Do you have ideas of how to improve W3C accessibility standards?<\/p>\n
The Silver Task Force and the W3C Silver Community Group<\/a> and their research partners did more than a year of research about the successor to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2. The Silver Design Sprint in March 2018 started finding solutions for the problem statements and opportunities identified by this research. These statements focus on the structure of Silver and not (yet) on the content. We have a lot of great ideas to get started.\u00a0 The Design Sprint Report<\/a> is comprehensive and rather long. We also wrote a shortened Suggestions of the Silver Design Sprint<\/a> in a blog post.<\/p>\n We want and need the creative input from our expert accessibility community. \u00a0We have a lot of ideas that came out of the Design Sprint, and now we start experimenting, testing, and refining how these ideas could work in the real world. Things like:<\/p>\n These ideas are innovative and controversial in their own way. \u00a0We want to develop working prototypes that we can show and user test both to refine and improve the ideas, but also to demonstrate that it can work and build support from key stakeholders before we start working on what new guidance will go into Silver.<\/p>\n If you haven\u2019t seen an idea that appeals to your creativity, there are many more ideas in the Suggestions of the Design Sprint<\/a> and the full Design Sprint Report<\/a>. \u00a0It also isn\u2019t too late to create new ideas and priorities for Silver, this is just where we are putting a stake in the ground and saying, \u201clet\u2019s start here\u201d.<\/p>\n One of the barriers identified during our research is the difficulty and time-consuming nature of standards work. We are using the W3C Silver Community group as a way for people to work on what interests them, and contribute only the time they want. \u00a0Joining the Silver Community Group is free, and requires agreeing to a limited IPR requirement<\/a> so that W3C can use your work while keeping the finished guidelines free from royalties or fees for use. \u00a0It puts you on the mailing list, allows you to attend meetings (if you want), and to publish on the wiki. People who wish to contribute to the Github repo for prototypes should contact us for access. \u00a0(Permissions are still manual).<\/p>\n Read the Suggestions blog post, take a few minutes to join the Silver Community Group, and start jot down some ideas. To join the Silver Community Group:<\/p>\n Here’s some useful links for those who want more information.<\/p>\n Do you have ideas of how to improve W3C accessibility standards? The Silver Task Force and the W3C Silver Community Group and their research partners did more than a year of research about the successor to the Web Content Accessibility … Continue reading \n
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