WCAG 2 - a backward step for accessibility?
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
My latest article for Irish web consultants iQ Content explores the vexed question of the newly-published update to the accessibility standards for websites:
As people who work with accessibility and websites, we’re used to the arcane world of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), but the new guidelines are going to change things a lot, and maybe not for the better.
Published in 1999 by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) committee of the W3C, version 1.0 outlines three priority levels of accessibility attainable by websites, from the basic level one (A) to the practically unobtainable level 3 (AAA).
The WAI have been working for years in updating the guidelines. This is a good thing, as the 1.0 requirements are confusing and outdated – having not kept up with recent best practice in the field.
Read the full article on the iQ Content site.