Proposal to Republish WCAG 1.0 as a Superseded Recommendation (Wide Review until 2020-12-11)

Hello,

W3C Advisory Committee Representatives received a proposal to republish
the following W3C Recommendation as a Superseded Recommendation:

    Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
    W3C Recommendation 5 May 1999
    https://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505/

WCAG 1.0 was published in 1999, and written for the limited set of Web
technologies available at the time. WCAG 2.0 was published in 2008, and
was designed to be technology-neutral and more precisely testable. WCAG
2.1, published in 2018, expands provisions for mobile, cognitive and low
vision, and is the version W3C currently recommends using to make web
content, websites, and web applications accessible for people with
disabilities. Later versions will be available at the "latest version"
link near the top of the document.

The following text is proposed to be added to the Status of This Document:

    This specification is a Superseded Recommendation. A newer
specification, available from the "latest version" link, is recommended
for new adoptions in place of this specification.

The W3C wishes to communicate clearly the status of WCAG 1.0 to the
Web community. As part of ensuring that the community is aware of this
proposal, W3C invites public comments on the
public-review-announce@w3.org mailing list [1] through 04:59 UTC/GMT
on 2020-12-12 (23:59, Boston time on 2020-12-11).

If you work for a W3C Member
<https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List>, please coordinate your
comments with your Advisory Committee Representative. For example, you
may wish to make public comments and have your Advisory Committee
Representative refer to it from his or her formal review comments.

This Call for Review follows section 6.2.12.4 "Declaring a W3C 
Recommendation
Rescinded, Obsolete or Superseded" of the W3C Process Document:
      https://www.w3.org/2020/Process-20200915/#deactivation

and section 6.1.2.1 "Wide Review" of the W3C Process Document:
      https://www.w3.org/2020/Process-20200915/#wide-review

Thank you,

For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
Philippe Le Hegaret, Project Management Lead,
Judy Brewer, WAI Director, and
Michael Cooper, Accessibility Guidelines WG Team Contact;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications

[1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-review-announce/

Received on Friday, 13 November 2020 11:41:02 UTC