Finding Your WAI

Document: Finding Your WAI ("way") to New Web Accessibility Resources

(Initial ideas below from Andrew Arch and Shawn Henry.)

New Resources section

general: suggest only finalised resources since Jan 2014 for update

• If so, we should delete "Some of them are in Draft stage as we gather more feedback." —Shawn

specific:

• Tutorials - Images, Tables, Forms (only mention the completed ones)
  • Web Accessibility Tutorials - this collection of tutorials shows you how to develop web content that is accessible to people with disabilities, and that provides a better user experience for everyone. Initial tutorials include Images, Tables and Forms. (March 2015)
  • Comments:
    • Seems strange to have the draft tutorials in amongst the completed ones in the tutorial menu - can we at least move them to the bottom? Should we list the drafts too? — Andrew
    • comment — name
• Easy Checks
  • Easy Checks - A First Review of Web Accessibility - helps you assess the accessibility of a web page. With these 9 simple steps, you can get an idea whether or not accessibility is addressed in even the most basic way. (March 2014)
  • Comments:
    • This resource is identified as a working draft - will this put people off using/sharing it? —Andrew
    • This page is dated March 2014 - is this too long ago to warrant inclusion in "New Web Accessibility Resources"? — Andrew
    • @@
• WCAG-EM
  • Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) - an approach for determining how well a website conforms to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. The approach contains 5 steps:
    1. Define the scope
    2. Explore the website
    3. Select a representative sample
    4. Evaluate the selected sample
    5. Report the evaluation findings
    (July 2014)
  • Comments:
    • comment — name
• WCAG-EM Report tool
  • Website Accessibility Evaluation Report Generator helps you generate a report according to the Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM). It does not perform any accessibility checks, rather it helps you follow the steps of WCAG-EM, to generate a structured report from the input that you provide. (February 2015)
  • Comments:
    • comment — name
• Eval tools database
  • Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List provides a list of evaluation tools that you can filter to find ones that match your particular needs. (December 2014)
  • Comments:
    • comment — name
• Techniques and Understanding being updated bi-annually (and QuickRef to reflect new/changed techniques)
  • In support of WCAG 2.0 implementation and understanding, the following supporting documents are updated regularly
  1. How to Meet WCAG 2.0: A customizable quick reference to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 requirements (success criteria) and technique (September 2014)
  2. Techniques for WCAG 2.0 (February 2015)
  3. Understanding WCAG 2.0 (February 2015)
  • Comments:
    • comment — name
• HTML5 - WAI-ARIA
• WAI-ARIA 1.0 and User Agent guide
  • This doesn't feel new to me. Although it's completion is "new", it's been around for years. —Shawn
  • Agreed. —Andrew

Misc

• "Look through the Website Navigation" section:
  • add link to WAI Resources and explain it's the main things in the WAI nav
  • Maybe expand it a bit to explain the "annotated nav pages"
• Delete "The "Documents Under Review by WAI IG" section of the WAI Interest Group (IG) page for a list of the draft documents that we're currently working on." (since we deleted that list because it wasn't a high enough priority to keep it updated)
• Maybe delete the QR code if the fad has passed? Does anyone use those?
  • I'd say delete it. —Sharron
• update footer

Notes

• Andrew's summaries of the last two years are available on slideshare:
  • March 2015 WAI activity update presented at Canberra accessibility meetup
  • Feb 2014 WAI activity update presented at Canberra accessibility meetup