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W3CWeb Accessibility initiative

WAI: Strategies, guidelines, resources to make the Web accessible to people with disabilities

WAI Website Information Architecture Update Notes

Pages for review

Links

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On this page:

EOWG telecon minutes:

Face-to-face card sorting - Day 2

By-the-windows Group

Getting Started (1)

  1. Introduction to Web Accessibility
  2. How People with Disabilities Use the Web
    1. ...
    2. ...
    3. ...
  3. Essential Components of Web Accessibility
  4. Web Accessibility and Older People: Meeting the Needs of Ageing Web Users
  5. Web Accessibility FAQ

Guidelines & Techniques (2)

  1. Which WCAG 2 Docs are for You?
  2. Technical Papers
    1. Overview of "Web Accessibility for Older Users: A Literature Review"
    2. Introduction to "Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA" the letters 'captcha' difficult to read on complex background
    3. Proceedings from RDIG Discussion of Making Collaboration Technologies Accessible for Persons with Disabilities
  3. ...

Implementing and Evaluating Accessibility (3)

  1. Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization: Overview
    1. Social Factors
    2. Technical Factors
    3. Financial Factors
    4. Legal & Policy Factors
    5. Resources for Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization
  2. Managing Accessibility
    1. Developing Organizational Policies on Web Accessibility
    2. Implementation Plan for Web Accessibility
    3. Improving the Accessibility of Your Website
    4. Selecting and Using Authoring Tools for Web Accessibility
    5. Selecting Accessibility Professionals
  3. [unnamed category]
    1. Involving Users in Web Projects for Better, Easier Accessibility
    2. Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web: Making a Website Accessible Both for People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices
      1. Shared Web Experiences: Barriers Common to Mobile Device Users and People with Disabilities
      2. Relationship between Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) technical report
    3. Developing Websites for Older People: How WCAG 2.0 Applies
    4. Web Accessibility and Usability
  4. Evaluating Accessibility
    1. Preliminary Review of Websites for Accessibility
    2. Conformance Evaluation of Websites for Accessibility
    3. Involving Users in Web Accessibility Evaluation
    4. Evaluation Approaches for Specific Contexts
    5. Using Combined Expertise to Evaluate Web Accessibility
    6. Template for Accessibility Evaluation Reports
    7. Selecting Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
    8. Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools: Overview
      1. Complete List of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
      2. Simple Search of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
      3. Advanced Search for Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
  5. International Policies
    1. Why Standards Harmonization is Essential to Web Accessibility
    2. International Policies Relating to Web Accessibility

Help Using the Web (4)

  1. Better Web Browsing: Tips for Customizing Your Computer
  2. Contacting Organizations about Inaccessible Websites

Training and Tutorials (5)

  1. Before and After Demonstration
  2. Developing Web Accessibility Presentations and Training
    1. Accessibility Topics
    2. Presentation Outlines
    3. Workshop Outline
    4. How to Make Your Presentations Accessible to All
  3. WAI Presentations
    1. Instructions for the "Components of Web Accessibility" Presentation and Step-by-Step Guide
    2. ...
    3. ...
  4. Handouts and Flyers
    1. ...
  5. Papers, Posts, Podcasts, Interviews, and Articles
    1. Articles on Older Web Users
    2. Older Web Users Briefs
    3. article
    4. ...

About WAI (6)

  1. Overview of WAI slides
  2. WAI Press Releases and Document Release Notes
  3. WAI Groups
  4. Get Involved
    1. Submitting your ideas to WAI
    2. How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C
    3. Using WAI Materials: Permission to Use with Attribution
    4. Referencing and Linking to WAI Documents and Technical Document
    5. Participating in WAI

My WAI (7)

  1. Your WAI
  2. Translations

By-the-screen Group

Getting Started (1)

  1. Introduction to Web Accessibility
  2. Web Accessibility FAQ
  3. Scope of Web Accessibility
    1. Web Accessibility and Usability
    2. Essential Components of Web Accessibility
  4. National [materials]
    1. International Policies Relating to Web Accessibility
    2. Translations
    3. Why Standards Harmonization is Essential to Web Accessibility
  5. How People with Disabilities Use the Web
  6. Web Accessibility and Older People: Meeting the Needs of Ageing Web Users
    1. Old Users Online... article
    2. Articles on Older Web Users
    3. Overview of Literature Review
    4. Older Web Users Briefs

Using the Web (2)

  1. Better Web Browsing
  2. Contacting Organizations about Inaccessible Websites

Managing Accessibility (3)

