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What is in the Presentation

Benefits of WCAG 2 presentation shows why you should use WCAG 2.0. It has 35 slides describing the following benefits:

IMPORTANT: Notes Section

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Permission and Reference

See the Permission and Reference section of the WAI Presentations page. The reference for this presentation is:

Benefits of WCAG 2. Shawn Lawton Henry, ed. Copyright © 2010 W3C® (MIT, ERCIM, Keio). Status: Updated 12 August 2010. www.w3.org/WAI/presentations/WCAG20_benefits/Overview

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Who Develops the Presentation

Benefits of WCAG 2 was developed by the WAI Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG), edited by Shawn Lawton Henry. Ian Pouncey, Sharron Rush, Wayne Dick, and Justin Thorp worked on the HTML/CSS version.

Comments are welcome to: wai-eo-editors@w3.org.