Re: ITI VPATs and upcoming WCAG 2.2

thanks Mary Jo!

On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 at 16:56, Mary Jo Mueller <maryjom@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
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> The work of updating the VPAT is complete, but it will not be available on
> the ITI website until 30 November. It has taken their web team some time to
> get this task scheduled into their workstream – especially with the US
> Thanksgiving holiday. In the meantime, I can send the files directly to you.
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> Best regards,
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> Mary Jo Mueller
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> IBM Accessibility Standards Program Manager
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> *From: *Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
> *Date: *Monday, November 13, 2023 at 9:16 AM
> *To: *Mary Jo Mueller <maryjom@us.ibm.com>
> *Cc: *Mike Gifford <mike.gifford@civicactions.com>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org <
> w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>, Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
> *Subject: *[EXTERNAL] Re: ITI VPATs and upcoming WCAG 2.2
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> Hi Mary Jo, any update on the timeline for WCAG 2. 2 VPAT? On Wed, 9 Aug
> 2023 at 17: 02, Mary Jo Mueller <maryjom@ us. ibm. com> wrote: Yes Mike,
> the ITI page you linked is exactly where the VPAT updates will land, once
> complete. Best regards,
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> Hi Mary Jo, any update on the timeline for WCAG 2.2 VPAT?
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> On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 at 17:02, Mary Jo Mueller <maryjom@us.ibm.com> wrote:
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> Yes Mike, the ITI page you linked is exactly where the VPAT updates will
> land, once complete.
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> Best regards,
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> Mary Jo Mueller
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> IBM Accessibility Standards Program Manager
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> *From: *Mike Gifford <mike.gifford@civicactions.com>
> *Date: *Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 11:16 AM
> *To: *w3c-wai-gl@w3.org <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>, Mary Jo Mueller <
> maryjom@us.ibm.com>, Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
> *Subject: *[EXTERNAL] RE: ITI VPATs and upcoming WCAG 2.2
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> Thanks for asking this question Patrick. Happy to hear that people are
> already asking for VPATs with WCAG 2. 2 in them. Also, Mary Jo, I’m glad to
> hear that there’s progress on bringing this into the ITI’s VPAT. I wanted
> to add that I’ve just
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> Thanks for asking this question Patrick. Happy to hear that people are
> already asking for VPATs with WCAG 2.2 in them.  Also, Mary Jo, I’m glad to
> hear that there’s progress on bringing this into the ITI’s VPAT.
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> I wanted to add that I’ve just started the process of including WCAG 2.2
> within OpenACR:
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> https://github.com/gsa/openacr-editor
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> I’ve just submitted the first PR as part of this process:
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> https://github.com/CivicActions/openacr/pull/21/files
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> It probably won’t be included in CivicActions editor or schema until
> September. It is all open source code, but expect it to take longer to
> become part of the GSA’s repo.  That said, I know folks there area also
> eager to keep up with WCAG recommendations.
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> When we get it up, there will be a standardized, machine-readable
> accessible conformance report tool which people can use.
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> Mary Jo, so do you think that in the future that your main landing page
> will look like this https://www.itic.org/policy/accessibility/vpat still
> with links to 4 word documents?
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>    - VPAT 2.x Rev 508: Revised Section 508 standards – the U.S. Federal
>    accessibility standard
>    - VPAT 2.x Rev EU: EN 301 549 – the European Union’s “Accessibility
>    requirements suitable for public procurement of ICT products and services
>    in Europe”
>    - VPAT 2.x Rev WCAG: WCAG 2.1/2.2 or ISO/IEC 40500 (equivalent to WCAG
>    2.0) and WCAG2.1/2/2, W3C/WAI’s recently updated Web Content Accessibility
>    Guidelines
>    - VPAT 2.4 INT: Incorporates all three of the above standards
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> Probably the easiest way to maintain it going ahead. With a JSON catalog
> it should be much easier to switch between reporting formats, and just have
> the information you want to report on.
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> Mike
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> Mike Gifford, Senior Strategist, CivicActions
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> Drupal Core Accessibility Maintainer
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> https://civicactions.com    |  https://accessibility.civicactions.com
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> http://twitter.com/mgifford |  http://linkedin.com/in/mgifford
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> On August 7, 2023 at 4:01:33 PM, Mary Jo Mueller (maryjom@us.ibm.com)
> wrote:
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> Good question Patrick.
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> It would take maybe a month or so to get the updated VPAT out there and
> downloadable from the ITI website. The changes to the files can be made
> quite quickly (a couple of weeks), but it could take a few weeks to get
> them published on the ITI website. Timing depends on the ITI web
> development team and how busy they are. To help you in the meantime if you
> are wanting to support WCAG 2.2 it before we get the updates out:
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> We will update the VPAT version number and publication date – don’t know
> what that might be (probably 2.5). We will incorporate the level A, AA, and
> AAA criteria into their respective tables in the document, marking the WCAG
> 2.2 new criteria by adding “2.2 only” on those individual items. As an
> example, this line item would be added to the Level A table:
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>    - 3.2.6 Consistent Help <https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/#consistent-help> (Level
>    A 2.2 only)
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> Additionally, we’d add the WCAG 2.2 standard and link into the Applicable
> Standards/Guidelines table in a new row in a manner consistent with the
> other two versions.
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> Best regards,
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> Mary Jo Mueller
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> IBM Accessibility Standards Program Manager
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> *From: *Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
> *Date: *Monday, August 7, 2023 at 3:41 PM
> *To: *w3c-wai-gl@w3.org <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> *Subject: *[EXTERNAL] Re: ITI VPATs and upcoming WCAG 2.2
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> Thank you Mary Jo. Any idea (possibly from past experience of similar
> updates) how long you think an update may take once 2.2 is REC?
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> I only ask because some of our clients are already asking us now to
> evaluate against 2.2 SCs now (with the understanding that the SCs may
> still slightly change before REC), but are wondering how those would
> then show up in the ACR we deliver them. Currently, we're planning to
> (naively) extend the WCAG 2.0/2.1 tables to just slot in the new SCs,
> but are aware that by doing this we risk diverging from the official ITI
> template.
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> P
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> On 07/08/2023 19:12, Mary Jo Mueller wrote:
> > As the chair of the ITI VPAT TF, we will wait until the update to WCAG
> > 2.1 is published and for the Recommendation version of WCAG 2.2 to be
> > published. That way if there are any last-minute changes, it won’t cause
> > churn in the VPAT.  As Andrew aptly put, we typically wait for
> > regulations to take up the new WCAG before the VPAT changes but with the
> > obsolescence of 4.1.1 Parsing it is important to get that change out
> > there ASAP.
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> > Best regards,
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> > Mary Jo Mueller
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> > IBM Accessibility Standards Program Manager
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