http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20071104143301/http://www.w3.org/WAI/ WAI: Strategies, guidelines, resources to make the Web accessible to people with disabilities http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20071104143301/http://www.w3.org/WAI/Overview.html#x20071031c User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) provides guidance on designing Web browsers, media players, assistive technologies, and other 'user agents' to increase accessibility of the Web to people with disabilities. Plans for new work on a second generation of UAAG was published in the UAAG 2.0 Requirements Working Draft on 31 October 2007. WAI encourages you to review this document, submit any comments, and consider participating in the UAAG Working Group. See: Call for Review: UAAG 2.0 Requirements;UAAG Overview;How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process: Milestones and Opportunities to Contribute. Please send comments by 14 December 2007. (2007-10-31) http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20071104143301/http://www.w3.org/WAI/Overview.html#x20071031b 2007-10-31 "About WCAG 2.0 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines" is a presentation that covers the benefits of WCAG 2.0, shortcuts for using WCAG 2.0, how it differs from WCAG 1.0, and related topics. The presentation "slides" and extensive notes are designed for presenters to use for their own presentations. It's also available for anyone who wants to learn about WCAG 2.0. See Instructions for the "About WCAG 2.0" Presentation. (2007-10-31) http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20071104143301/http://www.w3.org/WAI/Overview.html#x20071031a 2007-10-31 The WCAG Working Group is completing resolution of comments on the latest WCAG 2.0 Public Working Draft documents. In November 2007 they plan to send responses on each comment, asking for reply from the reviewer. The Working Group plans to publish a second WCAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft in December 2007, before moving on to the next stages. See: WCAG 2 FAQ;WCAG 2.0 Overview;How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process: Milestones and Opportunities to Contribute. (2007-10-31) http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20071104143301/http://www.w3.org/WAI/Overview.html#x20071019a 2007-10-19 W3C WAI's work on accessibility of Ajax, DHTML, and other application technologies includes the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite (WAI-ARIA). Updated Working Drafts of WAI-ARIA documents were published 19 October 2007. See: Call for Review: WAI-ARIA updated Working Drafts;WAI-ARIA Suite Overview;How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process: Milestones and Opportunities to Contribute. Please send comments by 16 November 2007. (2007-10-19) http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20071104143301/http://www.w3.org/WAI/Overview.html#x20070816a 2007-08-16 Learn how the WCAG 2.0 Working Draft differs from WCAG 1.0, get shortcuts for using WCAG 2.0, and hear answers to common questions on W3C WAI's work in Shawn Henry's presentation to the Yahoo! User Interface Developer Network. Shawn also addresses the role of browsers and authoring tools in Web accessibility, and combining standards and usability techniques to optimize accessibility. See video with audio and slides, and text transcript. (2007-08-16) http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20071104143301/http://www.w3.org/WAI/Overview.html#x20070727a 2007-07-27 The WCAG Working Group received many constructive comments on the May 2007 WCAG 2.0 Working Drafts. They separated the comments into about 450 issues, ranging from minor edits to technical issues. In the first two weeks of July, the Working Group had eight half-day worksessions where they addressed about 150 of those issues and started work on another 100. See the "Update July 2007" section of the WCAG 2 FAQ for more... (2007-07-27) http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20071104143301/http://www.w3.org/WAI/Overview.html#x20070711a 2007-07-11 As part of the Mitsue-Links "Meet the Professionals" video series, Shawn Henry of W3C WAI talks with Kazuhito Kidachi about shared responsibilities between web site developers, browsers, and assistive technologies; the importance of different types of authoring tools supporting accessibility; how WCAG 2.0 and WAI-ARIA address the more difficult aspects of Web accessibility; WAI's outreach resources; and what led Shawn to accessibility years ago. See video with English audio and Japanese subtitles, and text transcripts. (2007-07-11) http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20071104143301/http://www.w3.org/WAI/Overview.html#x20070601a 2007-06-01 W3C WAI's work on accessibility of Ajax, DHTML, and other application technologies includes the Accessibility for Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) Suite. Updated Working Drafts of the WAI-ARIA Suite documents were published 1 June 2007. WAI encourages you to review these documents and submit any comments. See: Call for Review: WAI-ARIA Suite updated Working Drafts;WAI-ARIA Suite Overview;How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process: Milestones and Opportunities to Contribute. Please send comments by 6 July 2007. (2007-06-01) http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20071104143301/http://www.w3.org/WAI/Overview.html#x20070517a 2007-05-17 Updated Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) Working Draft documents were published 17 May 2007. These documents incorporate resolutions to comments from the 2006 Last Call Working Draft. WAI encourages you to review the WCAG 2.0 Working Draft and submit any new comments. Please see the additional information in: Call for Review: Updated WCAG 2.0 Documents, Overview of WCAG 2.0 Documents, WCAG 2 FAQ. Please send comments by 29 June 2007. (2007-05-17) http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20071104143301/http://www.w3.org/WAI/Overview.html#x20070507a 2007-05-07 Judy Brewer discusses WCAG 2.0 status and upcoming drafts with Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force member Jared Smith. See Interview with Judy Brewer. (2007-05-07) http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20071104143301/http://www.w3.org/WAI/Overview.html#x20070404a 2007-04-04 