Once with the great pace of development of the World Wide Web, a new important problem appears: how to make the Internet accessible for the people with disabilities?
As an answer to this question appeared the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines document, first version 1.0, and more recently the 2.0 version. It covers a great range of recommendations that would enable the Internet to be much more accessible. After following these recommendations from W3C, a wider range of people with disabilities, such as blindness and low vision,
As we all are aware that no one is appointed to check the web. The web is an unbolted standard; a web is a place where the person has no limitations on his postings and is free to choose the content of their choice. The web is not restricted to limited people, but everyone is free to use it. The main strength of the web is its decentralization and it openness. But it is unable to work without few types of formats that are used for upgrading the information. That is when the (W3C) the World Wide Web consortium came into existence.
The World Wide Web
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) are a group formed by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) that develop strategies, guidelines, and resources to help make the Web accessible to everybody, including those with temporary or permanent disabilities. It has links into the other domains of the W3C and is sponsored by Government agencies and Corporate companies. It is hosted from the W3C bases in US, Europe and Asia.
What is covered in this site?
There are 3 main authoring guides created by the WAI for website accessibility. There are the Web Content
W3C accessibility group released WCAG 2.0 Working Draft, the last call for reviewers to send their comments and suggestions on different issues for the new standard. The latest recommendation WCAG 1.0 was published on May 1999, and I think the 2.0 recommendation will be ready by end 2008 since there should be first a Candidate Recommendation then Proposed Recommendation before make it final.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) covers a wide range of issues and recommendations for making Web content more accessible. This document
In a sense, nobody is in charge of the web. The web is an open standard, with no restrictions on who can post content, or what that content should be about. The web belongs to everybody, and so it belongs to nobody. The openness and decentralization of the web is one of its greatest strengths. But it wouldn't work at all without some sort of standard way of encoding the information. That's where the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) comes in.
The W3C is an international, vendor-neutral group that determines the protocols and standards for the web. They
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is an initiative set-out by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to develop strategies, guidelines, and resources to help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities.
Web accessibility means that visitors with disabilities can still access the web. This includes navigating, understanding, and interpreting the information available. Ensuring website are accessible to all is vital as around 10% of people in the UK have some sort of disability.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
The WCAG explain
In a sense, nobody is in charge of the web. The web is an open standard, with no restrictions on who can post content, or what that content should be about. The web belongs to everybody, and so it belongs to nobody. The openness and decentralization of the web is one of its greatest strengths. But it wouldn't work at all without some sort of standard way of encoding the information. That's where the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) comes in.
The W3C is an international, vendor-neutral group that determines the protocols and standards for the web. They
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies - specifications, guidelines, software, and tools. W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative, WAI, in coordination with organisations around the world, pursues accessibility of the Web through five primary areas of work: technology, guidelines, tools, education and outreach, and research and development.
The WAI website contains hyperlinked guideline specifications, checklists and techniques for web content, authoring tools, user agents and XML. The WAI site also includes quick tips,
WAI develops...
* guidelines widely regarded as the international standards for Web accessibility
* support materials to help understand and implement Web accessibility
* resources, through international collaboration
WAI welcomes...
* participation from around the world
* volunteers to review, implement, and promote guidelines
* dedicated participants in interest groups or working groups
[@@ The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) commitment to lead the Web to its full potential includes promoting a high degree of usability for people
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Following these guidelines will make content accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech difficulties, photosensitivity and combinations of these. Following these guidelines will also make your Web content more accessible to the vast majority of users, including some older users.
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI™) is one of four domains of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C®). W3C was created in 1994 to develop common protocols that promote the evolution of the World Wide Web and ensure its interoperability. The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) specifications are two of the most familiar outcomes of W3C's work. W3C has more than five hundred member organizations worldwide. Its domains are Architecture, User Interface, Technology and Society, and WAI, which works across the other three
When the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative recently put one of their technical recommendations, a new version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines or WCAG 2.0, in Last Call Working Draft status with a deadline of only a few weeks, it caused outrage in the web community. First there was Joe Clark’s article To Hell with WCAG 2.0, soon followed by various other initiatives, and suddenly, the deadline for public review was extended from May 31 to June 22. But don’t consider it a victory, for while we may have more time, there is still no
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