Accessibility steps : How to design an accessible site : part 5

Step 5 - Is Mr WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) happy?

It is well worth bookmarking sites such as the WCAG site so that you can become familiar with the principles neede for current and future guidelines. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. This reference document for accessibility principles and design ideas is where it all happens. Some of the strategies discussed in this document address certain Web internationalization and mobile access concerns. However, this document focuses on accessibility and does not fully address the related concerns of other W3C Activities.

The WCAG are a very complete set of accessibility guidelines. They are so complete that sometimes it is nearly impossible to comply with them. Though some of the guidelines are rather vague and some are outdated, they will give you a good idea of what it takes to be truly accessible. Manually evaluate your page against these guidelines. The WCAG guidelines are broken into three priority levels, based upon level of importance or impact on accessibility - at very least, try to meet the Priority I and Priority II guidelines. The Priority III guidelines are more of a wish list for accessibility, but contain some very important items that should be included whenever possible. The Wave toolbar can alert you of non-compliance with many of the WCAG guidelines.

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