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The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are part of a series of web accessibility guidelines published by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the main international standards organization for the Internet.
Web accessibility, or eAccessibility, [1] is the inclusive practice of ensuring there are no barriers that prevent interaction with, or access to, websites on the World Wide Web by people with physical disabilities, situational disabilities, and socio-economic restrictions on bandwidth and speed. When sites are correctly designed, developed and ...
Web Accessibility Initiative. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)'s Web Accessibility Initiative ( WAI) is an effort to improve the accessibility of the World Wide Web for people with disabilities. People with disabilities encounter difficulties when using computers generally, but also on the Web.
Website accessibility is when a website is created to be accessible to all persons, regardless of their abilities or disabilities, conditions, or circumstances. While there are laws about website ...
Web accessibility guidelines have existed for decades, including alternative text for images, closed captioning on videos/audio, and the ability to navigate a site entirely with a keyboard.
BS 8878. British Standard 8878 ( BS 8878) [1] is a Web Accessibility Code of Practice which was published by the BSI Group (also known as the British Standards Institution or BSI). The standard was officially launched on 7 December 2010. BS 8878 defines a process for creating and embedding a web accessibility strategy within an organisation.
Web Accessibility Initiative – Accessible Rich Internet Applications ( WAI-ARIA) is a technical specification published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that specifies how to increase the accessibility of web pages, in particular, dynamic content, and user interface components developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies.
In the end, this Federal Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility and Compliance Act, with revisions, was enacted as the new Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, in 1998. Section 508 addresses legal compliance through the process of market research and government procurement and also has technical standards against which ...