FPWD: Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities

Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities

https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/WD-coga-usable-20181211/

Abstract

This document is for people who make Web content (Web pages) and Web applications. It give advice on how to make content useable for people with learning and cognitive disabilities. 

This document has content about:
 
  * About people with learning and cognitive disabilities, 
  * user needs, 
  * user testing, 
  * design requirements(ways) make content usable, 
  * advice for policy makers.  

This document builds on the Cognitive Accessibility Gap Analysis and Roadmap, Cognitive Accessibility User Research [coga-user-research] and Cognitive Accessibility Issue Papers [coga-issue-papers] to evaluate where user needs remain to be met in technologies and accessibility guidelines.

Status of the 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/.

This document was published by the Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group and the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group as a First Public Working Draft. This document is for people who make Web content (Web pages) and Web applications. It gives advice on how to make websites and applications that are friendly for people with cognitive impairments by providing guidance for your designs, and design process. 

To comment, file an issue in the W3C coga GitHub repository. If this is not feasible, send email to public-cognitive-a11y-tf@w3.org (subscribe, archives). Comments are requested by 14 January 2019. In-progress updates to the document may be viewed in the publicly visible editors' draft.

Publication as a First Public Working Draft 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 groups operating under the W3C Patent Policy. The groups do not expect this document to become a W3C Recommendation. W3C maintains a public list of any patent disclosures (Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group) and a public list of any patent disclosures (Accessibility Guidelines Working Group) made in connection with the deliverables of each group; these pages also include 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.

Received on Tuesday, 11 December 2018 07:47:14 UTC