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WCAG2ICT Task Force

Announcements

An updated Working Draft of Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies (WCAG2ICT) is now available for review. Please see important background information in the Call for Review: Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web ICT e-mail. Comments are welcome through 15 February 2013.

Meetings

Teleconferences

• Tuesdays at 10:00a.m. US Eastern Daylight Time (14:00 UTC while North America in Daylight Savings Time)
• Fridays at 10:00a.m. US Eastern Daylight Time (14:00 UTC while North America in Daylight Savings Time)

Teleconferences are conducted on the Zakim bridge, +1.617.761.6200. The conference passcode is 2428 (2ICT). In addition to the U.S. phone number, it is possible to join the teleconferences over "SIP" voice over IP (VOIP): sip:002428@voip.w3.org.

Teleconference meetings are supported by IRC chat for minute taking and resource sharing. Use the W3C IRC server irc.w3.org:6665 channel #wcag2ict, irc://irc.w3.org:6665/wcag2ict.

• SIP help
• IRC help

Minutes

• Information Session 2012.05.18

Face to face meetings

This Task Force does not currently anticipate holding face-to-face meetings.

Current Work

The primary effort of this Task Force will be to develop documentation describing how to apply WCAG 2.0 and its principles, guidelines, and success criteria to non-Web Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). As part of this work, the Task Force will also review WCAG 2.0 Conformance in the context of how it might apply to non-web ICT. The resulting Working Group Note will include a success-criteria-by-success-criteria discussion of applying WCAG 2.0 to non-Web ICT, including their interface components and platforms, and the extent to which WCAG Conformance is meaningful to non-Web ICT.

Publications

The WCAG2ICT TF periodically publishes formal drafts of its documents to the W3C Technical Reports page. These documents progress through a series of stages (see How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process) and the group seeks and responds to comments on these stable versions. Note that the output of this task force will consist of one or more W3C Working Group Notes and will not progress through all the stages of a formal specification.

WCAG2ICT publications are also available as editors' snapshots, which may be more current but are less stable than Technical Reports. These are generally used to prepare documents for review prior to formal publication.

The following publications are available from the WCAG2ICT TF:

• Initial Editors' Draft of WCAG2ICT TF document: https://sites.google.com/site/wcag2ict/
• Latest W3C Editors' Draft of Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies (WCAG2ICT)
• Latest formal public version of Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies (WCAG2ICT)

In addition, the following materials are linked for the Task Force's reference:

• Current M-376 Draft and invitation to comment: http://www.mandate376.eu/
• Side-by-side of WCAG 2.0 and US Access Board 2011 ANPRM: https://sites.google.com/site/wcag2ict/cross-cutting-issues-and-notes/wcagvsteitacvs2010anprm

Participation

The WCAG2ICT Task Force is part of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG). It is therefore necessary to join the WCAG WG to participate in the Task Force. The WCAG participation page provides instructions to join as a representative of a W3C Member organization or as an Invited Expert. If you apply as an Invited Expert, please indicate in your application that you wish to join the WCAG WG in order to participate in the WCAG2ICT Task Force, and provide information about your relevant experience.

Once you are a participant of the WCAG WG, you may join the Task Force by sending an e-mail request to Michael Cooper.

About the WCAG2ICT TF

Contacts

• WCAG2ICT TF Co-Facilitators: Andi Snow-Weaver <andisnow@us.ibm.com>, Mike Pluke
• WCAG2ICT TF W3C Staff Contacts: Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>, Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>

Charter

The WCAG2ICT Task Force Work Statement outlines the goals, work methods, and requirements for participation. This activity is conducted by the W3C as part of its Web Accessibility Initiative.

Mailing Lists

• The public-wcag2ict-tf list is for technical and administrative discussion of current work.
• The public-wcag2ict-comments list is used to receive comments from the public and to archive group responses.

Infrastructure

The WCAG2ICT TF uses the following tools to facilitate its work:

• Draft documents are initially maintained in the WCAG2ICT Google Site.
• Additional group-edited resources are available in the wiki.
• Issues and actions on members are recorded in the publicly readable Tracker.
• Public comments and responses are processed in the WCAG comment tracker.
• Web-based surveys (WBS) are used to collect feedback and test consensus).

Participants

Current participants in the WCAG2ICT TF

Document Information

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