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Events, Meetings, Presentations

• Presentation and community session at Accessing Higher Ground in November 2015 in Westminster, CO, USA

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Documents in Progress

The WAI Interest Group (WAI IG) page lists documents in progress, such as accessibility guidelines WAI-ARIA 1.0, UAAG 2.0, and ATAG 2.0.

Highlights

For Review: WAI-ARIA 1.1, Accessibility API Mappings, and WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices Working Drafts

Updated Working Drafts of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1, Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.1 (Core-AAM), Accessible Name and Description: Computation and API Mappings 1.1 (AccName-AAM), SVG Accessibility API Mappings 1.0 (SVG-AAM), and WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1 are available for review. For information on updates in these drafts, see the Call for Review: WAI-ARIA 1.1 and AAM Working Drafts e-mail. Please send comments by 15 January 2016. (2015-11-19)

For Review: Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module Working Draft

Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0 is available for review as a First Public Working Draft. This specification extends WAI-ARIA 1.1 to facilitate automated processing and accessibility support for digital publications. This specification extends WAI-ARIA 1.1 to define an ontology of roles, states, and properties specific to digital publishing to allow authors to convey structural information to assistive technologies, and to enable semantic navigation, styling, and interactive features used by readers. For more information, see the [Call for Review: Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module Working Draft e-mail. Please send comments by 15 January 2016. (2015-11-19)

For Review: How to Meet WCAG 2.0: A customizable quick reference

WAI invites you to review the draft redesign of How to Meet WCAG 2.0: A customizable quick reference to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 requirements (success criteria) and techniques. It is intended to replace the current How to Meet WCAG 2.0: A customizable quick reference. We welcome comments on the user interface and the filtering by 2 December, preferrably via GitHub, or alternatively via e-mail to [email protected]. (2015-Nov-17)

Tips for Getting Started with Web Accessibility

Tips for Getting Started with Web Accessibility are designed to meet the needs of web developers, designers, writers, and others who want practical starting points for implementing web accessibility and WCAG 2.0 in their work. Three Tips pages are available now:

• Tips on Designing for Web Accessibility - Tips for user interface and visual design
• Tips on Writing for Web Accessibility - Tips for writing and presenting content
• Tips on Developing for Web Accessibility - