Web Content Accessibility Guidelines | |
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Abbreviation | WCAG |
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Status | W3C Recommendation |
Year started | January 1995 |
First published | 9 May 1999 |
Latest version | 2.2 October 5, 2023[1] |
Preview version | 3.0 July 24, 2023[2] |
Organization | W3C, ISO, IEC[3] |
Committee | Accessibility Guidelines Working Group |
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Domain | Web accessibility |
Copyright | © 2020–2023 W3C® (MIT, ERCIM, Keio, Beihang). |
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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]