WCAG
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WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) is an internationally recognized set of guidelines that define how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| WCAG canonical | 8 |
| Web Content Accessibility Guidelines | 7 |
| WCAG 2.0 | 3 |
| WCAG 2.1 | 3 |
| WCAG 1.0 | 1 |
| WCAG 2.1 AA | 1 |
| WCAG 2.2 | 1 |
| WCAG Recommendation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20842 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: WCAG Context triple: [World Wide Web Consortium, developsStandard, WCAG]
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A.
WAI
WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) program that develops guidelines, resources, and standards to make the web accessible to people with disabilities.
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B.
W3C Recommendation
A W3C Recommendation is a mature, stable web standard published by the World Wide Web Consortium to promote interoperability and best practices across the World Wide Web.
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C.
World Wide Web Consortium
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization responsible for developing open protocols and guidelines to ensure the long-term growth and interoperability of the Web.
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D.
W3C Director
The W3C Director is the chief leadership role within the World Wide Web Consortium, responsible for setting its strategic direction and making final decisions on web standards.
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E.
CCC
The CCC, or Civilian Conservation Corps, was a New Deal work relief program in the United States during the 1930s and early 1940s that employed young men in conservation and public works projects such as reforestation, park development, and soil erosion control.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: WCAG Target entity description: WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) is an internationally recognized set of guidelines that define how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities.
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A.
WAI
WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) program that develops guidelines, resources, and standards to make the web accessible to people with disabilities.
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B.
W3C Recommendation
A W3C Recommendation is a mature, stable web standard published by the World Wide Web Consortium to promote interoperability and best practices across the World Wide Web.
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C.
World Wide Web Consortium
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization responsible for developing open protocols and guidelines to ensure the long-term growth and interoperability of the Web.
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D.
W3C Director
The W3C Director is the chief leadership role within the World Wide Web Consortium, responsible for setting its strategic direction and making final decisions on web standards.
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E.
CCC
The CCC, or Civilian Conservation Corps, was a New Deal work relief program in the United States during the 1930s and early 1940s that employed young men in conservation and public works projects such as reforestation, park development, and soil erosion control.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (69)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ISO standard
ⓘ
W3C Recommendation ⓘ W3C Recommendation ⓘ W3C Recommendation ⓘ accessibility standard ⓘ accessibility standard ⓘ web accessibility guideline ⓘ |
| abbreviationOf |
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
ⓘ
linked to:
WCAG
|
| addresses |
auditory disabilities
ⓘ
cognitive disabilities ⓘ neurological disabilities ⓘ physical disabilities ⓘ speech disabilities ⓘ visual disabilities ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
mobile content
ⓘ
web applications ⓘ web content ⓘ |
| conformanceLevelsDefinedAs |
A
ⓘ
AA ⓘ AAA ⓘ |
| extends |
WCAG 2.0
ⓘ
linked to:
WCAG
WCAG 2.1 ⓘ
linked to:
WCAG
|
| fullName |
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
ⓘ
linked to:
WCAG
|
| goal | improve accessibility for people with disabilities ⓘ |
| hasConformanceLevel |
A
ⓘ
A ⓘ A ⓘ AA ⓘ AA ⓘ AA ⓘ AAA ⓘ AAA ⓘ AAA ⓘ |
| hasGuidelineCount | 12 ⓘ |
| hasPrinciple |
Operable
ⓘ
Perceivable ⓘ Robust ⓘ Understandable ⓘ |
| hasSuccessCriterionCount | 61 ⓘ |
| hasTranslation | multiple languages ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
WCAG 1.0
ⓘ
linked to:
WCAG
WCAG 2.0 ⓘ
linked to:
WCAG
WCAG 2.1 ⓘ
linked to:
WCAG
WCAG 2.2 ⓘ
linked to:
WCAG
WCAG 3.0 (draft) ⓘ
linked to:
W3C Working Draft
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| maintainedBy |
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
ⓘ
linked to:
WAI
World Wide Web Consortium ⓘ |
| organizedBy | four principles ⓘ |
| partOf |
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
ⓘ
linked to:
WAI
|
| principlesAcronym | POUR ⓘ |
| publicationDate |
1999-05-05
ⓘ
2008-12-11 ⓘ 2018-06-05 ⓘ 2023-10-05 ⓘ |
| publishedBy |
World Wide Web Consortium
ⓘ
World Wide Web Consortium ⓘ World Wide Web Consortium ⓘ World Wide Web Consortium ⓘ |
| publisherWebsite | https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/ ⓘ |
| status | active ⓘ |
| supersededBy |
WCAG 2.0
ⓘ
linked to:
WCAG
WCAG 2.1 ⓘ
linked to:
WCAG
|
| targetAudience |
content authors
ⓘ
designers ⓘ policy makers ⓘ web developers ⓘ |
| usedAsBasisFor |
many national accessibility regulations
ⓘ
organizational accessibility policies ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: WCAG Description of subject: WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) is an internationally recognized set of guidelines that define how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: WCAG
linked to: WCAG
linked to: WCAG
linked to: WCAG
linked to: WCAG
linked to: WCAG
linked to: WCAG
linked to: WCAG
linked to: WCAG
linked to: WCAG