Loretta Guarino Reid
ABSTRACT
Since the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG) became a W3C recommendation in May 1999, the Web has changed dramatically. This paper describes some of the major issues encountered because of these changes and the approaches developed to address them in WCAG 2.0.
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