DRAFT Timeline for WCAG 2.0

This is proposed to the WCAG WG for review and does not represent WCAG WG consensus.

October

• initial conformance scheme
• updated requirements document (with consensus items)
• publish 1st draft of HTML techniques document
• update CSS techs with comments received since last publication

November

• F2F in Melbourne
• finish review of comments on august public working draft
• publish a new public draft
• turn focus towards testing and techniques. determine structure of technology-specific success criteria.
• further development of test files and begin testing guideline/checkpoint success criteria against new conformance scheme
• begin tackling long list of open issues
• new draft of PDF techniques

December

• publish SVG techniques
• begin testing WART on sites and test files
• update client-side scripting techniques
• continue tackling open issues
• WAI glossary

January

• publish another public working draft
• SMIL techniques
• continue development on test files and collecting data through WART
• finish tackling current list of open issues - new drafts of HTML and CSS techniques

February

• collect comments on public working draft
• continue testing against conformance scheme
• update techniques documents as needed

March

• face to face before csun (CSUN conference - present about WCAG 2.0?)
• testing.
• write executive summary
• incorporate comments into last call draft?

April

• move WCAG 2.0 to last call?

May

• process last call comments
• move to candidate recommendation? (WWW2002 conference - present about WCAG 2.0?)

June

• write candidate recommendation exist criteria report and present to director
• move to Proposed Recommendation?
• another F2F meeting (Europe)

July/August

• process PR comments
• publish WCAG 2.0 as a W3C Recommendation?

$Date: 2001/10/16 23:53:02 $ Wendy Chisholm on behalf of WCAG WG