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Before 1996:
several accessibility guidelines on the Web
various quality
confusion on which one to trust
End 1996:
TRACE center produces Unified Guidelines
including HTML advices, browser advices, etc.
Spring 1997:
WAI started,
3 differents set of guidelines:
Web Content, User Agent, Authoring Tools
Fall 1997:
Work on Web Content Guidelines (then called Page Authors) really start
18 months, X public drafts, Y face-to-face meetings later:
we have a REC!




COMMENTS:

  • need to find X and Y value and check some dates

Ian Jacobs

W3C