- From: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:01:40 -0500
- To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Dear WAI Interest Group Participants, We are please to announce that today W3C and JTC1, a joint technical committee of ISO and IEC, announced formal approval of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 as an ISO/IEC International Standard, ISO/IEC 40500:2012. "This important accessibility standard, which is already widely deployed internationally, can now benefit from additional formal recognition from ISO/IEC national bodies," noted Jeff Jaffe, W3C CEO. "Such recognition is expected to increase internationally harmonized uptake of WCAG 2.0 by governments, business, and the broader Web community." ISO/IEC 40500 is exactly the same as the original WCAG 2.0 from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), which is freely available from: <http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/> Supporting resources that provide practical advice for meeting ISO/IEC 40500 / WCAG 2.0 are available from the WCAG Overview at: <http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag> The full press release is here: <http://www.w3.org/2012/07/wcag2pas-pr.html> A blog open for comments is here: <http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/10/wcag_20_is_now_also_isoiec_405.html> (short URI: <http://bit.ly/wcag2isoB>) Tweet: <https://twitter.com/w3c_wai/status/257842562205904896> Please let us know if you have any questions. Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid cross-postings where possible. Regards, ~Shawn Lawton Henry, WAI Education & Outreach Judy Brewer, WAI Director ----- Shawn Lawton Henry W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) e-mail: shawn@w3.org phone: +1.617.395.7664 about: http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/
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