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Day 2: What is WCAG?

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (known as WCAG) are an internationally recognised set of recommendations for improving web accessibility. They explain how to make digital services, websites and apps accessible to everyone, including users with impairments to their:

  • vision - like severely sight impaired (blind), sight impaired (partially sighted) or colour blind people
  • hearing - like people who are deaf or have hearing loss
  • mobility - like those who find it difficult to use a mouse or keyboard
  • thinking and understanding - like people with dyslexia, autism or learning difficulties

They are based on 4 design principles, percievable, operable, understandable and robust.

The current live version is WCAG 2.2AA.

WCAG 2.0 Theme Song

Watch the WCAG 2.0 Theme Song video created by David MacDonald