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Referencing WAI Guidelines and Technical Reports
[previously titled "Linking to WAI Guidelines and Technical Reports"]
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About the doc
Purpose, Goals, Objectives
- Encourage people to use the appropriate URI for different purposes
- Encourage people to link to the Overview pages when appropriate
- Encourage people to not use a version number when appropriate
- Clarify at which URIs content is stable, versus where it will change, especially related to fragments/anchors/targets
Example Use Case:
An authoring tool developer is updating their Help and including links to WCAG, for example, the section on color contrast. They need to know what URI to use for that link.
Audience for this Document
- Everyone linking to WAI /TR/ documents
Notes
- [open] Location in IA (information architecture).
proposal: Under About WAI > More About WAI pages... ?
Consider for next revision (or later version or related documents or other)
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References
Changes & Notes
Note: See "References" section above for meeting minutes and e-mail comments.
Changes on 25 February 2009
several. most in response to the email thread.
Changes from 14 February 2009 teleconference
- changed title from "Linking to WAI Guidelines and Technical Reports" to Referencing WAI Guidelines and Technical Reports"
- throughout changed "link to " to "reference"
- added some clarification
Notes from 13 February 2009 teleconference
- William found the list of links useful and wanted it to be more complete. However, the original intent of the page was not to be a comprehensive list of links.
[OPEN] Consider if we should expand the purpose of this page, or point elsewhere for that. Consider improving the usability and visibility of the WAI Resources annotated list &/or WAI Site Map.
Archive Notes
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