion Techniques Working Draft is also updated. Read the press release, the implementation report, and more about the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative

Wombat Working Draft Published - 21 December 2001: The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of "Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines" known as "Wombat." The guidelines are for developers who wish to design authoring tools that produce accessible Web content and who wish to create accessible authoring interfaces. Comments are welcome. Visit the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative.

Web Accessibility Initiative Design for All - WAI DA Update, February 2002 - Contents: 1. EC Communique on adoption of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines; 2. Getting Started: Making a Web Site Accessible, 3. Interested in reviewing Web pages for accessibility? 4. Education and Outreach Meeting in Cannes, 28 February and 1 March, 2002, 5. Report from Education and Outreach Working Group meeting in Amsterdam, June 2001, 6. W3C seeks implementations of User Agent Accessibility Guidelines, 7. About the Web Accessibility Initiative and this WAI DA Update

Auxiliary Benefits of Accessible Web Design (W3C - Web Accessiblity Initiative) - Note: This draft WAI Resource is under development by W3C/WAI's Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG). We invite review and discussion. Please address your feedback to wai-eo-editors@w3.org, a mailing list with a public archive. "This document is one of several resources created to assist the preparation of a business case for the implementation of Web accessibility. It describes the many business, technical and other benefits to the organization above and beyond the straightforward benefits to people with disabilities that can be realized by applying the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 1.0) to Web sites...."

W3C - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Requirements Published 29 April 2002: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a Working Draft of "Requirements for WCAG 2.0." Written for page authors, site developers, and developers of authoring tools, WCAG checkpoints explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities and to all users. Feedback is welcomed. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative.

W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Receives Roland Wagner Award - 20 July 2002: The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) received the Roland Wagner Award at the International Conference on Computers Helping People (ICCHP) in Linz, Austria. The award was given by the Austrian Computer Society, in recognition of WAI's international contributions to making Web technologies accessible to the broadest possible audience. Learn more about Web accessibility.

W3C - User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Last Call Published, 21 August 2002: The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has released "User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" as a Last Call Working Draft. Comments are welcome through 18 September. Written for developers of user agents, the guidelines lower barriers to Web accessibility for people with disabilities (visual, hearing, physical, cognitive, and neurological). The companion "Techniques" Working Draft is also updated. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative.

W3C - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Working Draft Published, 22 August 2002: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a Working Draft of the "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0." Following WCAG checkpoints makes Web content accessible to people with disabilities, and to a variety of Web-enabled devices, such as phones, handhelds, kiosks, and network appliances. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative.

W3C - XML Accessibility Guidelines Working Draft Published - 3 October 2002: The WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of XML Accessibility Guidelines. The draft is a guide for tools designers and authors of XML formats. It explains how to design accessible XML applications that lower barriers to Web accessibility for people with disabilities. Comments are welcome. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative.

W3C - User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Become a W3C Proposed Recommendation - 17 October 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 14 November. Written for developers of user agents, the guidelines lower barriers to Web accessibility for people with disabilities (visual, hearing, physical, cognitive, and neurological). The companion Techniques Working Draft is updated. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative.

W3C - User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Become a W3C Recommendation - 17 December 2002: The World Wide Web Consortium today released User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. Written for software developers as part of the Web Accessibility Initiative, the guidelines explain how to design browsers and media players that lower barriers to the Web for people with disabilities (visual, hearing, physical, cognitive, and neurological) and improve usability for all users. Companion techniques are updated. Read the press release, FAQ and 23 testimonials.

  • W3C promotes Web access for disabled, by Paul Krill. Computerworld, 18 December, 2002. "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Tuesday issued guidelines intended to make Web browsers and multimedia players more accessible to disabled persons. The W3C's User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 1.0 is a formal W3C Recommendation, meaning it is "essentially an Internet standard for browser and media player design," said Judy Brewer, director of Web accessibility at W3C..."
  • W3C sets specs for browser, player accessibility, By ComputerWire. The Register, Posted: 20 December 2002. "Standards for accessibility to browsers and multimedia players have been hammered out by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) after four-years' work. .."
  • W3C To Open Web to Those With Disabilities, By Thor Olavsrud, InternetNews, December 17, 2002. "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Tuesday advanced the final set of guidelines in its triad of recommendations geared at making the Web more accessible to those with disabilities..."

Web consortium captures captioning, By Paul Festa. CNET News.com, January 21, 2003. "The Web's leading standards organization launched a new group to bring text captioning to streaming media. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) chartered the Timed Text Working Group (TTWG) to come up with a streaming text specification, based on XML (Extensible Markup Language), that will synchronize text with video or audio streamed over the Internet..."

W3C - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Working Draft Published - 24 June 2003: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a Working Draft for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 based on broad design principles. Following WCAG checkpoints makes Web content accessible to people with disabilities and to users of a variety of Web-enabled devices such as phones, handhelds, kiosks and network appliances. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative.

