WAI DA Update, October 2002
This update provides information on activities of the World Wide Web Consortium's
(W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), for the Web Accessibility Initiative
Design for All (WAI DA) Project in Europe. Please circulate to other mailing
lists as appropriate, avoiding cross-postings where possible.
Contents:
- Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG)
Meeting 7 - 8 November in Copenhagen
- Web Accessibility Initiative Receives Roland Wagner
Award at ICCHP 2002
- New WCAG 2.0 Working Draft Available for Comment
- XML Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Working Draft Available
for Comment
- User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Complete
Candidate Recommendation and Last Call
- About the Web Accessibility Initiative and this
WAI DA Update
1. Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG)
Meeting 7-8 November in Copenhagen
The EOWG will meet on 7 - 8 November 2002, in Copenhagen, Denmark, following
the IST 2002 Conference. The focus of the 7 November session will be on
exchanging information about promotion and implementation of W3C's Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). The 8 November session will include training
on evaluation of Web site accessibility, and demonstrations of training
approaches from others involved in Web accessibility. Information on upcoming
WAI meetings can regularly be found in the News section of the WAI home
page.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/2002/1107-agenda.html
http://www.w3.org/WAI/#News
2. Web Accessibility Initiative Receives Roland Wagner
Award at ICCHP 2002
The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) received the Roland Wagner Award
at the International Conference on Computers Helping People (ICCHP) on 17
July 2002 in Linz, Austria. The award was given by the Austrian Computer
Society, in recognition of WAI's international contributions to making Web
technologies accessible to the broadest possible audience.
http://www.icchp.at/award.html
http://www.icchp.at
http://www.w3.org/News/2002#item104
3. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Working
Draft Available for Comment
Comments are invited on the most recent working draft of the Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. WCAG 2.0 applies to a wider range of Web technologies
than WCAG 1.0, and is intended to be understandable to a more varied audience.
Please note that WCAG 1.0 will remain stable and referenceable for the foreseeable
future. Questions on which the Working Group particularly invites comment
for this draft include ease of comprehension, priority structure, and suitability
for eventual migration from WCAG 1.0.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-WCAG20-20020822/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2002JulSep/0885.html
4. XML Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Working Draft Available
for Comment
The Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) recently published a new
draft of the XML Accessibility Guidelines (XAG). These guidelines explain
how to make new XML applications (such as XHTML or SVG) better support accessibility.
The PFWG maintains a series of documents about XAG's development, including
information on where to send comments.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xag
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/XML/about
5. User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Complete
Candidate Recommendation and Last Call
The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, which address accessibility
of browsers and multimedia players, and their interoperability with assistive
technologies, have completed Candidate Recommendation and Last Call. During
Candidate Recommendation, the Working Group documented implementations of
all of the checkpoints in the guidelines. The Working Group has requested
that the document advance to Proposed Recommendation, and a decision by
W3C may be taken on that shortly. The latest version of the document and
implementation reports are available:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WD-UAAG10-20021003/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/impl-pr2/
6. About the Web Accessibility Initiative and this
WAI DA Update
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is based at the World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C), an international consortium promoting the evolution of the Web. WAI
addresses accessibility of the Web for people with disabilities through
a variety of activities including technical and guidelines development and
educational work. WAI Design for All (WAI DA) is a project of WAI, funded
by the EC Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme, to increase outreach
and localizations of Web accessibility information in Europe. The WAI TIES
Project, with a similar focus on Web accessibility, will be introduced in
the next update. Additional information is available:
W3C http://www.w3.org/
WAI http://www.w3.org/WAI/
WAI Resources http://www.w3.org/WAI/Resources/
WAI DA http://www.w3.org/WAI/waida/
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Regards
Sylvie Duchateau for the WAI DA Project
and
Judy Brewer, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
Last updated 11 October 2002 by Judy Brewer jbrewer @w3.org