This document provides guidelines to user agent developers for making their products accessible to people with disabilities. User agents include graphical desktop browsers, multimedia players, plug-ins, voice browsers, and other assistive technologies used to access Web content. Developers must ensure that user agent functionalities are accessible to users with disabilities and that user agents communicate with other user agents to provide additional functionalities necessary for full access to the Web. Each guidelines document explains what it means to conform to the guidelines. The present page provides additional information about using the conformance icons , on references to the guidelines in policy settings, and more.
Claimants are solely responsible for their claims and the use of the conformance icons .
Claimants are encouraged to conform to the most recent guidelines available. The URI of the guidelines. The date of the claim. The checkpoints of the chosen conformance level considered not applicable. Claimants should use the guidelines checklist for this purpose.