Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group News

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group and the WAI Education and Outreach Working Group have published the First Public Working Draft of Relationship Between Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines document.

People with disabilities and people using a mobile device have so much in common that the Mobile Web Best Practices document was indeed created from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines document, looking at the rules that could also apply in the mobile world. Many of them had to be adjusted to fit as mobile, but there remains many similarities.

The document explores these similarities and answers the following questions:

• When one followed the accessibility guidelines to create a web page, what does one have to do to also follow the mobile web best practices?
• When one followed the mobile web best practices to create a web page, what does one have to do to also follow the accessibility guidelines?
• How may one follow both documents at once to create a web page?

If interested, you could start by reading:

• Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web: Making a Web Site Accessible Both for People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices, which shows how design goals for accessibility and mobile access overlap
• Experiences Shared by People with Disabilities and by People Using Mobile Devices, which provides examples of barriers that people (without disabilities) face when interacting with Web content via mobile devices, and similar barriers for people with disabilities using desktop computers.