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Development of Techniques for WCAG 2.0

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The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) is developing version 2.0 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0). We are responding to feedback we have received since publication of WCAG 1.0 in May 1999. The Requirements for WCAG 2.0 outlines our goals for version 2.0. For information on latest drafts of WCAG 2.0, refer to the "Current Work" section of the WCAG WG home page.

This page is evolving into the work page for the Techniques Task Force of the WCAG WG.

Issues

• Issue tracking for WCAG 2.0 (all issues)
  • Bugzilla interface
• Instructions for editing WCAG 2.0 materials

Techniques

The techniques documents provide technology-specific guidance for WCAG 2.0 guidelines and success criteria.

• Issue tracking for WCAG 2.0 Techniques
  • Bugzilla interface
• Techniques for WCAG 2.0 submission form
  • Recently Submitted Techniques
• Techniques DTD (xmlspec-techs) - an extension of XMLSpec that we share with the Internationalization Working Group's GEO Task Force.
  • example xml instance of dtd using html techniques
  • Documentation for WCAG Techniques DTD
  • Notes on use of the i18n techniques dtd (that will be modified for our use)
• XSLT for generating techniques
  • xmlspec-tech.xsl imports wcag2gl.xsl
  • diffspec.xsl generates a document that shows edits (uses "diff" attribute values of 'add,' 'chg,' 'del,' or 'off')
• Table View of WCAG 2.0 Success Criteria and Related Documents [DRAFT]

HTML Techniques

• Current public HTML Techniques draft - 30 June 2005
• Current internal HTML Techniques draft - 11 February 2005
• Issue tracking for WCAG 2.0 Techniques for HTML/XHTML
• HTML-TECHS source XML

CSS Techniques

• Current public CSS Techniques draft - 30 June 2005
• Current internal CSS Techniques draft - 11 February 2005
• CSS Issues List
• Issue tracking for WCAG 2.0 Techniques for CSS
• CSS-TECHS source XML
• CSS Techniques for WCAG 2.0 (previous draft, 16 July 2001)

General Techniques

This document merges what was called "Core Techniques for WCAG 1.0" and "Techniques for WCAG 1.0" into both a gateway to the technology-specific techniques and collection of general techniques that apply across technologies.

• Current public General Techniques draft - 30 June 2005
• Current internal General Techniques draft - 11 February 2005
• Issue tracking for General Techniques for WCAG 2.0
• General Techniques source XML

Scripting Techniques

Current status: Several script writers have recently joined the mailing list to discuss scripting techniques.

• Current public Client-side Scripting Techniques draft - 30 June 2005
• Current internal Client-side Scripting Techniques draft - 11 February 2005
• Call for contributions from script writers (Matt May)
• Incorporate minutes from 2 March 2001 F2F
• Refer to Jim Ley's examples and evaluation concept/tool "Snork"

Server-side/RDF Techniques

• Initial source
• Status: open action item from 24 August 2000 telecon
  • Minutes from October 2000 discussion

Other W3C technologies to be addressed

• SMIL Techniques
  
  • Status: needs to be created based on the SMIL access note.
  • Access note needs to be updated to SMIL 2.0.
• SVG Techniques
  Status: needs to be created based on:
  • SVG access note
  • draft of techniques from October 2000 F2F
  • Othe resources
    • Internet Mapping for the Visually Impaired with Scalable Vector Graphics - Darek Baingo And Peter Pulsifer

      February 15, 2002, CTIO, Mapping Services Branch, Natural Resources Canada

• XML Accessibility Guidelines written by the Protocols and Formats Working Group.

Non-W3C technologies

The future of these drafts is under discussion.

• PDF Techniques - To be written and published by Adobe.

Testing and test suites

• Initial draft of test matrix - Jenae Andershonis
• Test cases for WCAG 1.0 Errata and WCAG 2.0 HTML Techniques - Jenae Andershonis, Wendy Chisholm

Old list of test files and references

Resources and References - new collection of resources and references used in the development of WCAG 2.0

• Tests for the User Agent Support Page - December 1999. Links to pages that use refresh and redirect, as well as includes some scripting and an animated gif.
• Len Kasday's Web Accessibility Examples and Demos
• Test for accesskey (first in a series) - Gregory Rosmaita
• Test for accesskey (second in series) - Gregory Rosmaita
• DIV, tabindex and accesskey - Cynthia Shelly
• Specifying font sizes
• Tests for images - February 2000
• Keyboard access to forms - June 2000
• Broken or abused markup
• Tests for navigation bars - using MAP to group links.
• Test page for spaces - March 2000
• Style sheets and graceful transformation (one does, one doesn't) - linked to from the CSS Techniques for WCAG. Screen shots are also included in that document.
• Accessible DHTML: A Case Study
• Excerpts from the NBA Tape Recording Manual, Third Edition.
• Interesting Statistics - Wendy Chisholm

Previous drafts

• Technology-specific checkpoints - updated 6 February 2001.
• First public draft was 25 January 2001. Summary of comments on the 25 January 2001 public draft.
• Draft Reformulation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines - published 15 September 2000. Does not include links to technology-specific checkpoints, however this is the most up to date language of the principles and guidelines.
• DRAFT Reformulation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines -published 23 August 2000. Contains links to the technology-specific checkpoints.
• Guide to the Guidelines - 10 September 2000.
• Proposed checkpoints for WCAG - April 2000.
• DRAFT of Generalized WCAG Checkpoints - 25 April 2000.
• Checkpoint Checker- September 2000

WCAG 1.0 History

• Guidelines document issues list. This includes links to the lists of issues resolved during last call and Proposed Recommendation.
  Note. The issues lists supersedes the Log of comments and actions taken and Log of changes.
• Open issues from ERT WG that need clarification
• DRAFT NOTE: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Impact Matrix This document examines the impact of each checkpoint of WCAG 1.0 for its affect on each major category of disability and technology.
• 17 Jan 2000 Conformance page. Refer to 13 January teleconf discussion.
• History of changes to the guidelines
• User Agent Support for Accessibility. This page documents user agent support for accessibility features discussed in WCAG 1.0.

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