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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.

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