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In a press release Thursday (Dec 11, 2008), the W3C has promoted the new WCAG 2.0 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines into the current recommendation.

The new WCAG 2.0 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (current W3C Recommendation) builds and expands on the previous WCAG 1.0 Accessibility Guidelines released several years ago.

The WCAG 1.0 and WCAG 2.0 Checkpoint Comparison is a great place to start if you’re already familiar with WCAG 1.0 and are looking to implement the new changes.

Building Sites With Accessibility in Mind

The nice thing about the new WCAG 2.0 checkpoint list is that it explains the reasons behind and benefits of each checkpoint.

It also explains how to meet these criterion, and also how to fail to meet them. This helps designers and developers to not just rigidly go by the letter of the recommendation, but rather, adhere to the intent.

I think this will make for much more accessible sites in the near future because it stresses building sites that meet the intentions behind the guidelines instead of just having checkpoints to meet.

What do you think of the new WCAG 2.0 Recommendation? Have you started using these on any of your sites?

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