The Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines 1.0
- were developed by the Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG)
- became a W3C Recommendation 5 May 1999
- explain how to make accessible Web sites
- contain general guidelines
- have three priority levels of normative checkpoints
- have extensive supporting resources (see next slide)
The WCAG WG is currently developing an advanced version (WCAG 2.0),
however:
- WCAG 1.0 remains the stable and referenceable version
NOTE: These slides were last updated in 2005. Some of the information is out of date. Updated information is avalable from the WAI home page www.w3.org/WAI/
