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From: Judy Brewer <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:30:44 -0400
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Subject: WCAG 2.0 Candidate Recommendation Ready to Test Drive
Following is an announcement from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
about the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Candidate
Recommendation. Additional announcements related to this release are also
available:
* W3C Press Release: W3C Invites Developers to Implement WCAG 2.0
http://www.w3.org/2008/04/wcag20cr-pressrelease
* W3C Blog Post: WCAG 2.0 takes a giant leap forward Now it's your turn
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/04/wcag20_cr_april2008.html
Dear All:
WCAG 2.0 Candidate Recommendation Ready to Test Drive
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group is excited to
announce the publication of WCAG 2.0 as a W3C Candidate Recommendation on
30 April. WCAG 2.0 explains how to make Web sites, applications, and other
content accessible to people with disabilities, and many elderly users.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-WCAG20-20080430/
Candidate Recommendation (CR) is a major step in the W3C standards
development process; it signals that there is broad consensus in the
Working Group and among public reviewers on the technical content of WCAG
2.0. The W3C Process stages are described in:
How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process
* http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/w3c-process
The primary purpose of this CR stage is for developers and designers
to "test drive" WCAG 2.0 to demonstrate that WCAG 2.0 can be implemented
in Web sites. WAI encourages a broad range of Web sites and Web
applications to use WCAG 2.0 at this stage, and share implementation
experience.
For information on submitting your implementations, see:
* WCAG 2.0 Candidate Recommendation Implementation Information
* http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/CR/
If you plan to provide implementations, please let us know your intentions
by *23 May 2008*. Actual implementations are due by *30 June 2008*.
It is important to note that some WCAG 2.0 requirements are at risk; that
is, they may not be included if there are not sufficient implementations.
Items at risk are listed under "Items at Risk" in:
* http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-WCAG20-20080430/#status_risk
While the focus of this stage is to collect implementations, the comment
form and email address are still available from:
Instructions for Commenting on WCAG 2.0 Documents
* http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/comments/
The different WCAG 2.0 documents that the WCAG Working Group updated with
this publication are introduced in:
Overview of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Documents
* http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag20.php
A key tool for using WCAG 2.0 documents, which was previously called
the "Quick Reference", is:
How to Meet WCAG 2.0: A customizable quick reference to WCAG 2.0
requirements
* http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/
For more information about the Candidate Recommendation status of WCAG 2.0
and the changes since the last publication, see:
"Status of this Document" section of WCAG 2.0
* http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-WCAG20-20080430/#status
WCAG 2.0 is part of a series of accessibility guidelines/standards
developed by WAI, which are listed in:
WAI Guidelines and Techniques
* http://www.w3.org/WAI/guid-tech.html
Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid cross-
postings where possible.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you in advance for your help implementing WCAG 2.0.
Regards,
~Shawn Lawton Henry and Judy Brewer
On behalf of:
Loretta Guarino Reid, Co-chair of WCAG WG, and Computer Scientist, Google Inc.
Gregg Vanderheiden, Co-chair of WCAG WG, and
Director of Trace R&D Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Michael Cooper, W3C Team Contact for WCAG WG
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Judy Brewer +1.617.258.9741 http://www.w3.org/WAI
Director, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
MIT/CSAIL Building 32-G526
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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