Re: Call for Review: Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.0 First Public Working Draft

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On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org> wrote:

> congratulations everyone!
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> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Call for Review: Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules
> Format  1.0 First Public Working Draft
> Resent-Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 13:54:33 +0000
> Resent-From: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 09:54:23 -0400
> From: Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org>
> To: WAI IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> CC: Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>, Joshue O Connor <
> josh@interaccess.ie>, Wilco Fiers <wilco.fiers@deque.com>, Mary Jo
> Mueller <maryjom@us.ibm.com>, Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>
>
> Dear WAI Interest Group Participants,
>
> The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AG WG) has published a First
> Public Working Draft of Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules
> Format 1.0:
> https://www.w3.org/TR/act-rules-format/
>
> *Overview*
>
> The Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.0 specifies a
> common format for accessibility test rules, and how to write test
> procedures for quality assurance. It facilitates harmonization of
> accessibility testing approaches, and helps organizations to better
> document and share their testing methods. It primarily addresses developers
> of automated and semi-automated evaluation tools, but also supports manual
> evaluation procedures.
>
> *Comments*
>
> To comment, the Working Group requests input be filed as GitHub issues at:
>  https://github.com/w3c/wcag-act/issues/
>
> Please create new issues for your comments, putting each separate topic
> into a separate issue. If it is not feasible to file issues in this tool,
> you can also submit comments by email to:
>  public-wcag-act-comments@w3.org
>
> The Working Group requests comments on this draft be filed by 5 May 2017.
> The Working Group plans to publish updated Working Drafts frequently over
> the course of 2017 to incorporate input received and continued review of
> proposals.
>
> *About the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group*
>
> The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group is the new name for the former
> Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group. This name reflects a
> more generic focus in order to bring together and find synergies among work
> that formerly took place in separate Working Groups. More information about
> the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group is available from its home page:
>  https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/
>
> In addition to public comments, the Working Group relies on work from its
> dedicated participants. If you have availability and expertise to
> contribute to this effort, you might consider joining the group:
>  https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/participation
>
> *URI*
>
> The first URI above goes to the latest version of the document. The
> "dated" version of this draft is: <https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/WD
> -act-rules-format-1.0-20170406> The difference between these URIs are
> explained in Referencing and Linking to WAI Guidelines and Technical
> Documents at: <https://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/linking.html>
>
> Regards,
> Andrew Kirkpatrick, Accessibility Guidelines WG Chair,
> Joshue O Connor, Accessibility Guidelines WG Chair,
> Wilco Fiers, ACT TF Facilitator,
> Mary Jo Mueller, ACT TF Facilitator,
> Michael Cooper, Accessibility Guidelines WG W3C Staff Contact,
> Shadi Abou-Zahra, ACT TF W3C Staff Contact
>
>
>
> --
> Shadi Abou-Zahra - http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/
> Accessibility Strategy and Technology Specialist
> Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
> World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
>
>


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*Wilco Fiers*
Senior Accessibility Engineer - Co-facilitator WCAG-ACT - Chair Auto-WCAG