On May 5, 1999, the World Wide Web Consortium released the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, establishing clear, practical principles for accessible web design with detailed checkpoints for implementation.
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Screenshot with the headline, “W3C Issues Web Content Accessibility Guidelines as a Recommendation.” Sans-serif text is black against a white background.
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In smaller text below, “Read this page in” is followed by links for French (françias) and Japanese (日本語). The next line reads, “Published: 5 May 1999.”
