Reminder: Deadline this week -- EOWG: Call for Review: WAI-ARIA Updated Working Drafts]

Active EOWG participants,

Please let me know your status on reviewing the WAI-ARIA documents described in the forwarded emails below:
1. I have reviewed WAI-ARIA and have no comments that might be appropriate for EOWG to submit.
2. You will review WAI-ARIA and let you know if I have any comments, by _____[date]
3. I will not be able to review WAI-ARIA in January. :(

Thanks,
~Shawn

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: EOWG: Call for Review: WAI-ARIA Updated Working Drafts
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:02:59 -0600
From: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>
To: EOWG (E-mail) <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>

EOWG,

Please review the WAI-ARIA documents from an Education and Outreach perspective.

If you have minor comments, typos, and such, please submit them yourself. If there are larger issues that you think EOWG should comment on as a group, please send those to the EOWG mailing list by 12 January so that we can discuss them.

Thanks,
~Shawn

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Call for Review: WAI-ARIA Updated Working Drafts [link correction]
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:54:00 -0600
From: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>
To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>

Dear WAI Interest Group Participants,

The Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) invites you to review the following updated Working Drafts published 15 December 2009:
* Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0
  http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/
* WAI-ARIA User Agent Implementation Guide
  http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-implementation/
* WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices
  http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices/

WAI-ARIA defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax (also known as AJAX), HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies.

The WAI-ARIA User Agent Implementation Guide provides guidance on how browsers and other user agents should expose WAI-ARIA features to platform accessibility APIs.

WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices describes how Web content developers can develop accessible rich internet applications using WAI-ARIA.

For an introduction to WAI-ARIA and links to related documents, please see:
* WAI-ARIA Overview http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria
* WAI-ARIA FAQ http://www.w3.org/WAI/aria/faq

Note about Working Draft Status:
WAI-ARIA was published as a Last Call Working Draft on 24 February 2009. Due to substantial changes in response to comments on that draft, PFWG decided to return to Working Draft stage to collect feedback on these changes. The PFWG expects to publish another Last Call Working Draft in the first quarter of 2010. The development stages are described in:
* How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process
  http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/w3c-process

WAI encourages you to review the updated WAI-ARIA documents and submit comments on any issues that you think could present a barrier to future adoption and implementation of WAI-ARIA. Please send comments per the instructions at:
  http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/comments/instructions
  *by 2 February 2010*

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

Regards,
~Shawn Henry and Judy Brewer, W3C WAI
On behalf of:
Janina Sajka, Chair of PFWG
Michael Cooper, W3C WAI Staff Contact for PFWG


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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/

Received on Wednesday, 13 January 2010 14:06:47 UTC