  1. Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization: Overview
    1. Social Factors
    2. Technical Factors
    3. Financial Factors
    4. Legal & Policy Factors
    5. Resources for Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization
      • case studies
      • ....
  2. Improving the Accessibility of Your Website
  3. Implementation Planning
    1. Implementation Plan for Web Accessibility
    2. Developing Organizational Policies on Web Accessibility
    3. Involving Users in Web Projects for Better, Easier Accessibility
  4. Selecting Accessibility Professionals
  5. Selecting and Using Authoring Tools for Web Accessibility

Guidelines & Techniques (4)

  1. WCAG
    1. Which WCAG 2 Docs are for You?
    2. Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web: Making a Website Accessible Both for People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices
      1. Shared Web Experiences: Barriers Common to Mobile Device Users and People with Disabilities
      2. Relationship between Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) technical report
    3. Developing Websites for Older People: How WCAG 2.0 Applies

Evaluating Accessibility (5)

  1. Involving Users in Web Accessibility Evaluation
  2. Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools: Overview
    1. Selecting Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools [changed: moved here from higher level]
    2. Complete List of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
    3. Simple Search of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
    4. Advanced Search for Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
  3. Using Combined Expertise to Evaluate Web Accessibility
  4. Preliminary Review of Websites for Accessibility
  5. Conformance Evaluation of Websites for Accessibility
    1. Template for Accessibility Evaluation Reports
    2. Evaluation Approaches for Specific Contexts

Explaining Accessibility (6)

  1. Before and After Demonstration
  2. How to Make Your Presentations Accessible to All
  3. WAI Presenting Accessibility
    1. Instructions for the "Components of Web Accessibility" Presentation and Step-by-Step Guide
    2. ...
  4. Developing Web Accessibility Presentations and Training
    1. Accessibility Topics
    2. Presentation Outlines
    3. Workshop Outline
  5. Handouts and Flyers

About WAI (7)

  1. WAI Mission and Organization
  2. WAI Groups
  3. Participating in WAI
    1. Contacting WAI
    2. Submitting ideas to WAI
    3. Translating WAI Documents
  4. How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C
  5. Referencing and Linking to WAI Documents and Technical Document
    1. Using WAI Materials: Permission to Use with Attribution
  6. Papers, Posts, Podcasts, Interviews, and Articles

Your WAI

Face-to-face card sorting - Day 1

By-the-screen-group's headings:

By-the-window-group's headings:

List of existing and potential pages:

