Re: WCAG 2.1 update to Laws and Policies?

[- lots of people in CC :-)]

Hi Laura,

Just to clarify:

The laws and policies page only collects laws & policies of countries 
and their states/provinces/territories and not of other entities, like 
universities.

👋 Eric

On 21 Nov 2019, at 10:37, Laura Carlson wrote:

> 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
>> <jbrewer@w3.org>; Sarah Pulis <sarah@intopia.digital>
>> 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
>>> *S**l**a**c**k*:**_#accessibility-at-ibm_
>>> <slack://channel?team=T073LUXEU&id=C036P1CTN>
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>>> Conformance Report VPAT(r)at _able.ibm.com/request_
>>> <https://able.ibm.com/request/> pjenkins@us.ibm.com Accessibility
>>> 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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Eric Eggert
Web Accessibility Specialist
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Received on Thursday, 21 November 2019 11:48:41 UTC