4.3 Korean WCAG

I exchanged information with Korea at Joint Workshop of Core-NGI/ITRC (November 25-27, 2004, Daejong, Korea). Presented talks are:

Web accessibility standards and policies in Japan

Takayuki Watanabe

Korean policies for improving web accessibility

Doo Jin Choi (Digital Opportunity Research Center, KADO).

• Enacting"Recommendable Guidelines to improve Accessibility for the handicapped and the elderly to the IT services and IT products" (Recommendation, not obligation)

Korean Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and Future Extensions

Sukil Kim (Chair of Korean WCAG WG, Chungbuk National University).

• KWCAG version 1.0 was released in November 2003.
• KWCAG 1.0 consists of 14 Guidelines: perceivable 3, operable 6，understandable 3, and robustness : 2 guidelines
• Comparison between KWCAG 1.0 & Section 508

Social understanding of Web accessibility is still poor in Korea.