  1. Web Accessibility and Older People: Meeting the Needs of Ageing Web Users (intro page)
  2. Developing Websites for Older People: How Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Applies
  3. Better Web Browsing: Tips for Customizing Your Computer
  4. Before and After Demonstration
  5. Web Accessibility and Usability (working title)
  6. Articles on Older Web Users (working title)
  7. Older Web Users Flyer (handout) (working title)
  8. Older Web Users Briefs (working title)
  9. Papers, Posts, Podcasts, Interviews, and Articles (working title)(navigation page)
  10. Which WCAG 2.0 docs are for You? (navigation page)
  11. Your WAI (working title) (lists key WAI resources organized by audience)
  12. Submitting your ideas to WAI (working title)
  13. Web Accessibility FAQ (working title)
  14. Web Accessibility Myths (working title)
  15. Older Users Online: WAI Guidelines Address Older Users Web Experience article
  16. Using WAI Material: Permission to Use with Attribution
  17. Referencing and Linking to WAI Guidelines and Technical Documents
  18. How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process: Milestones and Opportunities to Contribute
  19. Introducing Accessibility (annotated navigation page only)
  20. Introduction to Web Accessibility
  21. Essential Components of Web Accessibility
  22. How People with Disabilities Use the Web
    1. Stories of Web Users - How People with Disabilities Use the Web
    2. Diversity of Web Users - How People with Disabilities Use the Web
    3. Web Browsing Innovations - How People with Disabilities Use the Web
    4. Accessibility Principles - How People with Disabilities Use the Web
  23. Contacting Organizations about Inaccessible Websites
  24. Handouts (navigation page)
  25. Managing Accessibility (annotated navigation page only)
  26. Policy Resources (annotated navigation page only)
  27. Why Standards Harmonization is Essential to Web Accessibility
  28. International Policies Relating to Web Accessibility
  29. Developing Organizational Policies on Web Accessibility
  30. Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization: Overview
    1. Social Factors in Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case
    2. Technical Factors in Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case
    3. Financial Factors in Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case
    4. Legal & Policy Factors in Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case
    5. Resources for Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization
  31. Implementing Web Accessibility (annotated navigation page only)
  32. Implementation Plan for Web Accessibility
  33. Improving the Accessibility of Your Website
  34. Involving Users in Web Projects for Better, Easier Accessibility
  35. Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web: Making a Website Accessible Both for People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices (intro page)
    1. Shared Web Experiences: Barriers Common to Mobile Device Users and People with Disabilities
    2. Relationship between Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) technical report
  36. Selecting and Using Authoring Tools for Web Accessibility
  37. Selecting Accessibility Professionals (working title)
  38. WAI Resources on Developing Web Accessibility Training and Presentations (annotated navigation page only)
  39. WAI Presentations
    1. Instructions for the "Components of Web Accessibility" Presentation and Step-by-Step Guide
    2. Instructions for the "Benefits of WCAG 2" Presentation
    3. Instructions for the "Using WCAG 2" Presentation
    4. Instructions for the "Web Accessibility for Older Users" Presentation
    5. Instructions for the "Web Accessibility is Smart Business" Presentation
    6. Instructions for the "[at least a few more coming]" Presentation
  40. Developing Web Accessibility Presentations and Training
    1. Topics for Web Accessibility Presentations and Training
    2. Example Outlines for Web Accessibility Presentations
    3. Example Outline for a Web Accessibility Workshop
  41. How to Make Your Presentations Accessible to All
  42. Technical Papers (annotated navigation page only)
  43. Overview of "Web Accessibility for Older Users: A Literature Review"
  44. Introduction to "Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA" the letters 'captcha' difficult to read on complex background
  45. Proceedings from RDIG Discussion of Making Collaboration Technologies Accessible for Persons with Disabilities
  46. Evaluating Accessibility Overview (annotated navigation page only)
  47. Preliminary Review of Websites for Accessibility
  48. Conformance Evaluation of Websites for Accessibility
  49. Evaluation Approaches for Specific Contexts
  50. Involving Users in Web Accessibility Evaluation
  51. Selecting Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
  52. Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools: Overview
    1. Complete List of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
    2. Simple Search of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
    3. Advanced Search for Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
  53. Using Combined Expertise to Evaluate Web Accessibility
  54. Template for Accessibility Evaluation Reports
  55. About WAI (mostly annotated navigation page)
  56. WAI Mission and Organization
  57. Overview of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Slides
  58. Participating in WAI
  59. Sponsoring WAI
  60. Translating WAI Documents
  61. Contacting WAI
  62. WAI Projects
    1. WAI-AGE Project Reference
    2. WAI-TIES Project Reference
    3. WAI-DA (IST 13470) Project Reference Guide different format
    4. WAI-DE / WAI-TIDE Final report different format
  63. WAI Press Releases and Document Release Notices
  64. WAI Events
  65. WAI Highlights
  66. More About WAI pages...
  67. WAI Site Map
  68. Help with WAI Site
  69. characters from different languages Translations
  70. RSS About RSS
  71. Search

Guidelines Pages

  1. Guidelines & Techniques (annotated navigation page only)
  2. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Overview
  3. Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) Overview
  4. User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) Overview
  5. Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) Overview
  6. WAI-ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) Suite Overview
  7. Specific Technologies

Group Pages

  1. WAI Groups (annotated navigation page only)
  2. Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AUWG)
    1. AUWG Minutes Archive
    2. AUWG Participants in Good Standing
    3. Participation in the AUWG
    4. AUWG Charter different format
    5. AUWG Mailing List Archives archive format
  3. Education & Outreach Working Group (EOWG)
    1. EOWG Deliverables
    2. EOWG Minutes Archive
    3. EOWG Participants in Good Standing
    4. Participation in the EOWG
    5. EOWG Charter different format
    6. EOWG Mailing List Archives archive format
    7. WAI Website Redesign Project
      1. WAI Site Analysis Summary
      2. WAI Site User Analysis
      3. WAI Site User Personas
      4. WAI Site Task Analysis
      5. WAI Site Evaluation Summary
  4. Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG)
    1. ERT WG Minutes Archive
    2. ERT WG Participants
    3. Participation in the ERT WG
    4. ERT WG Charter different format
    5. ERT WG Mailing List Archives archive format
  5. Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG)
    1. Participation in the Protocols and Formats Working Group
    2. PFWG Charter different format
    3. XTECH Mailing List Archives archive format
    4. PFWG Mailing List Archives (member) archive format
    5. PFWG Members-Only Area different format
  6. Research and Development Interest Group (RDIG)
    1. RDIG Charter different format
    2. RDIG Mailing List Archives archive format
  7. User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (UAWG)
    1. UAWG Minutes Archive for UAWG
    2. UAWG Participants
    3. Participation in the UAWG
    4. UAWG Charter different format
    5. UAWG Mailing List Archives archive format
  8. WAI Interest Group (WAI IG)
    1. WAI IG Charter different format
    2. WAI IG Mailing List Archives archive format
  9. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG)
    1. WCAG WG Minutes Archive different format
    2. Participation in the WCAG WG
    3. WCAG WG Participants
    4. WCAG WG Charter different format
    5. WCAG WG Mailing List Archives archive format
    6. More WCAG pages...
  10. Member-only access
    1. WAI Coordination Group (CG) (member)

