Fwd: Invitation for ATAG 2.0 Implementation Testing

Congratulations, AUWG!  It has been a long road to get here, but we are 
now officially a Candidate Recommendation of the W3C.

jeanne

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Subject: Invitation for ATAG 2.0 Implementation Testing
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:07:46 -0600
From: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>
To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
CC: Jeanne Spellman <jeanne@w3.org>, jtreviranus@faculty.ocadu.ca

Dear WAI Interest Group Participants,

W3C WAI is pleased to announce the publication of Authoring Tool 
Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 as a W3C Candidate Recommendation. 
An updated Working Draft of the supporting Note Implementing ATAG 2.0 is 
also published.
	ATAG 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/ATAG20/
	Implementing ATAG 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/IMPLEMENTING-ATAG20/

ATAG defines how authoring tools should help developers produce 
accessible web content that conforms to Web Content Accessibility 
Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. ATAG also defines how to make authoring tools 
accessible so that people with disabilities can use them. Authoring 
tools include content management systems (CMS), learning management 
systems (LMS), HTML editors, blogs, wikis, social media, and development 
environments.
	ATAG Overview: http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/atag
	ATAG at a Glance: http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/atag-glance

Candidate Recommendation (CR) is a major step in the W3C standards 
development process; it signals that there is broad consensus in the 
Working Group and among public reviewers on the technical content of 
ATAG 2.0. The W3C Process stages are described in: How WAI Develops 
Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process at 
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/w3c-process>. For more information about 
the CR status of ATAG 2.0, including the "exit criteria" for completing 
CR and the features at risk, see: "Status of this Document" section of 
ATAG 2.0 at <http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-ATAG20-20131107/#status>

The purpose of the Candidate Recommendation stage is to ensure that ATAG 
2.0 can be implemented in the real world and to document that different 
types of authoring tools meet ATAG success criteria. *WAI encourages a 
broad range of authoring tools to use ATAG 2.0 at this stage*, and share 
implementation experience. During this CR stage, we are developing an 
implementation report listing tools that meet each ATAG success criteria.

*Would you like your tool listed in the ATAG 2.0 CR implementation 
report*? If you might be interested in sharing how your tool implements 
ATAG, please let us know by *7 December 2013* via e-mail to 
<public-atag2-comments@w3.org> or Jeanne Spellman <jeanne@w3.org>.

*A unique opportunity to get experience working with ATAG*: We are 
looking for accessibility specialists and specialists in specific 
authoring tools to help the ATAG Working Group with testing. If you 
might be interested in testing ATAG, please contact Jeanne Spellman 
<jeanne@w3.org>.

While the focus of this CR stage is to collect implementations, comments 
are still welcome at: <public-atag2-comments@w3.org>

About the URIs:
The first links above go to the latest version of the documents. The 
"dated" versions are:
* http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/CR-ATAG20-20131107/
* http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-IMPLEMENTING-ATAG20-20131107/
The difference between these links are explained in Referencing and 
Linking to WAI Guidelines and Technical Documents at: 
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/linking.html>

Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid 
cross-postings where possible.
Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you in advance for 
your help implementing ATAG 2.0.

Regards,
~Shawn Henry, WAI Outreach
Jutta Treviranus, AUWG Chair
Jeanne Spellman, AUWG W3C Staff Contact




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Shawn Lawton Henry
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
e-mail: shawn@w3.org
phone: +1.617.395.7664
about: http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/

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