{"id":20,"date":"2017-04-04T14:43:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T14:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/silver\/?p=20"},"modified":"2017-04-21T14:12:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T14:12:21","slug":"what-can-we-learn-from-wcag-adaptations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/silver\/2017\/04\/04\/what-can-we-learn-from-wcag-adaptations\/","title":{"rendered":"What can we learn from WCAG adaptations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/WCAG20\/\">Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0<\/a> were made\u00a0a W3C recommendation on 11 December 2008. Since that time, individuals and organizations have adapted\u00a0WCAG\u00a0in different ways. We believe we can gain insights into\u00a0what&#8217;s needed for the next-generation accessibility guidelines by studying those adaptations\u2014the thinking behind them, the changes made, the effectiveness of the adaptations.<\/p>\n<p>We are particularly\u00a0interested in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What led up to the decision to create a WCAG adaptation?<\/li>\n<li>In the adaptation, what is\u00a0dropped? What is added?<\/li>\n<li>Are there changes to the structure of the guidelines?<\/li>\n<li>What content is\u00a0changed, or\u00a0reworded, and why?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We welcome input and insights on any aspect of WCAG adaptations that might help us gain deeper understanding into what is needed moving forward.\u00a0Please share your thoughts\u00a0in the\u00a0comments section or via\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:public-silver@w3.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">public-silver@w3.org<\/a>\u00a0mailing list.<\/p>\n<p>We are aware\u00a0there is ongoing research and exploration\u00a0of WCAG adaptions. If you know\u00a0of research activities\u00a0or have been involved in activities\u00a0yourself, please email JaEun Jemma Ku\u00a0at <a href=\"mailto:jku@illinois.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">jku@illinois.edu<\/a>. Also, please consider contributing to\u00a0our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/silver\/2017\/04\/11\/introduction-to-literature-review-project\/\">Literature Review Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 were made\u00a0a W3C recommendation on 11 December 2008. Since that time, individuals and organizations have adapted\u00a0WCAG\u00a0in different ways. We believe we can gain insights into\u00a0what&#8217;s needed for the next-generation accessibility guidelines by studying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/silver\/2017\/04\/04\/what-can-we-learn-from-wcag-adaptations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/silver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/silver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/silver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/silver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/silver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/silver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/silver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/silver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/silver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/silver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}