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Announcements

• Open position: Web Accessibility Engineer (China)
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Events, Meetings, Presentations

• Presentations at AccessU in May 2016 in Austin, TX, USA:
  • Accessible Widgets (Part 1), Accessible Widgets (Part 2) - tutorials by Eric
  • Easy Checks for Web Accessibility: Get the Gist (No Experience Necessary) - tutorial by Shawn
  • The WAI to Web Accessibility: An Interactive Tour Through Resources from the W3C Web Accessibility - tutorial by Shawn, Brent, Sharron
  • Catching Up with Accessibility: Beginners's Basics - tutorial by Shawn

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Documents in Progress

The WAI Interest Group (WAI IG) page lists documents in progress, such as accessibility guidelines WAI-ARIA 1.0, UAAG 2.0, and ATAG 2.0.

Highlights

For Review: Final Working Draft of WAI-ARIA 1.1

A Working Draft of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1 is available for review. This is intended to be the last Working Draft before the specification becomes a Candidate Recommendation. Please review to ensure this version is feature complete. Comments are requested by 26 August 2016. (2016-07-21)

For Review: Updated WCAG Techniques & Understanding WCAG

WAI announces a Call for Review of draft updates to supporting documents for WCAG 2.0: Techniques for WCAG 2.0 (Public Review Draft) and Understanding WCAG 2.0 (Public Review Draft). (This is not an update to WCAG 2.0, which is a stable document.) To learn more about the updates, see Call for Review: WCAG 2.0 Techniques Draft Updates e-mail. Please submit comments by 9 August 2016. (2016-07-19)

WAI-ARIA 1.0 Authoring Practices and Primer retired

WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1 is the key support resource from the ARIA Working Group for content authors using Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA). The older draft WAI-ARIA 1.0 support resources have been retired: Authoring Practices and Primer. The content of those older documents in this publication has been removed and the Status section directs readers to the WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1. Content that is still relevant from the older resources has been migrated to and updated in the WAI-ARIA 1.1 Authoring Practices. For more information, see the WAI-ARIA 1.0 Authoring Practices and Primer retired email. (2015-07-14)

New Videos: Perspectives on Web Accessibility -- Essential for Some, Useful for All

Web Accessibility Perspectives explores the impact of accessibility for people with disabilities and the benefits for everyone. This resource introduces 10 web accessibility topics with short videos, brief descriptions, and links to learn more. The videos relate the benefits of accessibility to everyone in different situations, and encourage viewers to learn more about web accessibility. (2016-May-17)

For Review: Accessibility Requirements for People with Low Vision - First Public Working Draft

WAI invites you to review the Accessibility Requirements for People with Low Vision Working Draft. This document describes what people with low vision need for electronic content, tools, and technologies to be accessible. It includes an overview of low vision and describes specific user needs. It does not set technical requirements. It provides the background for planned future work on guidance for making web content, tools, and technologies accessible to people with low vision. Please send comments by 14 April 2016. (2016-March-17)

Updated: How to Meet WCAG 2.0: A customizable quick reference

We're excited about the shiny new version of How to Meet WCAG 2.0: A customizable quick reference to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 requirements (success criteria) and techniques. It has a more modern design and additional functionality to filter by Tags that are categorized under Developing, Interaction Design, Content Creation, and Visual Design. (The previous version is still available.) (2016-March-17)

WCAG-EM Report Tool: Accessibility Evaluation Report Generator

The WCAG-EM Report Tool: Website Accessibility Evaluation Report Generator is updated. The tool helps you generate website accessibility evaluation reports according to Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM). We encourage feedback on this version of the WCAG-EM Report Tool and suggestions for improvements for the next version. (2016-March-17)

Updated: Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool List

An updated version of the Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List is now available. Web accessibility evaluation tool vendors are encouraged to submit information about their tool to the list. (2016-March-17)

For Review: WAI-ARIA 1.1, DPub Roles, Accessibility API Mappings, and Authoring Practices Working Drafts

Updated Working Drafts of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1, Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0, Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.1, Accessible Name and Description: Computation and API Mappings 1.1, Digital Publishing Accessibility API Mappings 1.0, and WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1 are available for review. Please send comments by 15 April 2016. (2016-March-17)

Updated March 2016: Understanding WCAG & WCAG Techniques

Updated supporting documents for WCAG 2.0 were published today: Techniques for WCAG 2.0 and Understanding WCAG 2.0. (This is not an update to WCAG 2.0, which is a stable document.) (2016-March-17)

W3C to Receive Emmy® for Work on Accessible Captioning

W3C will receive a Technology & Engineering Emmy ® Award for work on standardization and pioneering development of broadband captioning. W3C's Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) helps make video content more accessible to people with disabilities, particularly people who are deaf or hard of hearing, through text captioning. More info about the award and about TTML is available in a press release, and info about WAI's related work is in the W3C to Receive Emmy® for Work on Accessible Captioning e-mail. Thanks to everyone who contributes to accessibility work through W3C and WAI! (2016-Jan-05)

User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 and UAAG 2.0 Reference published as Working Group Notes

The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (UAWG) has published User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG 2.0) and UAAG 2.0 Reference as W3C Working Group Notes. UAAG 2.0 defines how browsers, media players, and other “user agents” should support accessibility for people with disabilities and work with assistive technologies. Although W3C does not currently have plans to advance UAAG 2.0 to Recommendation, the need and opportunity to improve accessibility in user agents still exists. We hope that this work will be continued in future combined Guidelines group. UAAG 2.0 provides specific accessibility guidance for user agent developers who want to build a better user experience for all users. See the UAAG Published as Notes e-mail for additional info. (2015-Dec-15)

Media Accessibility User Requirements Working Group Note

Media Accessibility User Requirements has been published as a Working Group Note. For information on this publication, see the MAUR Note announcement e-mail and MAUR Note blog post. (2015-Dec-03)

Tips for Getting Started with Web Accessibility

Tips for Getting Started with Web Accessibility are designed to meet the needs of web developers, designers, writers, and others who want practical starting points for implementing web accessibility and WCAG 2.0 in their work. Three Tips pages are available now:

• Tips on Designing for Web Accessibility - Tips for user interface and visual design
• Tips on Writing for Web Accessibility - Tips for writing and presenting content
• Tips on Developing for Web Accessibility - Tips for markup and coding

We welcome your input on improving these pages. Near the bottom of each page are links to GitHub and e-mail for comments. (2015-Oct-01)

ATAG 2.0 is a W3C Recommendation

The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 was published today as a completed web standard. ATAG provides guidelines for designing web content authoring tools that are both more accessible to authors with disabilities (Part A) and designed to enable, support, and promote the production of more accessible web content by all authors (Part B). Selecting authoring tools that conform to ATAG 2.0 can facilitate the process of creating accessible Web content, and can also remove barriers to content creation by people with disabilities. Implementing ATAG 2.0 has been published as a Working Group Note to provide additional explanation, examples and resources for the ATAG 2.0 success criteria. (2015-Sept-24)