- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 18:39:04 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
- CC: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Hello WAI Interest Group, The review period of the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (UAAG 1.0) Proposed Recommendation (PR) ended 7 April 2000, and you may be wondering about the User Agent Working Group's (UAWG) progress since then. The UAWG resolved most of issues raised during PR in the weeks that followed the end of the review (thanks, in part, to a face-to-face meeting at the Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic in Princeton, New Jersey in early April). However, a few issues proved more difficult to resolve quickly. Several reviewers commented that some of the requirements (checkpoints) were too vague and it was therefore difficult to determine what a user agent needed to implement in order to conform. As a result, for the last several months, the UAWG has been clarifying and sharpening the requirements of the document. These clarifications and links to disucssion and resolutions are documented in "Determining Conformance to the User Agent Guidelines" [1]. The actual changes have been incorporated directly into the UAAG 1.0 (refer to the 18 August draft [2]). The UAWG still has a few issues [3] to resolve, but is nearly ready to request a last call review of the document. To the extent possible, the UAWG has made changes that clarify the document but do not add new requirements. The complete revision history of the UAAG 1.0 and Techniques is available on the Web [4]. Your review during the upcoming last call will be very important. You may send comments to the Working Group about the 18 August draft [2] (and probably should send important comments), but if you intend a substantial last call review, we recommend waiting until the last call period begins, a more formal indicator that the UAWG considers it has completed its task. Thank you, - Ian [1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/2000/05/ua-minreqs [2] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WD-UAAG10-20000818 [3] http://server.rehab.uiuc.edu/ua-issues/issues-linear.html [4] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/wai-ua-wd-changes.html -- Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 831 457-2842 Cell: +1 917 450-8783
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