WCAG 2.0: a web accessibility standard for the evolving web

  • Authors:
  • Loretta Guarino Reid;Andi Snow-Weaver

  • Affiliations:
  • Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA;IBM, Austin, TX

  • Venue:
  • W4A '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international cross-disciplinary conference on Web accessibility (W4A)
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Since the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG) became a W3C recommendation in May 1999, the Web has changed dramatically. This paper describes some of the major issues encountered because of these changes and the approaches developed to address them in WCAG 2.0.