Re: Superseding WCAG 1.0

LGTM

On 23/08/2018 11:53, Alastair Campbell wrote:
> Hi Andrew, Michael,
> 
> I was going to draft an email about superseding WCAG 1.0, I didn’t 
> manage to write down who I was writing it to, I’m assuming it is a 
> general “to whom it may concern” type thing?
> 
> The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group is announcing that the 1^st 
> version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG1) will be 
> marked as “superseded” by the end of the year.
> 
> Almost 20 years ago the first version of the Web Content Accessibility 
> Guidelines [1] were published, providing much needed guidance on how to 
> make the web a more accessible place. Almost 10 years ago WCAG 2.0 was 
> published, marking a significant update in the approach of the 
> guidelines and how designers and developers could use them. This year 
> WCAG 2.1 was published [2], adding new guidance in several areas.
> 
> Some people may already have assumed that WCAG 1.0 was obsolete, but in 
> W3C terminology marking it as “superseded” means that a newer version 
> exists which the W3C recommends for new adoption. If you are currently 
> following WCAG 1.0 we recommend moving to WCAG 2.1, but conformance 
> statements for the superseded version will still be valid.
> 
> If you have any concerns about WCAG 1.0 being superseded please get in 
> touch, either to the working group chairs (group-ag-chairs@w3.org 
> <mailto:group-ag-chairs@w3.org>) or for a publicly viewable comment the 
> working group (w3c-wai-gl@w3.org <mailto:w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>).
> 
> 1] https://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/
> 
> 2] https://www.w3.org/blog/2018/06/wcag21-rec/
> 
> It was really hard not to be sarcastic… is that ok?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> -Alastair
> 
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