Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

WCAG
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
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AbbreviationWCAG
StatusW3C Recommendation
Year startedJanuary 1995 (1995-01)
First published9 May 1999 (1999-05-09)
Latest version2.2
October 5, 2023; 12 months ago (2023-10-05)[1]
Preview version3.0
July 24, 2023; 15 months ago (2023-07-24)[2]
OrganizationW3C, ISO, IEC[3]
CommitteeAccessibility Guidelines Working Group
Editors
  • Andrew Kirkpatrick
  • Joshue O Connor
  • Alastair Campbell
  • Ben Caldwell
  • Michael Cooper
  • Loretta Guarino Reid
  • Gregg Vanderheiden
  • Wendy Chisholm
  • John Slatin
  • Jason White
  • Rachael Bradley Montgomery
  • Jeanne Spellman
  • Shawn Lauriat
[1]
DomainWeb accessibility
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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. They are a set of recommendations for making Web content more accessible, primarily for people with disabilities—but also for all user agents, including highly limited devices, such as mobile phones. WCAG 2.0 was published in December 2008 and became an ISO standard, ISO/IEC 40500:2012 in October 2012.[3] WCAG 2.2 became a W3C Recommendation on 5 October 2023.[1]

  1. ^ a b c Campbell, Alastair; Adams, Chuck; Montgomery, Rachel Bradley; Cooper, Michael; Kirkpatrick, Andrew, eds. (5 October 2023). "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2". 2.2. W3C. Archived from the original on 5 October 2023. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  2. ^ Spellman, Jeanne; Montgomery, Rachael Bradley; Cooper, Michael; Lauriat, Shawn; Adams, Chuck; Campbell, Alastair, eds. (24 July 2023). "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0". 3.0. W3C. Archived from the original on 27 September 2023. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  3. ^ a b "ISO - ISO/IEC 40500:2012 - Information technology — W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0". ISO. ISO, IEC. 2012. Archived from the original on 7 December 2017. Retrieved 6 April 2021.