Presentation Overview
- Introduction to W3C and WAI
- W3C Accessibility Guidelines
- Requirements for the Ageing?
- WAI-AGE: Bridging the Gaps
- An Invitation to Collaboration
World Wide Web Consortium, W3C
Leading the Web to Its Full Potential...
- International vendor-neutral industry consortium (currently ~400 Members)
- Evolution and interoperability of the Web:
for everyone, everywhere on every thing
- Operates from: MIT, ERCIM, and Keio
- Develops key Web technologies such as:
HTML, CSS, XML, SVG, SMIL, ...
Web Accessibility Initiative, WAI
Operates under the W3C Process to provide:
- Accessibility support in W3C technologies
- Guidelines for implementing accessibility
- Methods for evaluating accessibility
- Conducting education and outreach
- Coordinating with research and development
Web Accessibility Guidelines
W3C maintains three accessibility guidelines:
- Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG)
- User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG)
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Guidelines Relationship
Other Resources on Accessibility
Additional resources support the guidelines:
- Evaluation methodologies and approaches
- Developers, tools, books, videos, guidance
- Best practices, design patterns, experience
- Implementation plans, policies, case studies
...Web accessibility is a well established field
Requirements for the Ageing Community?
Design guidelines and resources for the ageing community are less coherent:
- Not well understood by Web & tool developers
- Not well understood by industry and operators
- ...less adoption and potentially fragmentation
WAI-AGE Project: Bridging the Gap
Web Accessibility Initiative – Ageing Education and Harmonization (WAI-AGE):
- Reviewing existing literature and resources
- Inform and disseminate finding within W3C
- Provide educational resources for industry
- Provide educational resources for developers
- Promote increased standards harmonization
The WAI-AGE Project is funded by the European Commission under FP-6 of the Information Society Technologies (IST).
