Web Accessibility Initiative

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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)'s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is an effort to improve the accessibility of the World Wide Web (WWW or Web) for people using a wide range of user agent devices, not just standard web browsers. This is especially important for people with physical disabilities which require such devices to access the Web.

The W3C was founded in 1994 to advance the Web. It is responsible for the development of uniform protocols to assure the interoperability of the Web. The WAI, part of the W3C, has developed a number of guidelines that can help to make Web sites more accessible, especially from the view of physically disabled people.

1 Guidelines
2 See also
3 External links

[edit] Guidelines

[edit] Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

For more details on this topic, see Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

This Web Content Accessibility Guideline 1.0 (known as WCAG) was developed in 1999. The WCAG are a set of guidelines on making content accessible, primarily for disabled users, but also for all user agents, including highly limited devices, such as cell phones.

[edit] Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG)

Developed by the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group; the ATAG 1.0 became a W3C Recommendation on the February 3, 2000. The ATAG are a set of guidelines for authoring tool developers (HTML editors) in both creating a tool which is accessible to disabled end users, and a tool which creates accessible web pages.

[edit] User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG)

Developed by the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group the UAAG 1.0 became a W3C Recommendation on 17 December 2002. The UAAG are a set of guidelines for user agent developers (such as web browsers and media players) aimed at making the user agent accessible to disabled users.