Web Content Accessibility Guidelines: for web designers?
Some have been noticing that Web Content Accessibility Guidelines themselves were not quite accessible to their target readers - the webmasters.
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has even created three sections of the guidelines: general description, about understanding the guidelines and the techniques, used to comply with them. It is quite ironic the organization, which goal is to create accessible web content, created more or less complex instructions for the web designers.
The interesting thing is not that it is written in an academic language (though some may have problems with it either), but that it is so enormous and covering a relatively small amount of points. Perhaps there should be a shorter version of WCAG? What seems strange that a simple checklist is hidden down below on the main page.
Though it certainly is great that a new set of guidelines is released to make websites accessible, it’d be much better for the released version to be accessible to it’s readers first.
To the businesses this means they will no longer have an excuse for not having a clue on how to make their websites accessible. Add to this law enforcement (US and UK (PDF) websites are to be accessible by law) and the game starts to get really interesting.
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