The name “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines” (WCAG) has always been a source of misunderstanding and contention. “Guidelines” implies that this document only guides you, gives you hints on how to make web content accessible. But that is only half of WCAG. The other half are “Guardrails” that prevent you from producing wholly inaccessible material. Guidelines The guidelines consist mostly of the Principles and Guidelines (oh!) of WCAG. There are four Principles that have in summ...
