Technology Standards

• Build on standards
• Ensure accessibility part of standards
• Standardize technologies as they mature

XML Accessibility Guidelines

• XAG
• Provide semantics
• Specific accessibility supports
• Provide accessible UI elements
• Document the accessibility features

WAI-ARIA

• WAI-ARIA: Accessible Rich Internet Applications
  • Roles for Accessible Rich Internet Applications
  • States and Properties Module for Accessible Rich Internet Applications
• Compatibility with Accessibility APIs
• Designed with extensibility and future compatibility in mind

Tool Standards

• User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
  • Expose accessibility features
  • User control
  • Use platform APIs
• Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
  • User interface
  • Generated content

Authoring Standards

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
  • Understanding
  • Techniques
• WAI Education and Outreach Working Group
• Evaluation

Research

• Upcoming technologies
• How to provide accessibility
• Long-term view, benefits of accessibility built into technologies

Advocacy

• Awareness education
• Government and policy
• Effective developer training and professionalization

Thank you

Michael Cooper
cooper@w3.org