Candidate Recommendation Snapshot: WAI-Adapt: Symbols Module (Call for Wide Review)

WAI-Adapt: Symbols Module

https://www.w3.org/TR/2023/CR-adapt-symbols-20230105/

feedback due by: February 28, 2023

Published by
 Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group

Abstract

This specification provides web content authors a standard approach to support web users with various cognitive and learning disabilities who: 
 
  * Customarily communicate using symbolic languages generally known as Augmentative and Alternative Communications (AAC); 
  * Need more familiar icons (and other graphical symbols) in order to comprehend page content;  

The technology described in this specification is intended to be used to programmatically transform the appearance of typical web content including form controls, icons, and other user interface elements into a rendering incorporating an individual user's preferred AAC symbols. The W3C Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Symbols Registry specification [aac-registry] provides the required mappings between concept values used by content authors and the user's preferred AAC symbol set representation of that concept. 

This WAI-Adapt: Symbols Module is a component of the WAI-Adapt series introduced in the WAI-Adapt Explainer document [adapt].

Status of the Document

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. 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 as a Candidate Recommendation Snapshot using the Recommendation track.

Publication as a Candidate Recommendation does not imply endorsement by W3C and its Members. A Candidate Recommendation Snapshot has received wide review, is intended to gather implementation experience, and has commitments from Working Group members to royalty-free licensing for implementations.

This Candidate Recommendation is not expected to advance to Proposed Recommendation any earlier than 15 June 2023. 

To comment, please open a new issue in the WAI-Adapt GitHub repository, If it's not feasible for you to use GitHub, send comments in plain text e-mail to: public-adapt@w3.org. Please include your comments in the body of the message, not as a binary attachment which we will be unable to process. Please send comments by 28 February 2023. 

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This document is governed by the 2 November 2021 W3C Process Document.

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