Acronyms and Jargon
- Jaws
- The most popular "talking web browser" software
- Lynx
- The most common text-only browser
- W3C
- World Wide Web Consortium
The body responsible for setting standards on the web - WAI
- The Web Access Initiative
A W3C initiative to improve the accessibility of the web - WCAG
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Checklists and descriptions of how to make a website accessible, provided by the WAI.
The WCAG define three levels of accessibility compliance: single A, double A, and triple A, where triple A is the highest level - DDA
- The Disability Discrimination Act is the UK legislation which covers accessibility issues on the web
- Section 508
- US Federal law regarding accessibility, similar in scope to the DDA.
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