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W3C Finalizes Disability Guidelines

Posted by timothy on from the smoothing-the-way dept.

AltImage writes "Bringing a five-year project to a significant milestone, the World Wide Web Consortium finalized guidelines for building browsers and media players that work better for people with disabilities. Read the full story here."

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  1. Re:pfft.. by Fweeky · · Score: 4, Informative

    Microsoft is part of the W3C, and help make many of these standards. If you look at the acknowledgments you'll see Microsoft is actually a member of the working group responsible for these guidelines.

  2. Other Web Accessibility Initiatives by AShocka · · Score: 3, Informative
    The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG) are in draft form and are trying to improve on WCAG 1.0. If you really what to contribute to them, or can contribute in anyway through writing parsers, etc, go ahead and join the WCAG GL

    Also of interest in the same area are;