WAI CART Notes

Acronyms & Abbreviations

WAI ("way") = Web Accessibility Initiative
W3C ("w-3-c") = World Wide Web Consortium
WCAG ("wah-cag") 2.0 = Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
WCAG 3.0 = W3C Accessibility Guidelines
ATAG ("a-tag") = Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
UAAG ("u-ag") = User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
WCAG-EM ("wah-cag-ee-m") = Web Content Accessibility Guidelines – Evaluation Methodology
ARIA ("ahr-ee-uh") = Accessible Rich Internet Applications
WAI IG = WAI Interest Group - will say "Discussion (E-mail) List"
HTML ("h-t-m-l")
CSS ("c-s-s")
SSML = Speech Synthesis Markup Language
SVG ("s-v-g")
alt text = alternative text
ISO/IEC 40500:2012
POUR ("pour") = perceivable, operable, understandable, robust
BAD ("bad") = Before and After Demo/Demonstration
XR - Immersive Environments, Virtual Reality
RTC - Real Time Communications
WoT - Web of Things
AT - Assistive Technology
XAUR - XR Accessibility User Requirements
RAUR - RTC Accessibility User Requirements
RTT - Real-Time Text
VRS - Video Relay Services
IRC - Internet Relay Chat
FAST - Framework for Accessible Specification of Technologies
AI - Artificial Intelligence
RQTF - Research Questions Task Force
APA - Accessible Platform Architectures working group

Agenda:

Knowbility brief intro
– Jillian live
Greetings from W3C WAI (raw recording, text transcript)
– Judy recorded then directly to Shawn
Foundation for Today, Accessibility is about People (includes short overview of How People Use the Web and Involving Users in Web Projects)
– Shawn - live then Q&A
Emerging Technologies and Developing Work Areas
- XR & XAUR, RTC & RAUR ; briefly FAST, privacy, security, Web of Things (about XAUR, about RAUR)
  – Josh - live with Q&A 3 times
- Pronunciation (on Vimeo with captions, raw recording in drive, HTML slides online) <ran@w3.org>
  – Roy - recorded then Q&A
- Personalization (on Vimeo with captions, raw recording in drive, HTML slides online) <ran@w3.org>
  – Roy - recorded then Q&A
- Accessibility for people with cognitive and learning disabilities (on Vimeo with captions, raw recording, PPTX slides) <stevelee@w3.org>
  – (Steve) - Shawn live chat, then Steve recorded, then Q&A
(Shawn intro sessions after break if transition is easy)

[break ~5 mins]

Resources for Planning, Managing, and Communicating Your Accessibility (goes over web pages linked from the Planning and Policies Overview page)
– Shawn - live then Q&A
Advancing Authoring Tool Accessibility (on Vimeo with captions, raw recording) <hidde@w3.org>
– Hidde - recorded then Q&A
(Shawn intro sessions after break if transition is easy)

[break ~15 mins]

WCAG Basics (goes over web pages linked from the WCAG Overview page)
– Shawn - live then brief Q&A
WCAG Current and Future Work (raw recording - 3 parts, HTML slides online) <cooper@w3.org>
– Michael - 3 recordings with Q&A in between and after
Resources for Developers, Designers, Content Creators, including Audio and Video (goes over web pages linked from the Design & Develop Overview page)
– Shawn - live then Q&A

[break ~10 mins]

Evaluating Web Accessibility: Resources and New Work (goes over web pages linked from the Test & Evaluate Overview page)
– Shadi - live then Q&A
Resources for Teaching and Advocating (goes over web pages linked from the Teach and Advocate Overview page)
– Shawn live, then Daniel live (no chat!), then Q&A
Contributing to WAI work
– Shawn - live then Q&A(if time)
Conclusion: Accessibility in Context
– Shawn - live then done!