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WAI: Strategies, guidelines, resources to make the Web accessible to people with disabilities

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Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Home

1. Introducing Accessibility
2. »Guidelines & Techniques
   1. Web Content (WCAG)
   2. Authoring Tool (ATAG)
   3. User Agent (UAAG)
   4. Evaluation Language (EARL)
   5. Specific Technologies
3. Managing Accessibility
4. Evaluating Accessibility
5. WAI Groups
6. About WAI

WAI Guidelines and Techniques

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

Addresses the information in a Web site, including text, images, forms, sounds, and such.

Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) Overview

Addresses software that creates Web sites.

User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) Overview

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.

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.

Document Information

[Contacting WAI] Feedback welcome to wai-eo-editors@w3.org (a publicly archived list).

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