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Announcements

• WAI-ACT Project
• Get WAI Announcements

Events, Meetings, Presentations

• At the M-Enabling Summit 2013 in Washington, DC, USA on 6 June 2013: "Which Standards for Accessible Mobile Phones and Services?" panel with Judy

[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

For Review: User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0 Working Drafts

We invite you to review updated Working Drafts of UAAG 2.0 and Implementing UAAG 2.0, which define how browsers, media players, and other "user agents" should support accessibility for people with disabilities and work with assistive technologies. These Drafts have new examples of how UAAG applies in the mobile environment, an updated conformance section, and new definitions of level A, AA, and AAA. See the Call for Review: User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 e-mail for a summary of changes. Please send comments by 21 June 2013.    (2013-May-23)

Call for Papers: User Modeling for Accessibility Symposium

The Research and Development Working Group (RDWG) will hold an online symposium to explore user modeling for accessibility, an approach for generating and adapting user interfaces to address particular user needs and preferences. See: User Modeling for Accessibility - Online Symposium 15 July 2013. The Call for Papers is open until 6 June 2013.    (2013-May-15)

For Review: WCAG-EM for Conformance Evaluation

WAI invites you to provide feedback on the updated Working Draft of Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM). We are particularly interested in how it works for you in practice. For more information, see the WCAG-EM Overview and the WCAG-EM Call for Review. Please send any comments on this draft by 22 March 2013.    (2013-Feb-26)

For Review: IndieUI Events for Mobile and More

IndieUI defines a way for different user interactions to be translated into simple events and communicated to web applications. (For example, if a user wants to scroll down a page, they might use their finger on a touch screen, or click a scroll bar with a mouse, or use a scroll wheel, or say "scroll down" with a voice command. With IndieUI, these are all sent to the web app as simply: scroll down.)

IndieUI will make it easier for web applications to work in a wide range of contexts — different devices (such as mobile phones and tablets), different assistive technologies (AT), different user needs. With IndieUI, web application developers will have a uniform way to design applications that work for multiple devices and contexts.

We published the First Public Working Draft of IndieUI: Events today. See:

• IndieUI Overview for a short introduction
• IndieUI: Events expands user interface interactions blog post (also invites participation)
• IndieUI: Events 1.0 - Events for User Interface Independence - technical specification
• Mobile Accessibility to learn about related work

Please send comments on this Draft by 22 February 2013.    (2013-Jan-22)

WCAG 2.0 is ISO/IEC 40500 . . .

Mobile Accessibility: Resources Updated . . .

Developing Web Accessibility Presentations and Training: Resource Material . . .

WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices: Updated Guidance . . .

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

BAD to Good Updated: Demo shows web accessibility barriers fixed . . .

WAI-ACT: Cooperation, Implementation, Evaluation, Research . . .

Working Together for Better Accessibility . . .