- From: Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 21:08:39 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
WAI Interest Group:
Today the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines <http://www.w3.org/TR/UAAG>
became a Candidate Recommendation.
W3C released the following notice to explain Candidate Recommendation
status for this document.
In brief, we encourage implementations of particular aspects of these
guidelines, and feedback prior to moving to Proposed Recommendation. The
comment period ends February 18, 2000.
Regards,
- Judy
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I am pleased to advance the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
1.0 (UAAG 1.0) to Candidate Recommendation status in response to
the Working Group Chair's request...
The User Agent Guidelines Working Group will use this review
period to study a particular implementation issue: to what
extent the W3C DOM can ensure communication between general purpose
user agents (graphical browsers, text browsers, media players, etc.)
and assistive technologies (screen readers, screen magnifiers,
speech recognition software, alternative keyboards, etc.).
Implementation experience for other checkpoints has been documented.
Review comments should be sent to w3c-wai-ua@w3.org before 18
February 2000. This is a public mailing list.
Advancement of a document to Candidate Recommendation is an
explicit call for implementation experience and technical
feedback from W3C members and the developer community at large.
More information about Candidate Recommendation is available in
the 11 November 2000 Process Document.
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/Process-19991111/tr.html#RecsCR
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About the UAAG 1.0 Candidate Recommendation
Title: User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
Date: 28 January 2000
URI: http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-UAAG10-20000128/
Last Call Working Draft:
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-WAI-USERAGENT-19991105/
Editors:
Jon Gunderson, U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Chair
Ian Jacobs, W3C
Abstract:
The guidelines in this document explain to developers how to
design user agents that are accessible to people with
disabilities. User agents include graphical desktop browsers,
multimedia players, text browsers, voice browsers, plug-ins,
and other assistive technologies that give full access to Web
content. While these guidelines primarily address the
accessibility of general-purpose graphical user agents
(including communication with assistive technologies), the
principles presented apply to other types of user agents as
well. Following these principles will make the Web
accessible to users with disabilities and will benefit
all users.
Status of This Document:
This is the Candidate Recommendation of User Agent Accessibility
Guidelines 1.0. The User Agent Guidelines Working Group does not
anticipate making any significant changes to this document and
therefore encourages implementation experience and comment from
developers during this Candidate Recommendation review. However, this
is still a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by
other documents at any time.
The Candidate Recommendation review period ends on 18 February
2000. Please send comments about this document to the public mailing
list w3c-wai-ua@w3.org (public archives).
During the Candidate Recommendation review, the Working Group will
study how the requirements of this document are satisfied by deployed
user agents and with what level of success or difficulty. The Working
Group anticipates asking the W3C Director to advance this document to
Proposed Recommendation and will present its findings at that time.
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Minority Opinions
Some Working Group participants dissented on the resolution to
one issue: whether the priority of documenting active
user-preferences for input configurations (such as keyboard
bindings) should be the same priority as for author-specified
configurations. The Working Group welcomes feedback on this
issue. The minority opinion is available at:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2000JanMar/0178.html
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Candidate Recommendation Support Materials
Techniques Document. This document suggests some
techniques for satisfying the checkpoints in the
guidelines document.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20000128
Implementation Report. This is a preliminary report of how
deployed user agents satisfy the checkpoints.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WD-UAAG10-IMP-20000126/
List of document changes:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/wai-ua-wd-changes.html
Resolved Issues list:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/2000/01/issues-linear-20000127
User Agent Responsibilities. This document explains how
Working Group decided that the requirements in the guidelines
were appropriate for general purpose user agents.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/2000/01/ua-resp-20000125
Impact Matrix. This document explains which audiences are
most likely to benefit from each checkpoint.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/2000/01/WD-UAGL-impact-matrix-20000121
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Working Group Goals During Candidate Recommendation
1) Demonstrate that the W3C DOM can ensure communication
between general purpose user agents and assistive technologies
Assistive technologies provide full access to the Web
by providing specialized services. To do so, they
require information about content and user interface
from general purpose user agents.
2) Complete the implementation report based on vendor reviews
of their own products.
3) Refine and improve the Techniques Document.
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About the User Agent Guidelines Working Group
Working Group Home Page: http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/
Working Group Charter: http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/wai-ua-charter
WAI Home Page: http://www.w3.org/WAI/
A list of current W3C Recommendations and other technical
documents can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR.
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Janet Daly, Head of Public Relations
for Tim Berners-Lee, Director
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Judy Brewer jbrewer@w3.org +1.617.258.9741 http://www.w3.org/WAI
Director, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) International Program Office
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
MIT/LCS Room NE43-355, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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