- From: Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 23:54:59 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
WAI INTEREST GROUP UPDATE, March 1, 1999 1. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Enter Last Call 2. Authoring Tool WG Issues New /TR Draft; AUWG Currently Meeting at Lotus 3. Registration for WAI Meetings at CSUN Still Open 4. Final Quick Tips Available 5. Two Tools to Try 6. WAI Guidelines Change Names 7. Updated US EITAAC Information Available ----------- This WAI IG Update resumes the (roughly) bi-weekly series. The previous issue was on December 31, 1998. 1. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Enter Last Call: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (previously Page Author Accessibility Guidelines) have entered Last Call. This is the last opportunity to comment on the document before it is finalized. Last Call closes on March 19. The document to review is at <http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-WAI-PAGEAUTH-19990226/> and a message explaining the last call process is at <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/1999JanMar/0314.html>. 3. Authoring Tool WG Issues New /TR Draft; WG Currently Meeting at Lotus: The AUWG has published, to the W3C Technical Reports page <http://www.w3.org/TR>, the Working Draft which WAI IG reviewed from February 16 to 23. The new version is at <http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-WAI-AUTOOLS/>. The AUWG is currently meeting (March 1 & 2) at Lotus Development Corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The WG is making good progress on a new draft, so stay tuned for an updated version for WAI IG review. 3. Registration for WAI Meetings at CSUN Still Open: Registration for WAI meetings at CSUN is still open. Information is available at <http://www.w3.org/WAI/1999/03/agenda.htm>. Meetings include WAI Interest Group, WAI Education & Outreach Working Group, and WAI Protocols & Formats Working Group. Please note that pre-registration is required to attend these meetings, and permission of either of the Co-Chairs is required to participate in Sunday's PFWG meeting. 4. Final Quick Tips Available: The final text of the WAI Quick Tips is available at <http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/QuickTips>. These will be printed as tear-off attachments to a flyer which can be stuffed with literature at conferences, and also printed on business-card-sized plastic reference cards. These will be available by mid-March and can be ordered from the Quick Tips page. 5. Two Tools to Try: Updated versions of the Evaluation & Repair Groups' "altifier" and "table linearizer" are available at the following URL's: - <http://www.vorburger.ch/projects/alt> - <http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/WG/tablin> 6. WAI Guidelines Change Names: Following the discussion of document renaming on several WAI lists over the past several months, as well as discussion within W3C to ensure that the WAI Guidelines' naming is consistent with other W3C documents, the WAI three guidelines have been renamed as follows: - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (previously WAI Page Author Guidelines) - User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (previously WAI User Agent Guidelines) - Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (previously WAI Authoring Tool Guidelines) 7. Updated US EITAAC Information Available For those of you following the work of the US Electronic & Information Technology Access Advisory Committee, which is developing standards for accessible electronic & information technology procurement by US government agencies -- including accessible Web sites and applications -- updated information on meetings is available at <http://www.access-board.gov/notices/eitaacmtg.htm>. Regards, Judy _________________________________________________________________________ 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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