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User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group
(UAWG) Charter ** Draft **
- Mission
- Scope
- Duration
- Deliverables
- Milestones
- Dependencies
- Confidentiality
- Meetings
- Communication
- Voting
- Patent Disclosure
- Participation
Information about how to join the UAWG
is available on the Web.
Note. Although this charter is available publicly, some
of the links in this document refer to resources that require W3C Member access.
This charter is written in accordance with section
6.2.6 of the 4
February 2004 W3C Process Document.
The mission of the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working
Group (UAWG) is to produce guidelines for the
development of accessible user agents: software that retrieves and renders
Web content, including text, graphics, sounds, video, images, etc. In
particular, the UAWG seeks to support the implementation of the User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 , and to collect requirements for a subsequent
version of User Agent Accessibility Guidelines.
This mission is complementary to the work of other Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) groups
within the WAI Technical
Activity and the WAI
International Program Office Activity. The UAWG is
part of the WAI Technical Activity.
The UAWG was first chartered
in December 1997 (December 1997 charter). The
UAWG was rechartered
on 5 November 1999 (November 1999 charter,
expired 30 April 2000), rechartered 5 May 2000 (expired
October 2001), and rechartered 18 December 2001
(extended through 31 August 2004).
The scope of the UAWG's work under this charter is to:
- Collect initial requirements for a subsequent version of UAAG,
including but not limited to pervasive computing technologies;
- Evaluate user agents for conformance to the UAAG 1.0;
- Develop test suites for supporting the evaluation of user agents for
conformance to UAAG 1.0;
- Track and promote implementation of UAAG 1.0 requirements;
- Review and comment on the work in other W3C Working Groups for
dependencies with the requirements of the User Agent Accessibility
Guidelines;
- Collect information on techniques for implementing the UAAG 1.0 for a
range of user agents.
This Working Group is scheduled to last for 24 months, from 1 September
2004 through 31 August 2006.
The UAWG has completed work on version 1.0 of the User Agent Accessibility
Guidelines (UAAG). The Working Group will continue to work
on the following deliverables, which are :
- Techniques for (UAAG) 1.0, which provides
implementation details for satisfying the requirements of the
Guidelines.
- Test suites for user agents that render HTML and CSS.
- Test suites for user agents that render audio, video and
animations.
- Test suites for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
- Publish an updated assessment of
implementation of UAAG 1.0;
- Requirement documents and user scenarios for additional
deliverables;
- Minutes of UAWG meetings.
- 3rd quarter 2004
- Publish test suite for HTML
- Publish UAAG 1.0 implementation report for HTML
- 4th quarter 2004
- Develop test suite for video and audio formats (SMIL)
- Continue to update test suite for HTML
- Continue to update UAAG 1.0 implementation report for HTML
- 1st quarter 2005
- Publish test suite for video and audio formats
- Publish UAAG 1.0 implementation report for video and audio
formats
- Continue to update test suite for HTML
- Continue to update UAAG 1.0 implementation report for HTML
- 2nd quarter 2005
- Develop test suite for SVG
- Continue to update test suite for video and audio formats (SMIL)
- Continue to update UAAG 1.0 implementation report for video and ausio
formats (SMIL)
- Continue to update test suite for HTML
- Continue to update UAAG 1.0 implementation report for HTML
- 3rd quarter 2005
- Conitnue to develop test suite for SVG
- Continue to update test suite for video and audio formats (SMIL)
- Continue to update UAAG 1.0 implementation report for video and ausio
formats (SMIL)
- Continue to update test suite for HTML
- Continue to update UAAG 1.0 implementation report for HTML
- 4th quarter 2005
- Publish test suite for SVG
- Publish UAAG 1.0 implementation report for SVG
- Conitnue to develop test suite for SVG
- Continue to update test suite for video and audio formats (SMIL)
- Continue to update UAAG 1.0 implementation report for video and ausio
formats (SMIL)
- Continue to update test suite for HTML
- Continue to update UAAG 1.0 implementation report for HTML
