Call for Review: WCAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft

Dear All,

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group invites 
you to review the second WCAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft published 
on 11 December 2007. WCAG 2.0 explains how to make Web sites, 
applications, and other content accessible to people with 
disabilities. Please submit any comments on the following document by 
1 February 2008:
      http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20071211/

This second WCAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft is provided for public 
review of the document now that it has all resolutions from previous 
comments incorporated. The WCAG Working Group hopes that it has 
resolved all substantive issues with this draft, and looks forward to 
progressing to the next stages in completing WCAG 2.0. The next 
stages are described in:
      How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process
      http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/w3c-process

The different WCAG 2.0 documents that the WCAG Working Group updated 
are introduced in:
      Overview of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Documents
      http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag20.php

A key tool for reviewing and working with WCAG 2.0 documents is:
      WCAG 2.0 Quick Reference
      http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/

For a summary of issues, revisions, and rationales on WCAG 2.0 
Working Drafts -- such as coverage of cognitive disabilities and 
testability -- see:
      Issues and Changes to WCAG 2.0
      http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2007/12/change-summary

Note that the navigation between the documents is changed in these 
drafts. Now each topic in "Understanding WCAG 2.0" and "Techniques 
for WCAG 2.0" is in a separate small Web page.

When you review the updated documents, if there are any significant 
additional issues that you feel could present a barrier to adoption 
and implementation of WCAG 2.0, please submit comments by:
      Friday 1 February 2008
Please use the comment form or the email address provided in:
      Instructions for Commenting on WCAG 2.0 Documents
      http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/comments/
Comments in support of progressing WCAG 2.0 to the next stages are 
also welcome.

WCAG 2.0 is part of a series of accessibility guidelines/standards 
developed by WAI, which are listed in:
      WAI Guidelines and Techniques
      http://www.w3.org/WAI/guid-tech.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 review of WCAG 2.0 documents.

On behalf of:
   Loretta Guarino Reid, Co-chair of WCAG WG, and Computer Scientist, 
Google Inc.
   Gregg Vanderheiden, Co-chair of WCAG WG, and Director of Trace R&D 
Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
   Michael Cooper, W3C Team Contact for WCAG WG

Regards,
   Shawn Henry, Outreach Coordinator, Web Accessibility Initiative, W3C
   Judy Brewer, Director, Web Accessibility Initiative, W3C


-- 
Judy Brewer    +1.617.258.9741    http://www.w3.org/WAI
Director, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
MIT/CSAIL Building 32-G526
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA,  02139,  USA
--
Judy Brewer    +1.617.258.9741    http://www.w3.org/WAI
Director, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
MIT/CSAIL Building 32-G526
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA,  02139,  USA

Received on Tuesday, 11 December 2007 22:17:15 UTC