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Announcements and Meetings

WCAG WG Meetings

The WCAG WG meets Thursdays from 4:00 to 5:30 PM ET (UTC 9 p.m.) via teleconference bridge: +1 617.761.6200 passcode 9224 ("WCAG"). To find what time this is in your region, please consult the world clock meeting planner.

Techniques Task Force Meetings

The Techniques Task Force meets Wednesdays from 10:00-11:30 AM ET (UTC 3 p.m.) via teleconference bridge: +1 617.761.6200 passcode 92248 ("WCAG-T"). To find what time this is in your region, please consult the world clock meeting planner.

Additional Information about Meetings

Minutes from previous meetings are available.
Please read "User Instructions for the W3C Zakim Teleconference Bridge"
We use IRC during meetings and for discussion during the week.
- channel: #wai-wcag server: irc.w3.org port: 6665
- More info about irc is available from IRC help.

Current Work

WCAG 2.0

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

Current internal Working Draft - 1 June 2005
Current public Working Draft - 30 June 2005
- public-comments-wcag20 archive
- Changes to the WCAG 2.0 Working Draft
Requirements for WCAG 2.0
Open issues
- WCAG 2.0 Bugzilla
- Issue Tracking for WCAG 2.0
Action items

WCAG 2.0 Techniques

WCAG 2.0 Test Suite

WCAG 2.0 HTML Test Suite - under development and discussion
- HTML Test Suite Status - tracks which tests are next to be reviewed, which have been rejected and approved
DRAFT WCAG 2.0 Implementation Testing Framework
Testing and test suites - old

WCAG 1.0 Errata

Errata in Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
Tables of WCAG 1.0 Errata - does not represent consensus or a commitment to publish a revised WCAG 1.0.

Publications

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0) W3C Recommendation, 5 May 1999.
- Translations of WCAG 1.0
- Errata in Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
Techniques for WCAG 1.0 suite of W3C Notes, 20 September 2000

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

WCAG WG Chairs: Gregg Vanderheiden, John Slatin
WCAG WG Team Contact: Wendy Chisholm

Charter

WCAG WG charter

Mailing Lists

public-comments-wcag20@w3.org - public comments on WCAG 2.0
- Archive of public-comments-wcag20@w3.org mailing list
w3c-wai-gl@w3.org - the primary mailing list of the WCAG WG and Techniques Task Force.
- Archive of w3c-wai-gl mailing list
- Subscribe to w3c-wai-gl - we are revising our subscription process. Contact Wendy Chisholm with questions.

When using the WCAG WG mailing list:

Treat other list members with respect.
Keep comments within the scope of this group (see WCAG WG Charter).
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.
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.
Please send any questions about the WCAG WG mailing list itself to the Chairs or Team Contact, not the whole list.
No soliciting.

Participation

List of Working Group participants
Participation in the WCAG WG. Contact Wendy Chisholm with questions.

Additional Information

Related Work

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Last Updated: $Date: 2005/07/22 16:25:09 $ by Wendy Chisholm

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