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Announcements

• Open position: Web Accessibility Specialist (Europe)
• Open position: Web Accessibility Engineer
• WAI-ACT Project
• Get WAI Announcements

Events, Meetings, Presentations

• At W3C Meetup in Ottawa in Ontario, Canada on 24 May 2012: "W3C Web Accessibility Initiative" presentation by Michael
• At ICCHP in Linz, Austria 11-13 July 2012:
  • "Web Accessibility in Advanced Technologies" session co-chaired by Shadi
  • "Website Accessibility Metrics" session chaired by Shadi
  • "Web Accessibility Challenges" panel chaired by Shadi
• At PSEWEB Canada's University & College Digital Marketing Conference in Halifax, Canada on 17 July 2012: "Embracing Accessibility – Go for the Carrots" keynote by Shawn

[WAI Presentations]
[Past WAI Events]

Documents in Progress

The WAI Interest Group (WAI IG) page lists documents in progress, such as accessibility guidelines WAI-ARIA 1.0, UAAG 2.0, and ATAG 2.0.

Highlights

Indie UI: New Independent User Interface Working Group

Today W3C WAI launched the new Independent User Interface (Indie UI) Working Group to develop a way for user actions to be communicated to web applications. This will make it easier for web applications to work with a wide range of devices, including assistive technologies (AT). To learn more, see the Indie UI e-mail.    (2012-May-22)

Calling All Authoring Tool Developers: ATAG 2 for You

WAI encourages developers of web authoring tools (content management systems, HTML editors, social networking apps, and more) to start using Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines ATAG 2.0 Working Draft. It's in Last Call Working Draft stage, which means we think it's stable, yet it might change somewhat based on feedback and implementation experience. See:

• ATAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft published e-mail
• ATAG Overview
• How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process

Please send any comments on this Last Call Working Draft by 5 June 2012.    (2012-April-10)

Call for Papers: Mobile Accessibility Symposium

The Research and Development Working Group (RDWG) will hold an online symposium to explore mobile accessibility challenges, existing resources, and areas for future research and development. The Call for Papers is open until 7 May 2012. See Call for Papers: Mobile Accessibility - Online Symposium e-mail.    (2012-April-05)

Accessibility Evaluation Methodology First Draft

WAI invites you to review the First Public Working Draft of Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) that was published today. For more information, see the WCAG-EM Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology Draft Published e-mail. Please send any comments on this early draft by 27 April 2012.    (2012-March-27)

Share the news: How to Make Your Presentations Accessible to All is updated

How to Make Presentations Accessible to All helps you make presentations, meetings, conferences, etc. accessible to all of your potential audience, including people with disabilities and others. We welcome your help telling others about this resource. See more in the blog post: Make Your Presentations Accessible to All updated - share the news.    (2012-Feb-20)

BAD to Good Updated: Demo shows web accessibility barriers fixed

The Before and After Demonstration (BAD) shows an inaccessible website and a retrofitted version of the same website with the accessibility barriers fixed. BAD is especially useful for presentations. See more in the BAD accessibility demo updated - share the news e-mail.    (2012-Jan-31)

First Draft of Media Accessibility User Requirements

We invite you to comment on the First Public Working Draft of Media Accessibility User Requirements that describes the accessibility requirements of people with disabilities with respect to audio and video on the Web, particularly in the context of HTML5. See Call for Review: Media Accessibility User Requirements email. Please send comments by 9 March 2012.    (2012-Jan-03)

WAI-ACT: Cooperation, Implementation, Evaluation, Research

WAI invites you to participate in the new WAI-ACT Project to help develop:

• An expanded framework for open cooperation among individuals and organizations,
• Technical guidance on implementing web accessibility,
• A harmonized methodology for evaluating website accessibility,
• Coordinated contribution to an eAccessibility research agenda.

See WAI-ACT Project: Accessibility Cooperation, Implementation, Evaluation, and Research e-mail and WAI-ACT Project page to learn about this European Commission (EC)-funded project.   (2011-Nov-16)

Eval Task Force: Guidance on evaluating web accessibility

WAI is starting a WCAG 2.0 Evaluation Methodology Task Force to develop more comprehensive guidance on evaluating web accessibility. The Evaluation Task Force will develop an internationally harmonized methodology for evaluating websites' conformance to WCAG 2.0. Learn more about it from the Web Accessibility Evaluation and Testing e-mail.   (2011-July-13)

WAI-ARIA On the Move: Implementation Testing Underway

We are excited to announce that Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0 was published as a W3C Candidate Recommendation on 18 January 2011. The Candidate Recommendation stage means that there is broad consensus on the technical content, and we are gathering WAI-ARIA implementations. Please see additional information in:

• WAI-ARIA 1.0 Candidate Recommendation in Implementation and Testing e-mail
• Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) moves to Candidate Recommendation (CR) blog post
• How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process
• WAI-ARIA Overview

If you are interested in sharing implementation experience, please let us know before 25 February 2011.    (2011-Jan-18)

Working Together for Better Accessibility

To help and encourage developers and users working together, WAI has updated the following documents:

• Contacting Organizations about Inaccessible Websites (primarily for users)
• Involving Users in Web Projects for Better, Easier Accessibility (primarily for project managers, designers, developers, editors, and others involved in all types of web projects)
  
• Involving Users in Evaluating Web Accessibility (for those evaluating accessibility)

See Updated Resources Encourage Working Together for Better Accessibility e-mail for more information.    (2010-April-22)