FW: Usability improvements to the TAG Accessibility Screener

Dear APA colleagues,

Both the TAG and APA have been working on improvements to the review process
- mainly they're about making it easier for proposal/spec authors to request
review. In APA, we're also working to make it easier for people to carry out
reviews (more on that to come).

I posted the email below to the W3C's Advisory Committee list yesterday, and
realised I should've probably cross-posted here - this is to announce the
availability of the HTML-based TAG accessibility screener to AC reps, so
they can pass it on to their respective teams.

We've talked about the screener before, and most of you won't need to use it
directly - but we may start receiving the output from it as tracking issues,
so here's some info on it.

Best regards,


Matthew

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Atkinson <m.atkinson@samsung.com> 
Sent: 11 September 2025 21:03
To: 'w3c-ac-forum@w3.org' <w3c-ac-forum@w3.org>
Subject: Usability improvements to the TAG Accessibility Screener

Dear Colleagues,

The TAG has been working on some UX improvements to the review process for
authors of design proposals, and specs. TAG's accessibility questionnaire
has been updated to have an HTML interface, to make it easier for you to
fill in. It's also been renamed to 'accessibility screener', to clarify its
purpose.

You can find it at: <https://w3ctag.github.io/accessibility-screener/>

The GitHub repo is: <https://github.com/w3ctag/accessibility-screener>

These are the same questions that the last few iterations of the TAG and
contributors developed. The biggest change here is the new UI, along with a
few clarifications to the text. We hope this will save you and your teams'
time when requesting reviews. Many thanks to the former TAG members and
contributors who got this started, and created the questions. The TAG would
also like to thank Ananya Kittane Yogananda (a teammate of mine who's not on
the TAG) who did the development work on the UI change.

There are some refinements we're planning to the workflow, and APA WG is
working on a range of similar and related improvements to its implementation
of the review process, and the guidance provided to spec authors, too. More
on those soon, and in due course :-).

Feedback on the accessibility screener is of course welcome - ideally via
issues on the repo linked above.

We're looking forward to reading your and your teams' screener results as
part of future design reviews, and to helping out with any questions you may
have about it.

best regards,


Matthew

Matthew Tylee Atkinson
Head of Web Standards
Samsung R&D Institute UK
Samsung Electronics
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Received on Friday, 12 September 2025 17:01:49 UTC