What is it about?
This is an examination of the standards process by which the second version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines came into being, many years after the first
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Why is it important?
The WCAG is supposed to help those with disabilities access the web. The standards making process in this case however left a great deal to be desired
Perspectives
This paper follows on from all the work done earlier in the decade on the need for better Web Accessibility in particular sectors and across the web in general, with a retrospective look at the making of the Standards.
Dr David G Kreps
National University of Ireland
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This page is a summary of: Code in action: Closing the black box of WCAG 2.0, A Latourian reading of Web accessibility, First Monday, September 2015, University of Illinois Libraries,
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v20i9.6166.
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