- From: Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 00:15:35
- To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
WAI Interest Group: Please note that the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-UAAG10-20001023 are currently undergoing last call review. The User Agent Accessibility Gudielines Working Group (UAWG) invites comments on the document until 4 May 2001. Please send comments to w3c-wai-ua@w3.org (archive [1]). There is a new document summary http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-UAAG10-20010409/uaag10-summary which provides a non-technical overview of these guidelines. You are also invited to review the companion Techniques document [2], although this latter document is not in last call review. Below you will find more information about the UAAG 1.0, and the UAWG's request for reports of implementation experience. This message may be circulated to other lists, but please be careful to avoid cross-postings. Thank you for your review, Judy Brewer and Ian Jacobs, on behalf of the UAWG. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/ [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20010409/ ---- About the UAAG 1.0: This excerpt from the document's Abstract describes the purpose of the document: "This document provides guidelines for designing user agents that lower barriers to Web accessibility for people with disabilities (visual, hearing, physical, and cognitive). User agents include HTML browsers and other types of software that retrieve and render Web content. A user agent that conforms to these guidelines will promote accessibility through its own user interface and through other internal facilities, including its ability to communicate with other technologies (especially assistive technologies)." This is the third last call for UAAG 1.0. In response to substantial issues raised when the document became a Proposed Recommendation in March 2000, and again during its second last call, the UAWG has made substantial improvements and clarifications in this version. More information about changes to the document [3], and the issues the UAWG has addressed ([4], [5]) is available from the UAWG home page [6] and from the detailed call for review [7]. [3] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/wai-ua-wd-changes.html [4] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/2001/03/issues-20010329 [5] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/2000/10/lc-issues [6] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/ [7] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2001AprJun/0014 ---- Implementation reports encouraged: The UAWG encourages all last call reviewers to document implementations known to satisfy the checkpoints. This information will help the UAWG prepare an implementation report for presentation to the Director should the document advance to the next stage of the Recommendation process. We encourage you to use the checklist appendix as an evaluation tool (available in tabular [8] or list format [9]). [8] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-UAAG10-20010409/uaag10-chktable [9] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-UAAG10-20010409/uaag10-chklist -- Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 831 457-2842 Cell: +1 917 450-8783 -- 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, 200 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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