- From: Wendy A Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:28:19 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) [1] has been working on the Techniques For Web Content Accessibility Guidelines [2]. This document was last released as a W3C Note when the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0) [3] became a W3C Recommendation 5 May 1999. At that time the Techniques document was a single document. Over the course of the last few months we have divided that document into 3 separate chapters: Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 CSS Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Together, these documents describe the techniques that Web content authors (developers of Web sites) should use to conform to the WCAG 1.0 checkpoints. The WCAG WG believes this document is ready to supercede the previous Note that was published 5 May 1999 [4]. However, the group would like comments from WAI IG before moving forward. This document is published as a Note rather than going through the Recommendation track because it is non-normative (it is informative rather than normative). In other words, it provides information about how to conform to a normative document. In this case, the normative document is WCAG 1.0. We intend to update the techniques documents as new technologies are introduced and as new techniques evolve. For example over the course of the next several months the WCAG WG anticipates adding chapters for SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language), SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), and for a few non-W3C technologies. We also expect to add more HTML, CSS and scripting techniques to those that are already included in these techniques documents. We are also discussing clearer navigation mechanisms between the techniques documents, such as a site map and a navigation side-bar similar to the new W3C home page. However, there is the need to update the current Note with the advances we have made thus far. Primarily, we have corrected some errors that existed in the 5 May 1999 release and updated the Techniques per discussions in the Working Group that have occurred since the release of WCAG 1.0. We would appreciate any comments that you may have. This review period will end Tuesday, August 15, 2000. Please send review comments before that date to w3c-wai-gl@w3.org. Archives for this list are at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/. Thank you in advance, The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group [1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/ [2] http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WD-WCAG10-TECHS-20000727/ [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10 [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS -- wendy a chisholm world wide web consortium web accessibility initiative madison, wi usa tel: +1 608 663 6346 /--
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