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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines are part of a series of guidleines published by the principle international standards organization for the World Wide Web, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Opens in a new window.

The guidelines focus on making online content accessible, primarily for disabled users, but also for all user agents, including highly limited devices, such as mobile phones and MP3 players.

"Accessible" means usable to a wide range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning difficulties, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech difficulties, photosensitivity and combinations of these.
–W3C

The Guidelines document, in its current form as WCAG 2.0 Opens in a new window, provides information about each specific Guideline as well as describing how to meet the Success Criteria and providing techniques for each Success Criteria.

Following these guidelines will also make your Web content more usable to many other users, including older users. It will also enable people to access Web content using many different devices - including a wide variety of assistive technologies and mobile technologies.
–W3C
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