Notes

Old Ideas

old IA work

Option 1 Option 2

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Home

  • ...

Introducing Accessibility

  1. Introduction to Web Accessibility
  2. Essential Components of Web Accessibility
  3. Quick Tips to Make Accessible Sites [WCAG 2 at a Glance]
  4. Papers, Posts, Podcasts, Interviews, and Articles
  5. Handouts
  6. WAI Resources [new page organized by audience]

User Perspectives

  1. Better Web Browsing
  2. Contact Inaccessible Websites
  3. How People with Disabilities Use the Web
  4. Web Accessibility and Older Users
  5. Involving Users in Web Projects for Better, Easier Accessibility
  6. [usability-accessibility overlap]

Guidelines & Techniques

...

Managing Accessibility

  1. Policy Resources
    • ...
  2. Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization: Overview
    • ...
  3. Implementing Web Accessibility
    1. Implementation Plan for Web Accessibility
    2. Improving the Accessibility of Your Website
    3. Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web:
      1. Shared Web Experiences: Barriers Common to Mobile Device Users and People with Disabilities
      2. Relationship between Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) technical report
    4. Selecting and Using Authoring Tools for Web Accessibility
  4. Developing Web Accessibility Training and Presentations
  5. Technical Papers
    • ...

Evaluating Accessibility Overview

  1. Preliminary Review of Websites for Accessibility
  2. Conformance Evaluation of Websites for Accessibility
  3. Evaluation Approaches for Specific Contexts
  4. Involving Users in Web Accessibility Evaluation
  5. Selecting Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
  6. Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools: Overview
    1. Complete List of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
    2. Simple Search of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
    3. Advanced Search for Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
  7. Using Combined Expertise to Evaluate Web Accessibility
  8. Template for Accessibility Evaluation Reports

WAI Groups

...

About WAI

...

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Home

  • ...

Introducing Accessibility

  1. Introduction to Web Accessibility
  2. Essential Components of Web Accessibility
  3. Quick Tips to Make Accessible Sites [WCAG 2 at a Glance]
  4. How People with Disabilities Use the Web
  5. Web Accessibility and Older Users
  6. Papers, Posts, Podcasts, Interviews, and Articles
  7. WAI Resources [new page organized by audience]

User Perspectives

  1. Better Web Browsing
  2. Contact Inaccessible Websites

Guidelines & Techniques

...

Managing Accessibility

  1. Policy Resources
    • ...
  2. Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization: Overview
    • ...
  3. Implementing Web Accessibility
    1. Implementation Plan for Web Accessibility
    2. Improving the Accessibility of Your Website
    3. Involving Users in Web Projects for Better, Easier Accessibility
    4. Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web:
      1. Shared Web Experiences: Barriers Common to Mobile Device Users and People with Disabilities
      2. Relationship between Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) technical report
    5. [usability-accessibility overlap]
    6. Selecting and Using Authoring Tools for Web Accessibility
  4. Developing Web Accessibility Training and Presentations
  5. Technical Papers
    • ...

Evaluating Accessibility Overview

  1. Preliminary Review of Websites for Accessibility
  2. Conformance Evaluation of Websites for Accessibility
  3. Evaluation Approaches for Specific Contexts
  4. Involving Users in Web Accessibility Evaluation
  5. Selecting Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
  6. Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools: Overview
    1. Complete List of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
    2. Simple Search of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
    3. Advanced Search for Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
  7. Using Combined Expertise to Evaluate Web Accessibility
  8. Template for Accessibility Evaluation Reports

WAI Groups

...

About WAI

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