FYI: current activities of JIS working group

Dear members of W3C-WAI-gl mailing list,
CC: Martin Duerst,
CC: JIS WG mailing list.

Good morning.  I am Takayuki Watanabe.

I think it is a good opportunity for me to introduce the activities of
"Web JIS" (Japan Industrial Standard) working group 
before discussing public comments submitted by JIS [1].

As you may know, JIS X 8341-3:2004 [2], the first JIS in Web
accessibility, was published in 20 June 2004. 
Outline of this JIS was presented at CSUN 2004 [3].

The working group that developed JIS X 8341-3 was dissolved in fiscal
year 2003 and a new working group was organized this year.
This working group (Web Accessibility International Standards Research
Working Group), which chair is I, has two objectives.  They are:

(1) international standard harmonization with W3C and other countries.

This activity is carried out based on JIS X 8341-3.
As JIS WG wants WCAG 2.0 to be internationally applicable guidelines,
(i) we made a Japanese translation of WCAG 2.0 working draft [4] to
raise interest in Japan and (ii) submitted public comments [1] to WCAG. 
We think it is a good thing that a WCAG 2.0 that considers
international usage and fits in a framework of ISO/IEC Guide 71 [5] is
submitted to ISO. 

(2) national promotion of JIS X 8341-3.


Please don't hesitate to ask me if you have any questions.


[1] http://tinyurl.com/4qf87
[2] JIS X 8341-3:2004 is sold at JSA's web store:
http://www.webstore.jsa.or.jp/webstore/Com/FlowControl.jsp?lang=en&bunsyoId=JIS+X+8341-3%3A2004&dantaiCd=JIS&status=1&pageNo=0
[3] http://www.comm.twcu.ac.jp/~nabe/data/JIS-WAI/
[4] http://www.jsa.or.jp/domestic/instac/W3C-WCAG/WCAG20-ja.html
[5] http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=33987

Best Regards,
--
Takayuki Watanabe            <nabe@lab.twcu.ac.jp>
member of both WCAG WG and JIS WG :-)

Received on Thursday, 7 October 2004 11:39:25 UTC