Re: Superseding WCAG 1.0

Yep, I like it too.

/Denis


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On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 7:02 AM Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
wrote:

> 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 marked as “superseded” by the end of the year.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 W3C terminology marking it as “superseded” means that a newer version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 statements for the superseded version will still be valid.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 If you have any concerns about WCAG 1.0 being superseded please get in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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