30/06/2008 18.13.34Two months ago, at the end of April, I read on the WWW Consortium Website (W3C) the announcement about pubblication of Web Content Accessibilty Guidelines 2.0 as Candidate Recommendation and about the expectation of the Working Group to obtain the most number of implementations by developers and webdesigner whitin June 30 2008.
I asked to partecipate to the implementation phase offering my cooperation and after the approval of the working group, I began, in the middle of May, to implement the WCAG 2.0 in my Content Management System (CMS) application.
...and now, here is it!
The StandardWeb application is developed using Microsoft Asp.Net techonology and generates webpages reading contents from a database.
The generated webpages are compliant to XHTML 1.0 Strict, and use the CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) to separate the content from presentation giving to the end-user the most flexibility to adapte the presentation to his preferences.
Now the pages should be compliant also to the WCAG 2.0. I've just submitted this implementation to the W3C and I'm waiting for the result!
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines - WCAG 2.0 are the guidelines to build webpages, and in general every web content, accessible to people with disabilities. I think that every developer or webdesigner should keep in mind these rules not only to help some people but also to be conformant to the standards and to concretize a net of data compliant to as much browsers and technologies as possible in the present and in the future.
...Read StandardWeb: a test implementation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0)