- From: Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 23:53:00 -0400
- To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Dear WAI Interest Group Participants: The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (UAAG 1.0) has returned to a fourth Last Call, so that reviewers can comment on changes since Candidate Recommendation. UAAG 1.0 addresses accessibility of Web browsers, multimedia players, and their interoperability with assistive technologies. During the past year, while UAAG 1.0 has been in Candidate Recommendation at W3C, the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group, chaired by Jon Gunderson, has made excellent progress in getting developers involved and in documenting implementation experience. As a result: - The Working Group improved, clarified, and simplified UAAG 1.0. A few checkpoint provisions with low implementation experience were deleted so that UAAG 1.0 could move forward towards Recommendation. The conformance section has been simplified. - The Working Group has made good progress on test suites for UAAG 1.0, which will enable more precise evaluation of the accessibility of specific browers and multimedia players, and on evaluation tools and an evaluation report format. The document is available at: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-UAAG10-20020821/ A list of changes is available: http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/wai-ua-wd-changes The Working Group is taking comments through 18 September 2002, on the public mailing list w3c-wai-ua@w3.org The UAWG does not expect to make substantial changes to the document as a result of this review, and expects to request to advance directly to Proposed Recommendation after the review. More information on the W3C Process is available at: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/ We would like to bring your attention to the report documenting implementations of accessibility features of UAAG 1.0 in browsers and multimedia players, and welcome information on additional implementations of which we may be unaware. http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/impl-pr2/ Regards, Ian Jacobs, W3C Team Contact for the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group and Judy Brewer, Director, Web Accessibility Initiative at W3C -- Judy Brewer +1.617.258.9741 http://www.w3.org/WAI Director, Web Accessibility Initiative, W3C WAI Interest Group: http://www.w3.org/WAI/IG Questions? http://www.w3.org/WAI/IG/Overview.html#Uselist or wai@w3.org
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