Web Accessibility Initiative2016 UpdateAndrew Arch - @amja

WAI Education & Outreach Working Group

Integrated Accessibility Standards

Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/

Accessibility Guidelines 3.0 ATAG and UAAG working groups no

longer exist AG 3.0 proposes to incorporate aspects

of authoring tool and user agent accessibility

More information at Accessibility Guidelines Working Group Charter [Proposed]

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WCAG 2.1 Proposed for development next year

• WCAG 2.0 under exploration Will incorporate work of

• Cognitive Accessibility task force• Low Vision task force• Mobile Accessibility task force

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WCAG 2.0 clarifications Techniques for WCAG 2.0 Understanding WCAG 2.0

• Both updated October 2016• 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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Accessibility Conformance T/F Started as a community group Formed under the WCAG working group Objective is to “develop a framework

and repository of test rules, to promote a unified interpretation of WCAG 2.0 among different web accessibility test tools”

More info on the WAI ACT page

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WAI videos released Web Accessibility Perspectives videos

explore the impact of accessibility for people with disabilities and the benefits for everyone

10 web accessibility topics with short videos, brief descriptions, and links to learn more

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Graphics accessibility First Public Working Draft of 

• Graphics Accessibility API Mappings Updated Working Drafts of 

• SVG Accessibility API Mappings • WAI-ARIA Graphics Module 

Released for review – September 2016

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WAI ARIA WAI-ARIA

1.0 Authoring Practices and Primer retired (July 2016)

Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1 now Candidate Recommendation (Oct 2016)

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WCAG 2.0 Quickref How to Meet WCAG 2.0: A customizable

quick reference updated (March 2016)

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WCAG EM reporting tool WCAG-EM Report Tool: Website Accessi

bility Evaluation Report Generator updated (March 2016)

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Accessibility Evaluation Tools Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List

released (March 2016)

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UAAG 2.0 User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 UAAG 2.0 Reference: Explanations, Exa

mples, and Resources• Published as Working Group Notes

(Dec 2015)

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Digital Publishing Interest Group Digital Publishing and Accessibility in W

3C Documents• W3C Interest Group Note 03 May

2016 Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0

• W3C Working Draft 17 March 2016

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International Digital Publishing Forum IDPF merges with W3C

• W3C and IDPF Explore Plans to Combine (May 2016)

• IDPF Members Approve Plan to Combine with W3C (Nov 2016)

IDPF materials• EPUB 3 Accessibility Guidelines (Aug

2016)

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WAI Highlights Archives WAI Interest Group

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

• WAI-IG mailing list archives and subscription information

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