The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has just put out an important update on their Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.
As of the end of March 2007, the Working Group has addressed most of the 900 comments from the Last Call Review Period. The Working Group is currently working on:
- Discussing open comments and issues, and integrating resolutions
- Developing additional techniques for how to meet the guidelines
- Simplifying the language
- Improving the usability of the WCAG 2.0 documents
The Working Group plans to finish addressing most of the issues and provide updated Public Working Drafts of WCAG 2.0 and the supporting documents in late April or May 2007. This will provide an opportunity to review how previous comments have been addressed.
After that, the Working Group expects to make additional minor edits and address any new comments, then publish a second WCAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft for review of the completed edits before moving on to the next stages.
WCAG 2.0 will be an important tool for us to use to make better Web sites. It is something thats important to pay attention to.
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