This week we will take a more detailed look at the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, or WCAG for short. This document is meant to be a guiding source for web designers and policy makers, so that web sites can be made more accessible. The WCAG is used as the foundation for the Bobby program, which you used last week. There are 14 separate guidelines that comprise the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Under each guideline can be found one or more checkpoints .
Checkpoints relate to the principles of the relevant guideline, and each one has a priority listing.
Priority one checkpoints must be satisfied to produce a page that is even minimally accessible. The techniques are stored in a different document, called the Techniques Document . Techniques are suggested ways to implement, or satisfy, the checkpoints. There's not any particularly easy way to approach the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines document. It is a very large, very comprehensive, very hyperlinked set of technical information and even larger when you include the Techniques document.