W3C Accessibility Guidelines

Charles McCathieNevile

Editor, ATAG 1.0, XAG

W3C WAI (and Semantic Web)

Jason White

Invited expert of WAI

WCAG Chair and Editor

Overview

1. Introduction to W3C and WAI
2. Fitting the Guidelines together
3. Using the Guidelines
4. Past, Present and Future

W3C - who are they?

• International distributed consortium

  Leading the Web to its Full Potential

• Led by Tim Berners-Lee (Director)
• 450 members developing standards by consensus
• Including the Public in development

What do they do?

@@ 7 points

Web Aaccessibility Initiative

Access for People with Disabilities

• Guidelines
• Interest Groups (General, Research and Development)
• Education and Outreach
• Review of W3C specifications
• Tool development

Authoring Tools

• Key for creating the Web
• Wide range of tools, including
  • Page editing tools
  • Site management tools
  • Database entry systems
  • Style Guide and site policy

Integrating the Guidelines

• WCAG incorporated by multiple references
  • Relative Priority scheme
  • Various requirements for support
    • Documentation
    • Edit Functionality
    • Check and Repair

Integrating more...

• UAAG - make interfaces accessible
  • Primarily for browsers and plugins
  • Applicable to browsing and editing
  • Important for WYSIWYG
• XAG - XML Accessibility Guidelines
  • For document formats
  • Content?? Authoring Tool??

Applying the guidelines

Which ones apply to me?

WCAG

Any content made available on the Web

ATAG

Any system for creating content for the Web

UAAG

Any interface for looking at (or editing) content

XAG

Any format for content