Re: Superseding WCAG 1.0

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On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 6:53 AM Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
wrote:

> Hi Andrew, Michael,
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> 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?
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> The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group is announcing that the 1st
> version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG1) will be marked
> as “superseded” by the end of the year.
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> 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.
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> 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 W3C terminology marking it as “superseded” means that a newer version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 statements for the superseded version will still be valid.
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> If you have any concerns about WCAG 1.0 being superseded please get in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) or for
> a publicly viewable comment the working group (w3c-wai-gl@w3.org).
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> 1] https://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/
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> 2] https://www.w3.org/blog/2018/06/wcag21-rec/
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> It was really hard not to be sarcastic… is that ok?
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> Kind regards,
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> -Alastair
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