Re: Fw: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 is a W3C Proposed Recommendation (Call for Review)

I'm sure Avneesh just sent this FYI but I thought I should point out that
only AC reps can actually vote so you don't try and get frustrated if
you're not an AC rep.

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On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 5:45 AM, Avneesh Singh <avneesh.sg@gmail.com> wrote:

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> -----Original Message----- From: Xueyuan
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 15:17
> To: w3c-ac-forum@w3.org
> Cc: chairs@w3.org
> Subject: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 is a W3C Proposed
> Recommendation (Call for Review)
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> Dear Advisory Committee representative,
> Chairs,
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> W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Web Content Accessibility
> Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 to Proposed Recommendation:
>   https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/PR-WCAG21-20180424/
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> The approval and publication are in response to this transition request:
>   https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/chairs/2018AprJun/0011.html
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> Please review the specification and indicate whether you endorse it as a
> W3C Recommendation or object to its advancement by completing the
> following questionnaire:
>   https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/2018-04_PR_WCAG21/
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> Additional details about the review are available in the questionnaire.
> The deadline for responses is: 22 May 2018.
>
> More information about the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group is
> available on the group home page:
>   https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/
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> If you should have any questions or need further information, please
> contact Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>, Accessibility Guidelines Team
> Contact.
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> This Call for Review follows section 6.5 of the W3C Process Document:
>   https://www.w3.org/2018/Process-20180201/#rec-pr
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> Thank you,
>
> For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
> Philippe Le Hégaret, Project Management Lead,
> Michael Cooper, Accessibility Guidelines Team Contact;
> Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications
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> Quoting from
> Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1
> W3C Proposed Recommendation 24 April 2018
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> This version:
>   https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/PR-WCAG21-20180424/
> Latest published version:
>   https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/
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> Abstract:
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> Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 covers a wide range of
> recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Following these
> guidelines will make content more accessible to a wider range of people
> with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and
> hearing loss, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity,
> and combinations of these, and some accommodation for learning
> disabilities and cognitive limitations; but will not address every user
> need for people with these disabilities. These guidelines address
> accessibility of web content on desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile
> devices. Following these guidelines will also often make Web content
> more usable to users in general.
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> WCAG 2.1 success criteria are written as testable statements that are
> not technology-specific. Guidance about satisfying the success criteria
> in specific technologies, as well as general information about
> interpreting the success criteria, is provided in separate documents.
> See Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Overview for an
> introduction and links to WCAG technical and educational material.
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> WCAG 2.1 extends Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 [WCAG20],
> which was published as a W3C Recommendation December 2008. Content that
> conforms to WCAG 2.1 also conforms to WCAG 2.0, and therefore to
> policies that reference WCAG 2.0.
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> Until WCAG 2.1 advances to W3C Recommendation, the current and
> referenceable document is Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
> [WCAG20], published as a W3C Recommendation December 2008.
>
> Status of This Document:
>
> This section describes the status of this document at the time of its
> publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of
> current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical
> report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at
> https://www.w3.org/TR/.
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> This is a Proposed Recommendation of WCAG 2.1 by the Accessibility
> Guidelines Working Group. WCAG 2.1 was published as a Candidate
> Recommendation on 30 January 2018. Since then the Working Group has
> collected implementation experience for the guidelines. No items at risk
> were removed, but some success criteria were renamed or moved in a
> manner that does not impact conformance. A history of changes to WCAG
> 2.1 is available in the appendix.
>
> The primary purpose of the Proposed Recommendation is to collect
> feedback from the Advisory Committee. W3C Advisory Committee Members are
> invited to send formal review comments to the W3C Team until 22 May
> 2018. Comments should be made using the Call for Review WBS form. To
> comment, aside from Advisory Committee comments, file an issue in the
> W3C WCAG 2.1 GitHub repository. The Working Group requests that public
> comments be filed as new issues, one issue per discrete comment. It is
> free to create a GitHub account to file issues. If filing issues in
> GitHub is not feasible, send email to public-agwg-comments@w3.org
> (comment archive). Comments are requested by 22 May 2018. In-progress
> updates to the document may be viewed in the publicly visible editors'
> draft.
>
> This document was published by the Accessibility Guidelines Working
> Group as a Proposed Recommendation. This document is intended to become
> a W3C Recommendation. The W3C Membership and other interested parties
> are invited to review the document and send comments to
> public-comments-wcag20@w3.org (subscribe, archives) through 22 May 2018.
> Advisory Committee Representatives should consult their WBS
> questionnaires. Note that substantive technical comments were expected
> during the Candidate Recommendation review period that ended 30 March 2018.
>
> Please see the Working Group's implementation report.
>
> Publication as a Proposed Recommendation does not imply endorsement by
> the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated,
> replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is
> inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.
>
> This document was produced by a group operating under the W3C Patent
> Policy. W3C maintains a public list of any patent disclosures made in
> connection with the deliverables of the group; that page also includes
> instructions for disclosing a patent. An individual who has actual
> knowledge of a patent which the individual believes contains Essential
> Claim(s) must disclose the information in accordance with section 6 of
> the W3C Patent Policy.
>
> This document is governed by the 1 February 2018 W3C Process Document.
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