- From: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 15:20:01 -0600
- To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
- CC: Jim Allan <jimallan@tsbvi.edu>, Kelly Ford <Kelly.Ford@microsoft.com>, Jeanne Spellman <jeanne@w3.org>
Dear WAI Interest Group Participants, Calling all developers of browsers, media players, web applications, assistive technologies, plug-ins, extensions, accessibility APIs (application programming interfaces) — and anyone interested in web accessibility: Now is the time for you to review UAAG 2.0 — we published the Last Call Working Draft today. User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0 Last Call Working Draft http://www.w3.org/TR/UAAG20/ Changes since the last UAAG 2.0 Working Draft are described in the Status section at: http://w3.org/TR/UAAG20/#status-changes An updated Working Draft of Implementing UAAG 2.0 Working Draft is also available for review at: http://www.w3.org/TR/Implementing-UAAG20/ Please send comments to the publicly-archived list: public-uaag2-comments@w3.org *by 16 December 2013* Working on UAAG: We welcome help developing UAAG. If you might be interested in actively participating in the UAAG Working Group, please read: Participating in WAI at <http://www.w3.org/WAI/participation>. Developers considering implementing UAAG 2.0, please contact Jeanne Spellman <http://www.w3.org/People/jeanne/> Background: UAAG defines how browsers, media players, and other "user agents" should support accessibility for people with disabilities and work with assistive technologies. Implementing UAAG 2.0 provides additional information about the guidelines and success criteria, including intent, examples, and resources. For more information on UAAG and other standards from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), see: * UAAG Overview <http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/uaag.php> * WAI Guidelines and Techniques <http://www.w3.org/WAI/guid-tech.html> * User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (UAWG) <http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/> About the URIs: The first links above go to the latest version of the documents. The "dated" versions are: * http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-UAAG20-20131107/ * http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-IMPLEMENTING-UAAG20-20131107/ The difference between these links are explained in Referencing and Linking to WAI Guidelines and Technical Documents at: <http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/linking.html> Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you in advance for your comments. Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid cross-postings where possible. Regards, Shawn Henry, WAI Outreach Jim Allan, UAWG Co-Chair Kelly Ford, UAWG Co-Chair Jeanne Spellman, UAWG W3C Staff Contact ----- Shawn Lawton Henry W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) e-mail: shawn@w3.org phone: +1.617.395.7664 about: http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/
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