Re: WCAG 2.1 update to Laws and Policies?

Okay. Thanks.

Laura

On 11/21/19, Eric Eggert <ee@w3.org> wrote:
> [- 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
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>>> 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>
>>>> Check out the new system for requesting an IBM product Accessibility
>>>> Conformance Report VPAT(r)at _able.ibm.com/request_
>>>> <https://able.ibm.com/request/> pjenkins@us.ibm.com Accessibility
>>>> Executive IBM Accessibility
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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/
>
>
>
> --
>
> Eric Eggert
> Web Accessibility Specialist
> Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
>


-- 
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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