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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 ...
The Directive on the accessibility of websites and mobile applications also known as Directive (EU) 2016/2102 was adopted by the European Union (EU) in 2016. [1] This Directive applies to public sector organizations of member states of the European Union. The goal was to ensure that all public sector organizations were accessible for the 80 ...
We endeavor to follow those standards used by the Federal government for technology accessibility for people with disabilities (Section 508), and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2. ...
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 ...
t. e. The general term "accessibility" has different meanings. Throughout this project, we stick to the definition of W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI): "Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web. More specifically, Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and ...