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Thank You, John

25 March 2008
John Slatin, who was Co-Chair of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group in 2005 and 2006 passed away last night. He will be dearly missed by all of us on the working group both for his contributions and for what he brought to the whole process: his energy, his good humor, his patience and his insight. His loss is a loss to us all and to the field of accessibility as a whole. Thank you John.

For those who want more information, John and his wife Anna have chronicled his experiences on his blog "Leukemia Letters", and information about services will be posted there.

Announcements and Meetings

Public Working Drafts

A WCAG 2.0 Candidate Recommendation was published 30 April 2008. This document is accompanied by other support materials:

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 is the normative document; the rest are supporting documents. At this stage the Working Group seeks implementation experience for WCAG 2.0; see WCAG 2.0 Candidate Recommendation Implementation Information.

Comments on these drafts can be made using the online or downloadable comment form or by email to public-comments-wcag20@w3.org. Please see the publication announcement for details.

WCAG WG Meetings

The WCAG WG meets Thursdays from 4:00 to 6:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time (UTC 20:00 to 22:00) via teleconference bridge: +1 617.761.6200 passcode 9224 ("WCAG"). To find what time this is in your region, please consult the world clock time zone converter.

Task Force Meetings

Additional Information about Meetings

Current Work

WCAG 2.0 Guidelines

This document is a Working Draft. WCAG 1.0 is the stable reference document.

Understanding WCAG 2.0

Techniques for WCAG 2.0

Testing WCAG 2.0

WCAG 2.0 tests are currently being developed by the Test Samples Development Task Force. Please refer to that resource for more information.

Translations of WCAG 2.0

Translations of WCAG 2.0 have been undertaken to increase awareness and facilitate feedback on the drafts. These are unofficial translations of a draft document but are important resources.

WCAG 1.0 Errata

Publications

Related documents not published by the WCAG WG

About WCAG WG

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) is to develop guidelines to make Web content accessible for people with disabilities.

Chair and Contacts

Charter

Task Force Work Statements

Mailing Lists

When using the WCAG WG mailing list:

  1. Treat other list members with respect.
  2. Keep comments within the scope of this group (see WCAG WG Charter).
  3. When raising an issue:
    • provide a clear subject line including the checkpoint(s) it relates to;
    • explain the issue briefly;
    • propose a brief & specific solution;
    • for longer comments, put a summary at the beginning.
  4. When replying:
    • keep your reply comments near the top of a message;
    • only quote essential parts of a previous message;
    • if there are multiple topics, break them into separate emails to facilitate threading and to keep the subject line accurate.
  5. Please send any questions about the WCAG WG mailing list itself to the Chairs or Team Contact, not the whole list.
  6. No soliciting.

Participation

Patent Disclosures

W3C maintains a public list of any patent disclosures made in connection with the deliverables of the group; that page also includes instructions for disclosing a patent.

Additional Information

Related Work