Esse vanno comunque distinte dalle altre linee guida elaborate dalla WAI (Consorzio Mondiale del Web/Web Accessibility Initiative), come le Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG), versione 1.0, e le User Agent Accessibility Guidelines.
They are referred to here as the Guidelines. This terminology is used to distinguish these guidelines from others that the World Wide Web Consortium/Web Accessibility Initiative has developed such as Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) version 1.0 and User Agent Accessibility Guidelines.