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Once with the great pace of development of the World Wide Web, a new important problem appears: how to make the Internet accessible for the people with disabilities? As an answer to this question appeared the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines document, first version 1.0, and more recently the 2.0 version. It covers a great range of recommendations that would enable the Internet to be much more accessible. After following these recommendations from W3C, a wider range of people with disabilities, such as blindness and low vision,

As we all are aware that no one is appointed to check the web. The web is an unbolted standard; a web is a place where the person has no limitations on his postings and is free to choose the content of their choice. The web is not restricted to limited people, but everyone is free to use it. The main strength of the web is its decentralization and it openness. But it is unable to work without few types of formats that are used for upgrading the information. That is when the (W3C) the World Wide Web consortium came into existence. The World Wide Web

The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) are a group formed by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) that develop strategies, guidelines, and resources to help make the Web accessible to everybody, including those with temporary or permanent disabilities. It has links into the other domains of the W3C and is sponsored by Government agencies and Corporate companies. It is hosted from the W3C bases in US, Europe and Asia. What is covered in this site? There are 3 main authoring guides created by the WAI for website accessibility. There are the Web Content

W3C accessibility group released WCAG 2.0 Working Draft, the last call for reviewers to send their comments and suggestions on different issues for the new standard. The latest recommendation WCAG 1.0 was published on May 1999, and I think the 2.0 recommendation will be ready by end 2008 since there should be first a Candidate Recommendation then Proposed Recommendation before make it final. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) covers a wide range of issues and recommendations for making Web content more accessible. This document