Earlier Guidelines
The first web accessibility guideline was compiled by Gregg Vanderheiden and released in January 1995 just after the 1994 WWW II in Chicago (where Tim Berners-Lee first mentioned disability access in a keynote speech after seeing a pre-conference workshop on accessibility led by Mike Paciello).
Over 38 different Web access guidelines followed from various authors and organizations over the next few years. These were brought together in the Unified Web Site Accessibility Guidelines compiled by the at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Version 8 of the Unified Web Site Accessibility Guidelines, published in 1998, was used as the starting point for the W3C's WCAG 1.0.
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