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About "Managing the transition from WCAG 1.0 to 2.0"
This is a requirements outline for a suite of documents that will recommend strategies and best practices for organizations making the transition to WCAG 2.0 from WCAG 1.0.
Purpose
The purpose of the suite of documents is to:
- Reassure people that:
- work already done towards WCAG 1.0 will still be relevant in WCAG 2.0
- the fundamental issues of Web accessibility are basically the same
- Accompany the Comparison of WCAG 1.0 checkpoints to WCAG 2.0:
- the transitioning document describes the process of migration from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0 while the comparison document describes the differences between WCAG 1.0 and 2.0
- provide a clear indication and explanation/rationale of new issues in WCAG 2.0 and deleted issues from WCAG 1.0
- Explain how WCAG 2.0
differs from WCAG 1.0:
- it's more flexible, provides more detail than WCAG 1.0 and therefore may take more time to learn
- it's applicable to non W3C technologies
- conformance claims are based on Level Success Criteria not Priority Levels
- it's more testable and therefore necessarily has more jargon [not sure we want to say jargon or how to put this??]
- provide examples of differences between WCAG 1.0 and WCAG 2.0 checkpoints i.e. the colour issue and how it is different in WCAG 1.0 (Checkpoint 2.2) and WCAG 2.0 (Success criteria 1.4.1 and 1.4.3)
- Provide a methodology for moving from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0:
- describe a methodology for managing the transition from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0
- reference WAI documents and how they can be used in this process
- possibly providing a flow chart to illustrate each step in relation to the next
Goals
The goals of this document are to answer common questions such as:
- Where do I start?
- Is previous work I have done to make my site WCAG 1.0 compliant valid?
- Will I need to start work all over again?
- When can I start using WCAG 2.0?
- What baseline do I use?
- I conform with WCAG 1.0 Priority A, AA, or AAA what are the new additional requirements?
- What's the difference between conformance in WCAG 1.0 and WCAG 2.0 and how does my conformance claim have to change?
Objectives
To provide people who have been working towards WCAG 1.0 with the ability to:
- identify what needs to be done to move to WCAG 2.0 when, and by whom
- to benchmark their existing site against WCAG 2.0 and map out a project plan to help them meet the success criteria at chosen level.
- to identify, prioritise and plan work needed to meet the required WCAG 2.0 conformance level.
Audience
There are potentially two audiences for this resource:
- People who already have an understanding of WCAG 1.0 and want practical guidance on how to migrate websites to WCAG 2.0 including web developers, designers, programmers and content authors and project managers.
- Policy and decision makers in commercial organizations, government and nonprofit organizations such as managers, consultants, professional evaluators, and trainers.
Notes
- Size: possibly 2 documents.
- Part of WCAG 2.0 Documentation Suite
- The document needs to clarify it's relationship with the Comparison of WCAG 1.0 checkpoints to WCAG 2.0 document.
- [Open issue] do we explain the difference between WCAG 2.0 and 1.0 in the Overview or move to the transitioning suite?
- [Open issue] In "About baselines and WCAG 2.0" there is reference to a document being written called "A Guide for Policy Makers". Is this a document that could go here? It addresses the secind audience flagged.