User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (UAWG) now closed

Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
Chairs,
w3c-wai-ua@w3.org subscribers,

The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group [1], whose charter  
we had previously extended until 5 January [2] to complete publications,  
implementations, and notes for potential future combined guidelines,  
closed as scheduled on 5 January.

The UAWG produced the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0 [3],  
a W3C Working Group Note; and UAAG 2.0 Reference: Explanations, Examples,  
and Resources for User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 [4], also a W3C  
Working Group Note; a Working Draft of Mobile Examples for UAAG 2.0 [5],  
which became background information for work of the joint Mobile  
Accessibility Task Force [6] with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines  
(WCAG) Working Group [7]; and identified UAAG 2.0 implementations by  
feature [8], a github resource.

UAAG 2.0 guides developers in designing user agents that make the web more  
accessible to people with disabilities. User agents include browsers,  
browser extensions, media players, readers and other applications that  
render web content.

The W3C would like to thank the group’s Chair, Jim Allan (Invited Expert),  
its previous Co-Chair, Kelly Ford (Microsoft), and all the participants in  
the group for their efforts.

Possible future work on accessibility of user agents (and potentially also  
authoring tools) may occur on future combined accessibility guidelines.

This announcement follows section 5.2.8 of the Process Document:
    http://www.w3.org/2015/Process-20150901/#GeneralTermination

For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
Judy Brewer, WAI Domain Lead;
Coralie Mercier, Head of W3C Marketing & Communications


[1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/
[2]  
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2015OctDec/0054.html
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/UAAG20/
[4] http://www.w3.org/TR/IMPLEMENTING-UAAG20/
[5] https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-UAAG20-Reference-20140925/mobile.html
[6] https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/mobile-a11y-tf/
[7] https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/
[8] http://w3c.github.io/UAAG-Implementations/Implementations-by-feature

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Coralie Mercier  -  W3C Marketing & Communications -  http://www.w3.org
mailto:coralie@w3.org +336 4322 0001 http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/

Received on Friday, 18 March 2016 23:20:00 UTC