The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a collection of ubergeeks who develop web standards that help all of our software play nicely together. Today, they announced the finalization of the next version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), meant to ensure that the web remains accessible to people with disabilities even as technology evolves.
If you're a geeky coder type, by all means dig in. The WCAG documents are written for people who are building websites, not people who are adding content to blogs using software that does the "building" for them. That's one of the reasons I started All Access Blogging (though I have not been able to give it the attention it deserves so far): to translate the world of accessibility guidelines intended for software developers into plain language that would help bloggers know what to focus on when making choices about how their blogs are set up and adding content.
So this is another "to do" for my 2009 - bring all my blogs up to date themselves, update the content here to reflect the new guidelines, and keep moving forward!
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