- From: Jan Richards <jan.richards@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:06:44 -0400
- To: "List (WAI-AUWG)" <w3c-wai-au@w3.org>
Jutta has asked that all members of the AUWG review the new WCAG
document and be ready with any comments by the next AUWG conf. call on
July 25th (comments are due Aug. 2).
Cheers,
Jan
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Request for Review: 30 June 2005 Working Draft of Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
Resent-Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 16:11:58 +0000
Resent-From: w3c-wai-au@w3.org
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 12:11:38 -0400
From: Wendy Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>
To: WAI AUWG <w3c-wai-au@w3.org>
Dear ATAG WG,
Note: I will be out of the office until 13 July, any replies to this
message should be
sent to public-comments-wcag20@w3.org. If you prefer to send a private
response
to me, note that I will not be able to respond until after 13 July.
Thank you for your comments on a previous draft of the Web Content
Accessibility
Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0). A new Working Draft of WCAG 2.0 as well as
five supporting documents were published 30 June 2005.
Since the previous public Working Draft of WCAG 2.0, published on 19
November
2004, the WCAG WG has addressed at least 300 public comments and is still
addressing additional comments. A list of issues related to comments you
have
made is available at:
<http://trace.wisc.edu/bugzilla_wcag/buglist.cgi?keywords=AUWG>
Please note that we are in the process of updating the issues list and
expect
it to be completely up-to-date by 15 July.
If you follow the above link, the issues will be displayed in a table with
links
to each issue. If you prefer to see the contents of each issue as a single
report,
please select the "Long Format" button at the end of the list of issues.
If you
have any questions about the issues list interface, please contact Ben
Caldwell
at: caldwell@trace.wisc.edu.
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) encourages
you to comment on the latest drafts to help ensure we have adequately
addressed
your comments - keeping in mind that some comments we have not yet been
addressed.
If you find that we haven't addressed a comment yet, please propose a
solution for us to
consider. Please send comments to the public comments mailing list by 2
August 2005:
public-comments-wcag20@w3.org
A good place to start a review of WCAG 2.0 is
with the "Introduction to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
Working Draft Documents." The Introduction illustrates the relationships
between
WCAG 2.0 and the supporting documents, and links to the current version of
each
document. The Introduction is available at:
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag20>
The documents published on 30 June 2005:
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WCAG20-20050630/>
- Web Content Accessibility Guideline 2.0 Checklist
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WCAG20-20050630/checklist> - Table
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WCAG20-20050630/checklist-linear> -
Linear
- General Techniques for WCAG 2.0
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WCAG20-GENERAL-20050630/>
Note: No substantial changes were made to the following documents
due to the focus on addressing comments received on Guidelines and Success
Criteria. Issues raised with previous drafts will be handled in the next
publication.
- HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20050630/>
- CSS Techniques for WCAG 2.0
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WCAG20-CSS-TECHS-20050630/>
- Client-side Scripting Techniques for WCAG 2.0:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WCAG20-SCRIPT-TECHS-20050630/>
The Working Group is interested in discussion of the following questions.
1. In general, is this WCAG 2.0 Working Draft easy to understand?
Please identify phrases that are difficult to understand. Please
suggest wording for the Working Group to consider.
2. Instead of assuming that end-users have browsers that conform to the
User Agent Accessibility Guidelines as we did in the 19 November 2004
Working Draft, this draft relies on authors declaring a "baseline."
Baselines may also be set by company policy, customers or governments.
While we
have not yet provided all of the support materials needed to use baseline,
we have worked on the definitions and incorporated it into some success
criteria. The WCAG WG is interested in feedback about the baseline
approach that will allow authors the flexibility to use new technologies
while providing information about making good choices for which
technologies
are most widely available and accessible.
3. In WCAG 1.0, valid content was a Priority 2 requirement. In previous
Working Drafts of WCAG 2.0, valid content was a Level 1 Success Criterion.
The WCAG WG has recently considered proposals to move the validity
success criterion to Level 2 and to consider an alternative requirement
for Level 1.
Due to issues raised during a spirited discussion, no Success Criteria
have been included in this
Working Draft. Instead, the draft links to a summary of the issues,
background,
and discussion questions. Please read and comment on the summary at:
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2005/06/validity-accessibility.html>
4. This is the first public Working Draft of WCAG 2.0 Checklist. While we
intend
to provide a printable version and group Success Criteria by Level,
is the information presented clearly? Is this format an effective tool
to help
determine conformance to WCAG 2.0? Please use the WCAG 2.0 Checklist
to a review a site and provide feedback about the usefulness of the
Checklist
for a review process.
5. There is an ongoing discussion about how many levels of conformance
should be provided in WCAG 2.0. Primarily, the discussion centers
around the
question of 2 levels or 3 levels. The draft links to a summary of the
issues,
background, and discussion questions. Please read and comment on the
summary at:
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2005/06/conformance-issues-overview.html>
Please send your comments by 2 August 2005 to:
public-comments-wcag20@w3.org
The archive for that mailing list is available at:
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/>
When sending comments, please:
- State the issue as clearly and simply as possible.
- Provide links to specific examples or references.
- If possible, suggest solutions.
- Remember that the Working Group welcomes volunteers
to help with the work.
When waiting for responses to comments:
- You can track your issue in the open issues list
<http://trace.wisc.edu/bugzilla_wcag/condensedreports/wcag2_issues.php>
- Follow up on the mailing list if you don't find your issue in the
open issues list.
Please let us know if you have any questions. Additional information on the
Working Group is available at:
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/>
Note:
The feedback we receive on this draft will help us determine how close we
are to
publishing a Last Call Working Draft. Once we enter Last Call it will take
several months to progress through the W3C Recommendation Track.
Until WCAG 2.0 becomes a W3C Recommendation, WCAG 1.0 will continue to
be the current and stable document to use. If your site currently
conforms to
WCAG 1.0, be assured that conformance to WCAG 2.0 will not require a
complete redesign of your site but it will likely require some tweaks.
Note:
This message may be circulated to other lists, avoiding cross-postings
where possible.
Thank you in advance for your comments,
Wendy Chisholm - W3C Team Contact for WCAG WG
Gregg Vanderheiden - Co-chair of WCAG WG, and Director of Trace R&D Center
John Slatin - Co-chair of WCAG WG, and Director of the Accessibility
Institute at UT
Judy Brewer - Director, Web Accessibility Initiative, W3C
--
Jan Richards, M.Sc.
User Interface Design Specialist
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC)
Faculty of Information Studies
University of Toronto
Email: jan.richards@utoronto.ca
Web: http://jan.atrc.utoronto.ca
Phone: 416-946-7060
Fax: 416-971-2896
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