As of 26 February 2008, the WCAG Samurai errata for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 are available. The WCAG Samurai was a group of developers, led by Joe Clark, that publishes corrections for, and extensions to, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0.What a huge leap forward for the web! Web accessibility is a crucial factor for real users of web sites, but I’ll bet most web site owners have never heard of it, and that many web developers don’t bother to even try to comply with WCAG 1.0. And for those that have and do bother to try, the official guidelines outlined in WCAG 1.0 are outdated, hard to understand in some cases, difficult to follow in others, and impossible to follow in some. The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has been working on the very controversial WCAG 2 for some time, but many experienced web developers feeling it will be a huge step backward.The WCAG Samurai have done all web developers a great favor by publishing their well thought out errata to the WCAG 1.0 guidelines, making them more practical and far more clear. They’ve also eliminated the guidelines that were impossible to follow. The intent of the Samurai is that we should not follow WCAG 2. Their errata provides with with a clear set of guidelines that we can use right now, and after WCAG 2 is published.Many thanks to the WCAG Samuri!Web developers – I hope we’ll all read and use these updated guidelines.I also strongly encourage web site owners to become more familiar with accessibility issues for the web, and to insist that their web sites be created in accordance with WCAG + Samurai errata.To learn more about web accessibility, start with the W3C Introduction to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.For videos of people using assistive technology, and some scary quotes from ignorant people regarding how and even why disabled people use computers and the Web, check out this blog post from Jeremy Keith, which has a number of links, or just start with this amazing video of how enabling technology can be.