W3C - Working Draft: Inaccessibility of Visually-Oriented Anti-Robot Tests - 2003-11-05: The WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of Inaccessibility of Visually-Oriented Anti-Robot Tests. Requests for visual verification of a bitmapped image pose problems for those who are blind, have low vision, or have a learning disability such as dyslexia. The draft examines ways for systems to test for human users while preserving access for users with disabilities. Comments are welcome. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative.

W3C - Working Draft: HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0 9 December 2003: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0. The draft provides information to Web content developers who wish to satisfy the success criteria of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, currently a Working Draft. Feedback is welcomed. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative.

W3C - Working Draft: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 2004-03-11: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a Working Draft for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. Version 2.0 widens the range of technologies covered and simplifies wording. Following WCAG checkpoints makes Web content accessible to people with disabilities and to users of a variety of Web-enabled devices. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative.

W3C - Working Draft: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 2004-08-02: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released an updated Working Draft for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. Version 2.0 widens the range of technologies covered and simplifies wording. Following WCAG checkpoints makes Web content accessible to people with disabilities and to users of a variety of Web-enabled devices. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative.

WAI Web Site Redesign Project - "The WAI Site Task Force of EOWG (WSTF) is redesigning the WAI Web site following a user-centered design process (UCD). The primary goals of the redesign are to provide: increased usability of the WAI Web site, demonstrated by usability testing, and increased use of the resources on the WAI Web site due to better usability..."

W3C Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines

W3C Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 - On 3 February 2000, The World Wide Web Consortium released guidelines for authoring tools to make Web sites more accessible to people with disabilities. The guidelines consist of 28 checkpoints to help disabled people use the Web. See http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-ATAG10-20000203/

Abstract

This specification provides guidelines for Web authoring tool developers. Its purpose is two-fold: to assist developers in designing authoring tools that produce accessible Web content and to assist developers in creating an accessible authoring interface.

Authoring tools can enable, encourage, and assist users ("authors") in the creation of accessible Web content through prompts, alerts, checking and repair functions, help files and automated tools. It is just as important that all people be able to author content as it is for all people to have access to it. The tools used to create this information must therefore be accessible themselves. Adoption of these guidelines will contribute to the proliferation of Web content that can be read by a broader range of readers and authoring tools that can be used by a broader range of authors.

This document is part of a series of accessibility documents published by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

W3C HTML Validator Service

W3C HTML Validator Service - This is an easy-to-use HTML validation service based on an SGML parser. It checks HTML documents for compliance with W3C HTML Recommendations and other HTML standards.

W3C - Requirements for WCAG 2.0 Checklists and Techniques

W3C - Requirements for WCAG 2.0 Checklists and Techniques Published 7 February 2003: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a Working Draft of Requirements for WCAG 2.0 Checklists and Techniques. The draft specifies intended uses, scope and structure for the technology-specific documents produced by the Working Group. Feedback is welcomed. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative.

Working Drafts: Checklists for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 2005-06-30: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released First Public Working Drafts of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Checklist in both table and linear formats. Serving as an appendix to and quick reference for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, the checklists give all success criteria and their levels, linked to WCAG 2.0 for more information. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative.

W3C - Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

W3C - Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 - W3C Note 6 November 2000

This document is the gateway to a series of related documents that provide techniques for satisfying the requirements defined in "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" [WCAG10]. This series includes:

1."Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0", the current document, which is the gateway to the other documents.
2."Core Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0", which discusses the accessibility themes and general techniques that apply across technologies.
3."HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0", which provides examples and strategies for authoring accessible Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) content.
4."CSS Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0", which provides examples and strategies to help authors write Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) as part of accessible content design.

W3C - Working Drafts: Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 2004-11-19: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a First Public Working Draft of Client-side Scripting Techniques for WCAG 2.0 and three updated Working Drafts: HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0, CSS Techniques for WCAG 2.0, and General Techniques for WCAG 2.0. The drafts give guidance on using HTML, XHTML, ECMAScript and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to create accessible content. Deprecated examples illustrate techniques that content developers should not use. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative.

Working Drafts: Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 2005-06-30: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released four updated Working Drafts of techniques for WCAG 2.0: Client-side Scripting, CSS, General and HTML. The drafts give guidance on using ECMAScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), HTML and XHTML to create accessible Web content. The Working Group invites comments, especially on the general techniques. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative.

W3C - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Working Draft

W3C - Working Draft: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 2004-11-19: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released an updated Working Draft for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. This draft focuses on guidelines, attempts to apply guidelines to a wider range of technologies, and uses wording that may be understood by a more varied audience. Following WCAG checkpoints makes Web content accessible to people with disabilities and to users of a variety of Web-enabled devices. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative.

Working Draft: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 2005-06-30: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. The Working Group invites comments on the number of conformance levels, how to address validity, and the resolution of previously raised issues. Following WCAG makes Web content more accessible to the vast majority of users, including people with disabilities and older users, using many different devices including a wide variety of assistive technology. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative.

Working Drafts: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 2005-11-23: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released Working Drafts of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 and HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0 and a First Public Working Draft of Understanding WCAG 2.0. Following WCAG makes Web content more accessible to the vast majority of users, including people with disabilities and older users, using many different devices including a wide variety of assistive technology. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative..."

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