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- How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process: Milestones and Opportunities to Contribute
- Introduces how WAI works through a process designed to ensure broad community input and encourage consensus development.
The guidelines overview pages listed below introduce WAI accessibility guidelines and their related documents, such as:
- techniques to help implement the guidelines
- translations of the documents into different languages
- checklists
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Overview, WCAG 1.0, WCAG 2.0 Draft, WCAG 2.0 Quick Reference, WCAG 2 FAQ
- Addresses the information in a Web site, including text, images, forms, sounds, and such.
- Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) Overview, ATAG 1.0
- Addresses software that creates Web sites.
- User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) Overview, UAAG 1.0
- Addresses Web browsers and media players, and relates to assistive technologies.
- Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) Overview
- Addresses the expression of Web site evaluation test results in a platform independent format.
- Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) Suite Overview
- Addresses dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications developed with AJAX, DHTML, and other Web technologiess.
- Accessibility Information for Specific Technologies
- Links to information about accessibility of XML, SVG, SMIL, and other specific technologies.
See also:
- WAI Technical Papers - Links to technical papers, including the W3C Note on Inaccessible
and proceedings from research and development events. - Components of Web Accessibility - Shows how Web accessibility depends on several components of Web development and interaction working together, and how the WAI guidelines (WCAG, ATAG, UAAG) apply.