WCAG 2.0 is now also ISO/IEC 40500!
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Shawn Henry
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We're very pleased to announce that WCAG 2.0 is now also an ISO International Standard, ISO/IEC 40500:2012. ISO/IEC 40500 is exactly the same as the original WCAG 2.0 standard from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), which remains freely available along with supporting resources from the WCAG Overview.
This means that more countries can formally adopt WCAG 2.0. Since it was published in 2008, WCAG 2.0 has already been adopted and referenced by many governments and organizations around the world. Now countries that only use ISO technical standards can adopt WCAG 2.0 by referencing ISO/IEC 40500.
For managers, developers, policy-makers, and others using ISO/IEC 40500 there are extensive supporting resources from W3C, including the WCAG 2.0 Overview, WCAG 2.0 at a Glance, How to Meet WCAG 2.0: A Customizable Quick Reference, Techniques for WCAG 2.0, Understanding WCAG 2.0, and W3C Authorized Translations of WCAG 2.0.
And for those who are already working with WCAG 2.0, you can now say you're also working with an ISO standard, ISO/IEC 40500.
Congrats for you to get
ISO/IEC recognition.valuable information to your customers.
dear sir
This is for your kind information that the Access to Information Programme
under prime minister office has recruit me as National Consultant - Web
Accessibility for persons with disability for developed the National web
accessibility guideline.
Bangladesh Government has decided to make 24 thousand websites and 200
E-services which will be accessible for people with disability. I have given
the responsibility to ensure the accessibility features of all government
websites. The above mentioned government decision came in line with Article
9 and Article 21 of UNCRPD and continuous advocacy by us.
If you are in a position to provide any technical support to ensure the web
accessibility such as any reference materials Or any example of National web
accessibility guideline where we can learn any key point of web
accessibility will be highly appreciable.
As we require your cooperation to ensure the standard of the web
accessibility and expect your full cooperation..
Sincerely yours,
Vashkar Bhattacharjee.
Hi, Vashkar Bhattacharjee, I replied to you in e-mail. ~Shawn