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November 24, 2004

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group of the W3 Consortium has released an updated "Working Draft for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0". The primary aim of the WCAG is to provide guidance and resources to the Internet community to explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities and to define target levels of accessibility.

From the W3C site:
"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."

For full text of the draft, see:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-WCAG20-20041119/

In addition, the WCAG Working Group released a First Public Working Draft of Client-side Scripting Techniques for WCAG 2.0 (http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-WCAG20-SCRIPT-TECHS-20041119/) and three updated Working Drafts:

The drafts give guidance on using HTML, XHTML, ECMAScript and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to create accessible content.

Posted by David Jakob at November 24, 2004 11:20 AM


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