Extension of WCAG 2.0 Comment Period to 10 January 2005 [was: Fwd: Call for Review: Working Draft of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0]

Dear WAI Interest Group Participants:

The comment period for the current draft (19 Nov 2004) of the Web Content 
Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 has been extended to Monday, 10 January 2005.

Please find information on how & where to comment below, as well as some 
questions that you might want to address.

Thanks in advance for your comments, which help us develop the guidelines.

- Judy

>Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 01:06:22 -0500
>To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
>From: Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>
>Subject: Call for Review: Working Draft of Web Content Accessibility 
>Guidelines 2.0
>
>Dear WAI Interest Group Participants,
>
>A new Working Draft of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 
>2.0) as well as four supporting documents were published 19 November 2004. 
>The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) invites 
>you to comment on these documents. W3C Working Drafts provide 
>opportunities for public comment during the development of a 
>specification. Please send comments to the public comments mailing list by 
>3 January 2005:
>    public-comments-wcag20@w3.org
>
>WCAG 2.0 addresses accessibility of Web content for people with 
>disabilities. It will apply to a wider range of Web technologies than WCAG 
>1.0 and is intended to be understandable to a wider audience.
>
>Since the previous public Working Draft of WCAG 2.0, published on 30 July 
>2004, the WCAG WG has incorporated over 200 public comments. To help 
>address usability issues raised with the July drafts, WAI also developed 
>"Introduction to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Working 
>Draft Documents" as a starting point for WCAG 2.0. The Introduction 
>illustrates the relationships between WCAG 2.0 and the supporting 
>documents, and links to the current version of each document. The 
>Introduction is available at:
>    <http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag20>
>
>The five documents published on 19 November 2004:
>    - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
>      <http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-WCAG20-20041119/>
>    - General Techniques for WCAG 2.0
>      <http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-WCAG20-GENERAL-20041119/>
>    - HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0
>      <http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20041119/>
>    - CSS Techniques for WCAG 2.0
>      <http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-WCAG20-CSS-TECHS-20041119/>
>    - Client-side Scripting Techniques for WCAG 2.0:
>      <http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-WCAG20-SCRIPT-TECHS-20041119/>
>
>The Working Group is interested in discussion of the following questions.
>
>1. In general, is this WCAG 2.0 Working Draft easy to understand?
>    Please identify phrases that are difficult to understand. Please
>    suggest wording for the Working Group to consider.
>
>2. Does "Introduction to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
>    Working Draft Documents" clarify the relationships between WCAG 2.0
>    and the four Techniques documents?
>
>3. In WCAG 1.0, the WCAG WG identified temporary solutions for authors;
>    several guidelines begin "until user agents..."  If WCAG 2.0 assumes
>    that end-users have browsers that conform to the User Agent
>    Accessibility Guidelines, WCAG 2.0 becomes simpler, but what is the
>    effect on the end-user?  Please read and comment on the Editorial
>    Note at:
>       <http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-WCAG20-20041119/#baseline-note>
>
>4. The first public Working Draft of Client-side Scripting Techniques
>    for WCAG 2.0 was published to solicit early review and discussion.
>    Related to question #2 (about Baseline Technologies Assumption)
>    the WCAG WG asks, "Are functional alternatives required for content
>    that contains scripting?" In other words, should WCAG 2.0 move away
>    from the alternative functionality requirement of WCAG 1.0
>    Checkpoint 6.3 [1]?
>       [1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/wai-pageauth.html#tech-scripts>
>
>
>Please send your comments by 3 January 2005 to:
>      public-comments-wcag20@w3.org
>The archive for that mailing list is available at:
>     <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/>
>
>
>When sending comments, please:
>      - State the issue as clearly and simply as possible.
>      - Provide links to specific examples or references.
>      - If possible, suggest solutions.
>      - Remember that the Working Group welcomes volunteers
>        to help with the work.
>
>When waiting for responses to comments:
>      - Track your issue in the open issues list
><http://trace.wisc.edu/bugzilla_wcag/condensedreports/wcag2_issues.php>
>      - Follow up on the mailing list if you don't find your issue in the
>        open issues list.
>
>Please let us know if you have any questions. Many thanks in advance for 
>your comments. Additional information on the Working Group is available at:
>    <http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/>
>
>Note:
>Our target is for WCAG 2.0 to become a W3C Recommendation in the first 
>half of 2005. Until then, WCAG 1.0 will continue to be the current and 
>stable document to use. If your site currently conforms to WCAG 1.0, be 
>assured that conformance to WCAG 2.0 will not require a complete redesign 
>of your site but it will likely require some tweaks.
>
>Note:
>This message may be circulated to other lists, avoiding cross-postings 
>where possible.
>
>Wendy Chisholm - W3C Team Contact for WCAG WG
>Judy Brewer - Director, Web Accessibility Initiative, W3C
>Gregg Vanderheiden - Chair of WCAG WG, and Director of Trace R&D Center
>
>
>--
>Judy Brewer    +1.617.258.9741    http://www.w3.org/WAI
>Director, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
>MIT/CSAIL Building 32-G530
>32 Vassar Street
>Cambridge, MA,  02139,  USA

-- 
Judy Brewer    +1.617.258.9741    http://www.w3.org/WAI
Director, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
MIT/CSAIL Building 32-G530
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA,  02139,  USA

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