- From: Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 11:38:33 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
To: WAI Interest Group LAST CALL: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines have now entered "Last Call" status. Within W3C, "Last Call" status signifies a final review period before Proposed Recommendation. Assuming no critical issues emerge during Last Call, the document then goes to W3C Member organizations for review regarding whether or not it can become a W3C Recommendation. Many of you may have looked at or used the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines over the past several months. Since this is your last opportunity to comment, we urge you to do a comprehensive review of the Working Draft, and to forward your comments to <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org> as described in the "Last Call" message below. Last Call closes on March 19, 1999. The Working Group will not be able to incorporate Last Call comments received after this date. You may forward this message to other organizations that have an interest in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. If you do so please cc <jbrewer@w3.org> on the forwards. Comments from external organizations should be sent to <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org> (public) or <w3c-wai-cg@w3.org> (private) as in the message below. Regards, Judy LAST CALL MESSAGE FOLLOWS From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> Organization: W3C - World Wide Web Consortium X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i586) To: misha.wolf@reuters.com, aldiaz@us.ibm.com, steven.pemberton@cwi.nl, hagino@w3.org, jutta.treviranus@utoronto.ca, jongund@uiuc.edu, hoschka@w3.org, clilley@w3.org, chisholm@trace.wisc.edu, po@trace.wisc.edu, cpl@starlingweb.com CC: dd@w3.org, jbrewer@w3.org, chairs@w3.org, w3t-nerd@w3.org, w3c-wai-cg@w3.org, ij@w3.org Subject: Last Call for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines * Document to review: [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-WAI-PAGEAUTH-19990226/ * Last call ends: March 19, 1999 * Send comments to: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org With this call for review, the W3C "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines" [1] enters the "last call" period. This document, formerly entitled "WAI Page Author Guidelines," is part of a series of accessibility guidelines published by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative. The series also includes the "User Agent Accessibility Guidelines" and the "Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines." Until March 19, 1999, the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Interest Group, Chairs of W3C Working Groups, and interested parties are invited to review this document and send suggestions and comments to w3c-wai-gl@w3.org. Comments and responses to them will be archived [2] for public reference. Comments that you wish to keep private to W3C Members may be sent to w3c-wai-cg@w3.org. To ensure that dependencies with other W3C Working Groups have been addressed, we urge the following Working Group Chairs to review the document before the end of the last call period: Judy Brewer, Chair WAI IG Angel Diaz, Chairs Math WG Jon Gunderson, Chair WAI User Agent WG Tatsuya Hagino, Chair Mobile WG Philipp Hoschka, Chair SYMM WG Chris Lilley, Chair CSS & FP WG Steven Pemberton, Chair HTML WG Jutta Treviranus, Chair WAI Authoring Tool WG Misha Wolf, Chair I18N WG Once the last call period has ended, all comments have been evaluated, and the W3C Director has reviewed the document, the Working Group anticipates that the Guidelines will become a Proposed Recommendation. * Background The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines explain to Web content developers how to make their pages more accessible to people with disabilities. Following these guidelines will also make pages more useful to people using a broad range of devices (desktop browsers, voice browsers, mobile phones, automobile-based PC's, etc.) and to search engines. Tools that create Web content (HTML editors, document conversion tools, tools that generate Web content from databases) should generate content that is consistent with these guidelines. The Guidelines have been organized as follows: 1) There are sixteen "guidelines" (principles of accessible design, not prioritized). 2) Each guideline specifies one or more prioritized "checkpoints" that explain how authors can satisfy the guideline. 3) An appendix document [3] lists all the checkpoints in the Guidelines, organized by subject and priority level. This version of the Guidelines includes a conformance statement that explains how documents or processes may claim conformance to the Guidelines. The Guidelines are accompanied by another document, entitled "Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines." The Techniques Document explains in detail how authors may implement the checkpoints enumerated in the Guidelines. Please note that the non-normative Techniques Document, which continues to evolve, is not entering last call (although comments about techniques are still welcome). The Guidelines have been produced by the W3C WAI Page Author Guidelines Working Group [4] as part of the WAI Web Accessibility Initiative [5]. Sincerely, Chuck Letourneau, Co-chair Gregg Vanderheiden, Co-chair Wendy Chisholm, Editor Ian Jacobs, Editor [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-WAI-PAGEAUTH-19990226/ [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/ [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-WAI-PAGEAUTH-19990226/full-checklist [4] http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL [5] http://www.w3.org/WAI/ _________________________________________________________________________ Judy Brewer jbrewer@w3.org +1.617.258.9741 http://www.w3.org/WAI Director,Web Accessibility Initiative(WAI), World Wide Web Consortium(W3C) WAI Interest Group home page: http://www.w3.org/WAI/IG Previous WAI IG Updates: http://www.w3.org/WAI/IG/Overview.html#Updates Unsubscribe? Send "unsubscribe" subject line: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org Questions? http://www.w3.org/WAI/IG/Overview.html#Uselist or wai@w3.org
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