ISO/IEC 40500:2012 Information technology -- W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 es la normalización (estandarización) de WCAG 2.0 por ISO.
Este estándar alcanzó el estado 60.60 International Standard published (Estándar Internacional publicado) el 12 de octubre de 2012.
A partir de ahora, países como España podrán hacer referencia a este estándar en su legislación nacional. Así, mejorará la armonización en cuanto a legislación en materia de accesibilidad web entre diferentes países.
El W3C publicó la nota de prensa W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Approved as ISO/IEC International Standard anunciando la publicación de este estándar.
El resumen del estándar dice:
ISO/IEC 40500:2012 [Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0] covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Following these guidelines will make content accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech disabilities, photo-sensitivity and combinations of these. Following these guidelines will also often make your Web content more usable to users in general.
WCAG 2.0 success criteria are written as testable statements that are not technology-specific. Guidance about satisfying the success criteria in specific technologies, as well as general information about interpreting the success criteria, is provided in separate documents.
An overview of WCAG 2.0, the WCAG 2.0 standard, technical and education material supporting implementation of WCAG 2.0, and information on translating WCAG 2.0, are freely available from http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag#iso.
