Update on W3CWAI including WCAG 2'0

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Update on W3C/WAI including WCAG 2.0

• Judy Brewer, WAI Director
• Open Seminar on Information Accessibility
• Tokyo, Japan, June 19 2008

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Content

• W3C and WAI
• WAI Guidelines
• WAI-ARIA
• WAI-AGE
• Benefits of Harmonization
• Participation Opportunities
• Resources

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World Wide Web Consortium
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World Wide Web Consortium

• International, vendor-neutral consortium
• Develops core standards for Web
• Five main domains/divisions of technical work
• Host for Asia Keio University
• Includes Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

• WCAG 2.0

• WCAG 2.0 Candidate Recommendation
• 30 April 2008 stable draft
• Inviting testing of WCAG 2.0
• in diverse Web sites and applications
• Evaluating conformance
• assess understandability, feasibility
• Adjusting at-risk items
• listed in status section

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WCAG 2.0 Completion Steps

• Public Working Drafts (already)
• Last Call Working Drafts (already)
• Candidate Recommendation (current)
• Proposed Recommendation (3Q 2008?)
• W3C Recommendation (4Q 2008?)
• (completed Web standard)
• authorized translations...

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WCAG 2.0 Overview

• Improvements
• more precisely testable
• technology-neutral
• fewer constraints for developers
• improved accessibility support
• Structure
• 4 principles, 12 guidelines
• 60 success criteria
• 3 levels

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WCAG 2.0 Supporting Materials

• Techniques for WCAG 2.0
• sufficient, additional, common failures, test
  procedures
• How to Meet WCAG 2.0
• customizable reference
• Understanding WCAG 2.0
• intent, examples, resources, techniques, key
  terms
• Test samples, procedures

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Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines

• ATAG 2.0

• ATAG 2.0 Working Draft
• Accessibility of authoring interface
• Production of accessible content
• Covers all kinds of authoring tools
• HTML editors
• content management systems
• blogging wiki software
• Additional working drafts expected

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User Agent Accessibility Guidelines

• UAAG 2.0

• UAAG 2.0 First Public Working Draft
• Synchronize with WCAG ATAG 2.0
• Update technologies covered
• Better address specific problems
• interoperability with assistive technology
• support for rich media
• keyboard support

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WAI-ARIA

• Accessible Rich Internet Applications

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WAI-ARIA

• WAI-ARIA
• Overview, Primer, Best Practices, FAQ
• Making dynamic Web content accessible
• Ajax, DHTML, other dynamic technologies
• Accessibility of widgets, navigation, drag
  drop...
• Nearing Last Call Working Draft
• WCAG 2.0 Techniques support WAI-ARIA

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WAI-AGE

• Ageing Education Harmonisation

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WAI-AGE

• Review compare needs of older Web users
• parallel needs of users with disabilities
• terminology, audience different
• Web Accessibility for Older Users A Literature
  Review
• Educational materials
• industry-focused
• user-focused

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Accessibility Mobile Web
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Accessibility Mobile Web

• Relationship between Mobile Web, WCAG 1.0, 2.0
• cross-mapping of provisions
• Shared user experiences
• people with disabilities mobile Web users

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Benefits of Harmonization
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Benefits of Harmonization

• Standards harmonization accelerates Web
  accessibility by
• providing unified market for authoring and
  evaluation tools
• enabling shared training resources
• eliminating conflicting requirements on
  developers
• W3C/WAI thanks JIS for extensive review input
• during development of WCAG 2.0

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Participation Opportunities
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Participation Opportunities

• Promote
• awareness
• implementation
• harmonization
• Implement WCAG, ATAG, UAAG
• Review and comment on draft documents
• Provide training and evaluation
• Participate in W3C/WAI working groups

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Resources

• www.w3.org/WAI/
• WAI guidelines
• Introducing, managing, evaluating accessibility
• WAI Working Groups, about WAI
• Translations of WAI documents