Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are part of a series 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 improving web accessibility, 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.
WCAG 2.
2 became a W3C Recommendation on 5 October 2023.

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