Web Accessibility Initiative2014/15 Update

Andrew Arch - @amja

Member, WAI Education & Outreach Working Group

24 March 2015

Canberra Web Accessibility & Inclusive Design meetup

Integrated Accessibility Guidelines

As a reminder, the next slide introduces the three WAI standards and how they relate:• WCAG

• UAAG

• ATAG

The slide also includes W3C technologies –HTML, CSS, etc plus WAI-ARIA and IndieUI

The graphics are drawn from:

• Essential Components of Web Accessibility

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Integrated Accessibility Standards

W3C process

How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process

• Working Draft(s)

• Last Call Working Draft

• Candidate Recommendation

• Proposed Recommendation

• W3C Recommendation (Web Standard)

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2014-15 activity

What has the W3C and WAI done this past year?

HTML5

Became a Technical Recommendation in October 2014

Includes MathML – Browser support is increasing

HTML 5.1 is under active development

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HTML5 accessibility

Using WAI-ARIA in HTML (June 2014)

HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives - draft updated (Oct 2014)

HTML5 Image Description extension (longdesc) – W3C Rec (Feb 2015)

HTML5 feature accessibility support in Windows Browsers (Nov 2014)

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WCAG 2.0 clarifications

Techniques for WCAG 2.0

Understanding WCAG 2.0

• Both last updated February 2015

• Understanding Techniques for WCAG Success Criteria

• “Techniques are informative — that means they are not required.” However, many organisations require them, and most tools use them as the basis for testing.

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WCAG 2.0 Quick Reference

How to Meet WCAG 2.0 quick reference

• Updated September 2014

Redesign (mockup) of How to Meet WCAG 2.0: A customizable quick reference

• Work underway announced February 2015

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WCAG 2.0 internationalisation

Additional authorised translations released

• Estonian – December 2013

• Portuguese (PT & BR) – October 2014

• Simplified Chinese – October 2014

WCAG 2.0 Translations has a list of other completed and planned translations

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UAAG 2.0

User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 2.0

UAAG 2.0 Reference: Explanations, Examples, and Resources

• Updated working drafts released for both in September 2014

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ATAG 2.0

Implementation testing – Candidate Recommendation

• Ongoing since November 2013

• Call for volunteers to help test authoring tools for conformance to ATAG success criteria

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IndieUI

Independent User Interface (IndieUI)• A way for user actions to

be communicated to web applications independently of the device

• Events for User Interface Independence (updated May 2014)

• User Context for web interface preferences (updated June 2014)

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WAI-ARIA

WAI-ARIA 1.0 finalised as Technical Recommendation (March 2014)

WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent ImplementationGuide (March 2014)

WAI-ARIA 1.0 Authoring Practices (Editors' Draft - April 2014)

WAI-ARIA 1.1 commenced drafting (June 2014)

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Video

Timed Text Working Group

• Part of the Video in the Web Activity

• WebVTT: The Web Video Text Tracks Format -First Public Working Draft published (Nov 2014)

• WebVTT files provide captions or subtitles for video content

• Used for marking up external text track resources in connection with the HTML5 <track> element

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Web Accessibility Testing

Website Accessibility Conformance Methodology (WCAG-EM)

• Finalised – August 2014

• Five steps:

1. Define the scope

2. Explore the target website

3. Select a representative sample

4. Audit the selected sample

5. Report the evaluation findings

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Testing cont …

WCAG-EM Report Tool: Accessibility Evaluation Report Generator

• V1.0 released March 2015

• Helps generate website accessibility evaluation reports according to WCAG-EM

• Does not undertake testing – enables recording of your testing activities

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Testing cont …

Easy Checks – A first review of web accessibility

• Finalised December 2014

• Nine easy things for non-experts to check

Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List

• Call for tool information – December 2014

• Updated database of tools• 48 tools and growing

• 38 WCAG2 specific tools listed

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Training resources

Tutorials for developers

• Published

• Images

• Tables

• Forms

• In development

• Carousels

• Menus

• Page Structure

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WAI groups

Digital Publishing interest group

• part of the Digital Publishing Activity

• Bridging the Web and Digital Publishing -presentation (October 2014)

• Bridging the Web and Digital Publishing: EPUBWEB (November 2014)

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WAI groups cont …

Mobile Accessibility Task Force

• Develop specific mobile guidance related to WCAG and UAAG

• Mobile a11y resources• iOS, Android, Windows 8 Phone, Microsoft Surface,

Blackberry, Firefox OS

• Mobile Accessibility - How WCAG 2.0 and Other W3C/WAI Guidelines Apply• Call for review February 2015

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WAI groups cont …

Cognitive Accessibility Task Force

• Develop specific guidance related to cognitive and learning disabilities

• First Public Working Draft of Cognitive Accessibility User Research

• Published January 2015

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WAI groups cont …

SVG Accessibility Task Force

• Identification of the accessibility requirements and management of the progress of accessibility solutions in SVG2

• First Public Working Draft of SVG Accessibility API Mappings

• Published February 2015

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WAI groups cont …

W3C Community Groups

• open forums … to connect with W3C's international community of Web experts

• Colour Blindness Accessibility (Nov 2014)

• Existing accessibility groups:• Accessible Infographics

• Accessible SVG

• CSS Accessibility

• Mobile Accessibility

• WAI-Engage: Web Accessibility

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R&D Symposiums

Accessible e-Learning

• 16 December 2013

Accessible Way-Finding Using Web Technologies

• 3 December 2014

Previous Symposia Reports

• WAI Research and Development Working Group

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Keeping up-to-date

WAI home page

WAI Highlights Archives

WAI Interest Group

• A public group with a mailing list for general discussion on Web accessibility

• WAI-IG mailing list archives

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