Translations of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

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List of translators working on this document

The following lists the people who have volunteered to translate the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 into specific languages. People are listed in the order they volunteered. Translators may wish to share work on writing and reviewing translations.

Brazilian Portuguese

• Claudia Dias has done this translation.

Catalan

• July 2001: a Catalan version is available from Mireia Ribera, Andreu Sule and Miquel Termens, professors of the Facultat de Biblioteconomia i Documentaci� of the Universitat de Barcelona.

Danish

• Lars Ballieu Christensen (Added 19 May 1999) Danish Translation (Added 27 October 1999)

Dutch

• Miente Bakker (Added Nov 13th 2000), Dutch Transation

Fran�ais / French

• Now available on the Internet.Gouv.FR site.
• French version of Techniques document (Added 7 June 2000).

German

• Rene Hartmann German Translation (Not yet verified).

Hebrew

• Nir Dagan (Added 13 May 1999)

Italian

• Annalisa Cichella , on behalf of the following volunteers (Added 8 September 1999). Italian translation available (added 26 Feb 2000).
  • Vanni Bertini <bertini@aib.it>
  • Michelangelo Bottura <mbottura@psibo.unibo.it>
  • Cristina Giavoni <cgiavo@TIN.IT>
  • Adelmo Taddei <testlab@mail.comune.genova.it>
• Pasquale Russo (Added 4 October 1999). Italian Translation.

Japanese

• Miki Ofuji , One Japanese translation. (Added 23 August 1999)
• Yasutaka Kato (Added 21 May 1999) Another Japanese Translation (Not yet verified). Japanese Translation of Techniques Document (Added 14 June 1999. Not yet verified). Japanese Translation of Fact Sheet (Added 28 June 1999. Not yet verified).
• Japanese translation by Ishikawa Jun (Added 23 July 2000).
• Recent Techniques by Miki Ofuji:
  • WCAG10-TECHS
  • WCAG10-CORE-TECHNIQUES
  • WCAG10-HTML-TECHNIQUES
  • WCAG10-CSS-TECHNIQUES

Korean

• Greg Shin (Added September 4th 2003). Korean translation.

Norwegian Nynorsk

• Karl Ove Hufthammer (Added 26 July 1999). Norwegian Nynorsk translation available. (Added 5 August).
• Another Norwegian (nynorsk) translation is available from Kristian Skauli and the Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Welfare.

Portuguese

• Leonel Morgado (Added 8 September 1999). Portuguese Translation (added 7 October). If document not available, try this alternate location for Portuguese translation.

Spanish

• Carlos Egea Garc�a and Alicia Sarabia S�nchez. (Added 31 May 2001) Spanish translation.
• April 9th 2001, SIDAR concluded the "Core Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0". Contact Emmanuelle Guti�rrez y Restrepo for details.
• February 20th 2001, Javier P�rez and Alan Chuter started working on "HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0".

Svenska / Swedish

• Johan Hjelm . The Swedish translation was completed on 26 May 1999. In addition, we now have, from Joakim Lofkvist, the list of checkpoints in table format and in list format.

Last updated: April 5th 2002, by danield@w3.org.