Overlap Between Mobile Web (MWBP) and Accessibility (WCAG) Document Published

Dear WAI Interest Group participants,

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group (BPWG) and the WAI Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) today published the W3C Working Group Note:
Relationship between Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) at:
    http://www.w3.org/TR/mwbp-wcag

For an introduction to the overlap between design goals and guidelines covering accessibility for people with disabilities, and design goals and best practices for mobile devices, see:
*Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web*: Making a Web Site Accessible Both for People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices, at:
    http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/

For examples of barriers that people (without disabilities) face when interacting with web content via mobile devices, and similar barriers for people with disabilities using desktop computers, see:
*Shared Web Experiences*: Barriers Common to Mobile Device Users and People with Disabilities, at:
    http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/experiences

Information about the Working Groups is available from:
- Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group (BPWG)
 http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/
- Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG)
 http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/

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

Regards,
Shawn Lawton Henry, WAI EOWG Chair
Jo Rabin, MWI BPWG Co-Chair
Daniel Appelquist, MWI BPWG Co-Chair



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Shawn Lawton Henry
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
e-mail: shawn@w3.org
phone: +1.617.395.7664
about: http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/

Received on Thursday, 9 July 2009 18:14:04 UTC