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Change Log: Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization

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This page records old change requests and changes made to the draft WAI resource suite Presenting the Case for Web Accessibility. Please send additions or corrections to wai-eo-editors@w3.org.

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NOTE: Change log for "Implementation Plan for Web Accessibility" has moved to http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/impl/changelog and changes to "Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility" are also now in that log. The most recent changelog for this documents is at www.w3.org/WAI/EO/changelogs/cl-bcase-update


Changelog

Changes from Version 1.0 to Version 1.1, January 2008


About "business case" resource suite

Audience

Approach

Since each organization has different motivations, we cannot write one master business case that will apply to everyone. Instead, this resource suite is like a cafeteria where people can take what best applies to them and create their own customized business case. As such, the content will include:

We will avoid overlap in information between this resource suite and other WAI resources as well as between pages of this resource suite. This is a bit tricky because several aspects of Web accessibility have benefits in more than one area. For those cases, we will cover it in one page and link to that page from the others, rather than repeating the information.


Review Notes as of 9 August 2005

Overview, Social Factors, Legal and Policy Factors, Financial Factors, Technical Factors

status:


[DONE] 20 August 2005

[DONE] 15 August 2005

[DONE] 12 August 2005

[DONE] 11 August 2005

[DONE] 8-9 August 2005

[DONE] Additional changes made 12 April - 12 May 2004

[DONE] Changes from 2 April 2004

[DONE] Overview

[DONE] Additional changes made 1 April 2004

Changes requested 26 January 2004

[DONE] Review Notes from 15 March

[DONE] Social Factors

  1. [DONE] General question on Checkpoint listings: Are the ones that are listed good ones to list? Should others be listed? For example, in "Access for People with Low Bandwidth Connections to the Internet and Older Technologies" section should there be any for image maps?
  2. [DONE] Not list all screen reader related checkpoints: In the "Web Accessibility Benefits People with and without Disabilities" section we list the relevant WCAG 1.0 checkpoints. The last paragraph under, "Access for People with Low Literacy and Speakers of Other Languages" says something like, "In addition, accessible sites can be read and navigated by screen readers (for people who are blind) and people who cannot read can benefit from listening to sites." [might have been edited since] Because the list of relevant WCAG checkpoints is so very long (WCAG 1.0 Checkpoint 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 3.1, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 6.1, ... and several more), editor suggests not listing them here. Thoughts?
  3. [DONE] Not list checkpoints that have "until user agents" clause that many in WCAG WG consider deprecated: In the "Access for People with Low Bandwidth Connections to the Internet and Older Technologies" section, only list those checkpoints which are still valid with modern browsers as well, not the checkpoints that have "until user agent" clause and are considered deprecated by many. Thoughts?

[DONE] Legal and Policy Factors

  1. [DONE] Repetition between main sections:
    The "Considerations for Different Types of Organizations" section seems too repetitive with the questions in the first section.
    1. Should the information be separated differently between the sections? Should more or less be repeated in both sections?
    2. Should the first question "Is Web accessibility required for this type of organization?" include all the information from the bottom section ("Considerations for Different Types of Organizations") (and the question "Are there other Web accessibility policies the organization should comply with?" -- note that the total would be much shorter becase there is a lot of repetition between the first question and the bottom section, as well as within the subsections at the bottom.
    3. Or is it OK as is?
  2. [DONE] Do any government policies require non-government sites be accessible?
    Is this statement true: "Some government policies require industry and non-governmental organization (NGO) Web sites to be accessible. "
  3. [DONE] Please review carefully the new section:
    Addressing Multiple Standards or Guidelines

[DONE] Additional changes made 13-24 March 2004

[DONE] Changes requested 1 March 2004

[DONE] All pages

[DONE] Overview

[DONE] Social page

[DONE] Financial page

[DONE] Technical page

[DONE] Legal and Policy page

Changes requested 6 February 2004

[done slh] Changes requested 30 January 2004

Social Factors page: http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/soc.html

[DONE] Changes requested 9 January 2004

Social Factors page: http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/soc.html

all pages

[DONE] Changes made 7 January 2004

Social Factors page: http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/soc.html

[DONE] Changes from 7 November 2003 discussion

http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/econ.html

[DONE] Changes from 24 October 2003 discussion

http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/econ.html

[DONE] Changes from 24 September 2003 discussion

http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/econ.html

[DONE] Changes from 19 September 2003 discussion

http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/Overview.html

Throughout entire suite

[DONE] Changes made 18 September 2003

http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/Overview.html

Changes from 1 August 2003 discussion

http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/soc.html#intro

Changes from 16 July 2003 discussion

On Social Factors page, based on http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/soc-new.html

section: Introduction (changes made in document at: http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/soc.html)

section: Access for People with Disabilities

Other areas

Change requests from 16 May 2003

Additional changes 15 May 2003

Change requests from 2 May 2003

On Legal and Policy page http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/pol.html

Additional changes 1 May 2003

Change requests from 25 April 2003

On Legal and Policy page http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/pol.html

Throughout entire suite

Change requests from 28 March 2003

Throughout entire suite

On Overview page http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/

On Benefits page http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/econ.html#benefits

Change requests from 3 March 2003

On Overview page http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/

Introduction section

Considerations for Different Environments section

Assembling a Business Case section:

In entire suite

On Policy page http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/pol.html

On Economic page http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/econ.html

On Social page http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/soc.html

Access for People with Disabilites section

Access for Employee with Disabilites section

Access for Older People section

Access for... Language section

On Technical page http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/tech.html


Change requests from 1 November 2002

Change requests from 9 August 2002

Change requests from 24 March 2002

Change requests from 1 March, 2002

Change requests from 2 November 2001

Change requests from 12 October 2001

Change requests from 5 October 2001

Change requests from 5 September 2001

Change requests from 24 August 2001

Change requests from 17 August 2001

Change requests from 10 August

Change notes/requests from 3 August

Change requests from 1 August discussion

Change requests from 27 July discussion

Change requests from 20 July discussion

Change requests from 13 July 2001 discussion

Change requests from 11 July 2001 discussion

Change requests from 6 July 2001 discussion

Change requests from 29 June 2001 discussion

Change requests from 15 June 2001 discussion

Change requests from 8 June 2001 discussion

Change requests from 6 June 2001 discussion

Change requests from 1 June 2001 discussion

Change requests from 25 May 2001 discussion

Change requests from 18 May 2001 discussion

Change requests from 11 May 2001 discussion

Change requests from 20 April 2001 discussion

[need to incorporate discussion from minutes]

Change requests from 6 April 2001 discussion

DONE Change requests and writing commitments from March 30, 2001 discussion

DONE Change requests AND WRITING COMMITMENTS from March 25, 2001 discussion

Change requests from February 23, 2001 discussion

Change requests from February 16, 2001 discussion

Change requests from February 9, 2001 discussion

Change requests from January 26, 2001 discussion

Change requests from Oct 6, 2000 discussion

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