Thoughts on WCAG 2.0 - "Is WCAG 2.0 almost done?!"

Hi WAI Interest Group folks,

I posted some thoughts on WCAG 2.0 on the W3C Q&A blog at:
http://www.w3.org/QA/2007/12/is_wcag_20_almost_done.html

I'm interested to know what you think...

Best,
~Shawn



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Subject: Call for Review: WCAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:12:53 -0600
From: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>
To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>

Dear WAI Interest Group Participants,

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group invites you to review the second WCAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft published on 11 December 2007. WCAG 2.0 explains how to make Web sites, applications, and other content accessible to people with disabilities. Please submit any comments on the following document by 1 February 2008:
  http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20071211/

This second WCAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft is provided for public review of the document now that it has all resolutions from previous comments incorporated. The WCAG Working Group hopes that it has resolved all substantive issues with this draft, and looks forward to progressing to the next stages in completing WCAG 2.0. The next stages are described in:
  How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process
  http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/w3c-process

The different WCAG 2.0 documents that the WCAG Working Group updated are introduced in:
  Overview of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Documents
  http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag20.php

A key tool for reviewing and working with WCAG 2.0 documents is:
  WCAG 2.0 Quick Reference
  http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/

For a summary of issues, revisions, and rationales on WCAG 2.0 Working Drafts--such as coverage of cognitive disabilities and testability--see:
  Issues and Changes to WCAG 2.0
  http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2007/12/change-summary

Note that the navigation between the documents is changed in these drafts. Now each topic in "Understanding WCAG 2.0" and "Techniques for WCAG 2.0" is in a separate small Web page.

When you review the updated documents, if there are any significant additional issues that you feel could present a barrier to adoption and implementation of WCAG 2.0, please submit comments by:
  Friday 1 February 2008
Please use the comment form or the email address provided in:
  Instructions for Commenting on WCAG 2.0 Documents
  http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/comments/
Comments in support of progressing WCAG 2.0 to the next stages are also welcome.

WCAG 2.0 is part of a series of accessibility guidelines/standards developed by WAI, which are listed in:
  WAI Guidelines and Techniques
  http://www.w3.org/WAI/guid-tech.html

Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid cross-postings where possible.

Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you in advance for your review of WCAG 2.0 documents.

On behalf of:
  Loretta Guarino Reid, Co-chair of WCAG WG, and Computer Scientist, Google Inc.
  Gregg Vanderheiden, Co-chair of WCAG WG, and Director of Trace R&D Center, University   of Wisconsin-Madison
  Michael Cooper, W3C Team Contact for WCAG WG
Regards,
  Shawn Henry, Outreach Coordinator, Web Accessibility Initiative, W3C
  Judy Brewer, Director, Web Accessibility Initiative, W3C


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Shawn Lawton Henry, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
about: http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/
phone: +1-617-395-7664
e-mail: shawn@w3.org

Received on Wednesday, 12 December 2007 23:03:27 UTC