- 1st quarter 2006
- Publish requirement documents and user scenarios for additional
deliverables
- Conitnue to develop test suite for SVG
- Continue to update UAAG 1.0 implementation report for SVG
- Continue to update test suite for video and audio formats (SMIL)
- Continue to update UAAG 1.0 implementation report for video and ausio
formats (SMIL)
- Continue to update test suite for HTML
- Continue to update UAAG 1.0 implementation report for HTML
- 2nd quarter 2006
- Refine requirement documents and user scenarios for additional
deliverables
- Conitnue to develop test suite for SVG
- Continue to update UAAG 1.0 implementation report for SVG
- Continue to update test suite for video and audio formats (SMIL)
- Continue to update UAAG 1.0 implementation report for video and ausio
formats (SMIL)
- Continue to update test suite for HTML
- Continue to update UAAG 1.0 implementation report for HTML
The UAWG should ensure consistency where appropriate
between the test suites and other WAI deliverables, including the "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
1.0", the "Authoring Tool
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0," the "User Agent
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0,"and the "XML Accessibility Guidelines."
WAI Working Groups (e.g., Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines Working Group, Authoring Tool Accessibility
Guidelines Working Group, and Education and Outreach
Working Group) often interact directly. The WAI
Coordination Group can help facilitate those discussions.
The Protocols and Formats Working Group
(Member-confidential) (PFWG public page also
available) is the primary conduit for describing and resolving dependencies
between WAI groups and other W3C Working Groups. Consequently, requirements
for dependencies between the UAWG and other W3C Working Group's are primarily
channeled through the Protocols and Formats Working Group.
The UAWG will interact with the following non-WAI W3C Working Groups via
the Protocols and Formats Working Group:
The UAWG is a public Working Group as defined by Section
4.1 of the W3C Process Document. The Working Group maintains a public
mailing list at w3c-wai-ua@w3.org.
The Working Group meets biweekly via teleconference, and once or twice per
year face-to-face.
The Working Group will make use of the following communication
mechanisms:
The primary means of decision-making in the UAWG is consensus.
This charter is written in accordance with Section
3.4, Votes of the 5
February 2004 W3C Process Document and includes no voting procedures
beyond what the Process Document requires.
11. Patent Disclosure
The UAWG provides an opportunity to share perspectives on Web
accessibility. W3C reminds UAWG participants of their obligation to comply
with patent disclosure obligations as set out in Section
6 of the 5
February 2004 W3C Patent Policy. While the UAWG does not produce
Recommendation-track documents, when UAWG participants review
Recommendation-track specifications from Working Groups, the patent
disclosure obligations do apply.
Please note that the proceedings of UAWG (mailing list archives, minutes,
etc.) are publicly visible.
The UAWG welcomes participation from W3C Member organizations,
and also invites experts from disability organizations, accessibility
researchers, assistive technology developers, government organizations, and
others interested in promoting accessibility in Web-based user agents.
Member and Invited Expert participation
Participants are expected to observe the requirements of the Section
6.2.1.7 of the 4
February 2004 W3C Process Document.
For this Working Group, the following commitment is expected:
- Minimum 4 hours per week, including meeting time and reading/responding
to mailing list;
- Remain current on the w3c-wai-ua mailing list (mailing list
archive) and respond in a timely manner to postings on mailing
list;
- Participate in remote meetings or send regrets to Chair;
- Participate in face-to-face meetings or send regrets to the Chair;
- Remain aware of related work in other WAI Working Groups.
- 20% Matt May --Team contact and editor.
Information about how to join the Working
Group is available on the Web.
Jon Gunderson, Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services University
of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, Working Group Chair (jongund@uiuc.edu)
Matt May, Team Contact (mcmay@w3.org)
Judy Brewer, WAI Domain Lead (jbrewer@w3.org)
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