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Categories: W3C · Web · Web Accessibility · Web Standards
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that one topic I’m passionate about is making the Web accessible to people with disabilities. We all depend on the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) guidance via the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines to help us through the process.
Well… WCAG 2.0 has just advanced to the next stage of the standards development process, Candidate Recommendation. What they need you to do is to go use it.
This weekend, get together with your friends and convert all of your sites and your blogs to being WCAG 2.0 conformant. It won’t take that much work. When you’re done, write about how it went.
Have you converted yet? What do you think? Let’s make our sites accessible so everyone can use them and access them.
Categories: W3C · WCAG 2.0 · Web · Web Accessibility · Web Standards
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Categories: W3C · WCAG 2.0 · Web Accessibility · Web Standards
Well today the World Wide Web Consortium has just published the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 as a Last Call Working Draft. For those of us who’ve followed the development of WCAG 2.0, getting things to this stage is definitely a long time coming and we’re all very excited to see what the WCAG Working Group has come up with.
According to the WAI document “How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process…“, Last Call Working Draft means the following:
When a Working Group believes it has addressed all comments and technical requirements, it provides the complete document for community review and announces the Last Call. For example, see the WCAG 2.0 Last Call Announcement and Extention e-mail. (Note that after the Last Call comment period, it can take weeks or months for a Working Group to formally address all comments, document the resolutions, and make necessary changes.) If there are substantive changes, the technical report would go through another Last Call Working Draft before moving to the next stage.
According to the Call for Review, “The WCAG Working Group hopes that it has resolved all substantive issues with this draft, and looks forward to progressing to the next stages in completing WCAG 2.0.”
Sweet!
If you’re going to review WCAG 2.0, make sure that you also check out the following updated documents…
I’m going to be doing a detailed review of WCAG 2.0. I’ll be publishing my thoughts here as soon as I get time to sit down with the document.
Stay tuned…
Categories: W3C · WCAG 2.0 · Web · Web Accessibility · Web Standards
So Friday was another first for me, I was a guest on the KPFA radio show Pushing Limits in Berkeley, California. The show is about disability life.
That episode was covering Web accessibility. We had a really great discussion about things like Flash accessibility, CAPTCHA, and practical guidance for people making Web sites. It was a TON of fun.
Well… if you’re interested, you can now listen to the podcast of the show on their Web site. Let me know your thoughts. I think it went really well for me first time on the radio professionally.
Categories: My Life · Web · Web Accessibility
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If you haven’t heard, there has been the following update about the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0…
The WCAG Working Group received many constructive comments on the 17 May 2007 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. It will likely take 3 to 4 months to address all of the issues and prepare the next draft.
The Working Group will respond to each comment. Once the comments have been addressed, the Working Group plans to publish a second WCAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft to provide for review of the completed edits before moving on to the next stages. The next stages are described in How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process.
Categories: WCAG 2.0 · Web · Web Accessibility · Web Standards
Categories: Web Accessibility