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Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
The international authority on accessibilty standards and guidelines is the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). It is part of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and works in partnership with organisations involved in all areas from industry to government, disability and research. Through collaboration, it develops guidelines which are established as the international standard on web accessibility together with a range of support materials to help implementation. These are the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.0 and it is recommended that conformance with WCAG 2.0 forms a part of all web development policies. A quick reference tool for meeting WCAG2.0 has been produced.
WAI has developed three levels of accessibility compliance: levels A, AA and AAA where level A represents achieving the minimum set of requirements and AAA the highest level.
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