WCAG 2.0 primary points, current status, and Web accessibility resources from W3C WAI are topics covered in new handouts that you can use for conferences and presentations. The handouts direct readers to the updated WCAG 2 FAQ, How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process, and other documents. See Updates: WCAG 2.0 and WAI Resources Handouts e-mail,WAI Handouts and WAI Flyer page. (2007-04-04) http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20071104143301/http://www.w3.org/WAI/Overview.html#x20070323a 2007-03-23 Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) is a format to exchange, combine, and analyze results from different evaluation tools and checkers. EARL 1.0 Schema Last Call Working Draft and HTTP Vocabulary in RDF Working Draft were published 23 March 2007. See: Last Call Review: EARL 1.0 Schema Last Call Working Draft,Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) Overview,How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process: Milestones and Opportunities to Contribute. Please send comments by 20 April 2007. (2007-03-23) http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20071104143301/http://www.w3.org/WAI/Overview.html#x20061220b 2006-12-20 W3C WAI's work on accessibility of AJAX, DHTML, and other application technologies includes the Accessibility for Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) Suite. Updated Working Drafts of the WAI-ARIA Suite documents were published 20 December 2006. WAI encourages you to review these documents and submit any comments. See: WAI-ARIA Suite Overview, a new document;Call for Review: Updated Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) Working Drafts e-mail;How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process: Milestones and Opportunities to Contribute. Please send comments by 19 January 2006. (2006-12-20) http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20071104143301/http://www.w3.org/WAI/Overview.html#x20061219a 2006-12-20 The W3C Authorized Catalan Translation of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 is now available. See: Directrius per a l'accessibilitat al contingut web, versió 1.0. (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0); Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Overview; Policy for W3C Authorized Translations. This WCAG 1.0 Catalan translation is W3C's first Authorized Translation. (2006-12-20) http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20071104143301/http://www.w3.org/WAI/Overview.html#x20061207a 2006-12-07 An updated Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 Working Draft was published 7 December 2006. WAI encourages you to review this document and submit any comments. See: Call for Review: ATAG 2.0 Working Draft,Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) Overview. Please send comments by 11 January 2007. (2006-12-07) http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20071104143301/http://www.w3.org/WAI/Overview.html#x20061101a 2006-11-01 WAI gathered a few frequently asked questions (FAQ) about Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and provided answers in a WCAG 2 FAQ. There we address: When will WCAG 2.0 be done? What is the current status? When should I start using WCAG 2.0? (2006-11-01) http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20071104143301/http://www.w3.org/WAI/Overview.html#x20060927a 2006-09-27 Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) is a format to exchange, combine, and analyze results from different Web accessibility evaluation tools. EARL 1.0 Schema Working Draft was published 27 September 2006. See: Call for Review: Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0 Schema Working Draft,Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) Overview,How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process: Milestones and Opportunities to Contribute. Please send comments by 25 October 2006. (2006-09-27) http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20071104143301/http://www.w3.org/WAI/Overview.html#x20060926a 2006-09-26 W3C WAI's work on accessibility of AJAX, DHTML, and other rich Internet application technologies is published as First Public Working Drafts. WAI encourages review and comments. See: W3C Announces Roadmap for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) press release,Call for Review: Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) Working Drafts e-mail. For information on how Working Drafts are developed, see: How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process. (2006-09-26) http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20071104143301/http://www.w3.org/WAI/Overview.html#x20060720a 2006-07-20 W3C WAI has been appointed to the Advisory Committee for the revision of U.S. Section 255 guidelines and Section 508 standards, which include Web accessibility. WAI looks forward to continuing to coordinate with organizations around the world to develop harmonized standards for Web accessibility. Additional information is available in the U.S. Access Board article: Board Names Advisory Committee for 508 Standards Update. (2006-07-20) http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20071104143301/http://www.w3.org/WAI/Overview.html#x20060706a 2006-07-06 Shawn Henry discusses WCAG 2.0 with UK UPA president Giles Colborne: transcript and audio files. (2006-07-06) http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20071104143301/http://www.w3.org/WAI/Overview.html#x20060620a 2006-06-20 WCAG 2.0 Quick Reference lists the basic requirements of WCAG 2.0, which are the success criteria. For each success criteria, it lists techniques that tell you how to meet the requirements. You can customize the Quick Reference for the Web technologies you are using and for Levels 1, 2, or 3. See also: Overview of WCAG 2.0 Documents. (2006-06-20) http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20071104143301/http://www.w3.org/WAI/Overview.html#x20060530a 2006-05-30 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) Last Call Working Draft and supporting documents were published 27 April 2006. WAI encourages you to review these documents and submit any comments. See: Extending Deadline on WCAG 2.0 Last Call Review e-mail, and Overview of WCAG 2.0 Documents. Please send comments by 22 June 2006. 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