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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG)

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Announcements and Meetings

A proposed charter is available for review through 12 July 2010 (Member-only link).

Publications

WCAG 2.0 was published as a W3C Recommendation 11 December 2008. This document is accompanied by other support materials produced by the WCAG Working Group:

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 is the normative document; the rest are supporting documents.

Please view the public comment instructions if you would like to comment to the Working Group. Comments submitted are publicly available in the archive for the WCAG 2.0 public comments mailing list.

WCAG WG Meetings

The WCAG WG meets Thursdays from 4:00 to 5:30 pm Eastern Time (UTC 20:00 to 21:30 during Standard Time; UTC 21:00 to 22:30 during Daylight Time) 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. Please read "User Instructions for the W3C Zakim Teleconference Bridge".

We use IRC during meetings and for discussion during the week. This channel is only for members of the Working Group. IRC server: irc.w3.org:6665, channel #wai-wcag. More info about irc is available from IRC help.

Minutes from previous meetings are available.

Current Work

WCAG 2.0

Guidelines

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. The WCAG 2.0 translations page lists translations that are available at this time.

In addition to the translations of the final document referenced above, unofficial translations of previous drafts are available:

WCAG 1.0

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

The Tests Samples Development Task Force (TSD TF) develops minimal examples of Web content to demonstrate correct and incorrect implementation of WCAG 2.0.

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

In Memoriam: John Slatin

John Slatin, who was Co-Chair of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group in 2005 and 2006, passed away 25 March 2008. He is 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.

John and his wife Anna have chronicled his experiences on his blog "Leukemia Letters". Other information is available from the John Slatin Fund Accessibility Project and the John Slatin Impact Planning Wiki.