WAI Moves New Accessibility Guidelines Forward

From: james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To: Usability_Engineering@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 08:39:38 -0400
                  Hi,
This news indicates that the World Wide Web Consortium is almost ready to
put out the latest accessibility guidelines. This is just an FYI. The new
Section 508 regulations will mirror at least part of these. The IBM web
accessibility check list is in line with the new standards. No cause for
consternation.

To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@xxxxxx>
Dear WAI Interest Group Participants,
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group is excited
to announce the publication of WCAG 2.0 as a W3C Candidate Recommendation
 on 30 April. WCAG 2.0 explains how to make Web sites, applications, and
other content accessible to people with disabilities, and many elderly
users.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-WCAG20-20080430/
Candidate Recommendation (CR) is a major step in the W3C standards
development process; it signals that there is broad consensus in the
Working Group and among public reviewers on the technical content of WCAG
2.0. The
W3C Process stages are described in:
             How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C
Process

http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/w3c-process
The primary purpose of this CR stage is for developers and designers to "
test drive" WCAG 2.0 to demonstrate that WCAG 2.0 can be implemented in Web
sites. WAI encourages a broad range of Web sites and Web applications
to use WCAG 2.0 at this stage, and share implementation experience. For i
nformation on submitting your implementations, see:
             WCAG 2.0 Candidate Recommendation Implementation Information

http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/CR/
If you plan to provide implementations, please let us know your intention
s by *23 May 2008*.
Actual implementations are due by *30 June 2008*.
It is important to note that some WCAG 2.0 requirements are at risk; that
 is, they may not be included if there are not sufficient implementations
. Items at risk are listed under 93Items at Risk94 in:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-WCAG20-20080430/#status_risk
While the focus of this stage is to collect implementations, the comment
form and email address are still available from:
             Instructions for Commenting on WCAG 2.0 Documents

http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/comments/
The different WCAG 2.0 documents that the WCAG Working Group updated with
 this publication are introduced in:
             Overview of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
Documents

http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag20.php
A key tool for using WCAG 2.0 documents, which was previously called the
"Quick Reference", is:
             How to Meet WCAG 2.0: A customizable quick reference to WCAG
2.0 require
ments...

http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/
For more information about the Candidate Recommendation status of WCAG 2.
0 and the changes since the last publication, see:
             "Status of this Document" section of WCAG 2.0

http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-WCAG20-20080430/#status
WCAG 2.0 is part of a series of accessibility guidelines/standards develo
ped by WAI, which are listed in:
             WAI Guidelines and Techniques

http://www.w3.org/WAI/guid-tech.html
Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid cross-po
stings where possible.
Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you in advance for yo
ur help implementing WCAG 2.0.
Regards,
~Shawn Lawton Henry and Judy Brewer
On behalf of:
Loretta Guarino Reid, Co-chair of WCAG WG, and Computer Scientist, Google
 Inc.
Gregg Vanderheiden, Co-chair of WCAG WG, and Director of Trace R&D Center
, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Michael Cooper, W3C Team Contact for WCAG WG
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James D Homme, , Usability Engineering, Highmark Inc.,
james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx, 412-544-1810

"it is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis." --
Margaret Bonnano

Highmark internal only: Consider Usability Engineering On Your Next Project
or release. http://highwire.highmark.com/sites/iwov/hwt093/

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