Re: WCAG 2.1 update to Laws and Policies?

Hi Andrew and all,

The University of Minnesota's policy was updated to 2.1.
https://policy.umn.edu/it/webaccess

Kind Regards,
Laura

On 11/20/19, Andrew Arch <andrew@intopia.digital> wrote:
> Hi Mitchell,
>
> Any assistance to update the EU's EN 301 549 and any others you know have
> moved to WCAG 2.1 would be most appreciated.
>
> Regarding no WCAG 2.1 appearing in the filters, Eric advises that this is
> because no policy entries have been tagged as 2.1 yet. If we update the EN
> 301 549 entry to V3.1.1 and flag it as WCAG 2.1, then all should be good.
>
> Cheers,  Andrew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mitchell Evan <mitchell.evan@levelaccess.com>
> Sent: Thursday, 21 November 2019 4:49 AM
> To: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>; Phill Jenkins <pjenkins@us.ibm.com>; Andrew
> Arch <andrew@intopia.digital>
> Cc: w3c-wai-eo@w3.org; Mary Jo Mueller <maryjom@us.ibm.com>; Judy Brewer
> <jbrewer@w3.org>; Sarah Pulis <sarah@intopia.digital>
> Subject: RE: WCAG 2.1 update to Laws and Policies?
>
> Hi Shawn and Phill,
>
> I'll offer to contribute some content updates for Laws and Policies.
> Specifically, I can submit pull requests with examples of EN 301 549 and
> WCAG 2.1 adoption for web and non-web ICT, which I've researched for our
> clients and for my upcoming CSUN presentation.
>
> I don't know how to add WCAG 2.1 as a search option, but I wouldn't worry if
> WCAG 2.0 searches yield WCAG 2.1 examples in country pages for a while. This
> would be technically accurate because 2.1 is a superset of 2.0.
>
> Mitchell Evan
> Lead Accessibility Architect
> Level Access
> 415.802.1914 (Office)
> 510.375.6104 (Cell)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 8:26 AM
> To: Phill Jenkins <pjenkins@us.ibm.com>; Andrew Arch
> <andrew@intopia.digital>
> Cc: w3c-wai-eo@w3.org; Mary Jo Mueller <maryjom@us.ibm.com>; Judy Brewer
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> Subject: Re: WCAG 2.1 update to Laws and Policies?
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> Hi Phill,
>
> EOWG fully intends to update it. The EOWG participants who were tasked with
> leading the update work have not been able to make time for it.
>
> We will work on getting other(s) to update it.
>
> Best,
> ~Shawn & for Brent & Sharron
> <http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/>
>
>
> On 11/19/2019 10:02 AM, Phill Jenkins wrote:
>> _https://www.w3.org/WAI/policies/_
>>
>> Web Accessibility Laws & Policies
>> [last] Updated 21 March 2018.
>>
>> Is there a plan or expectation to update the Laws & Policies information
>> for WCAG 2.1 adoption?
>> Currently there seems to be *no* references mentioning WCAG 2.1
>> conformance.
>>
>> For example, EN 301 549 has been update to now reference WCAG 2.1 EN
>> 301 549 V2.1.2 (2018-08)
>> _https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_en/301500_301599/301549/02.01.02_60
>> /en_301549v020102p.pdf_
>> ___________
>> Regards,
>> Phill Jenkins
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>> Conformance Report VPAT(r)at _able.ibm.com/request_
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>> Executive IBM Accessibility
>>
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Laura L. Carlson
Information Technology Systems and Services
University of Minnesota Duluth
Duluth, MN U.S.A. 55812-3009
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/

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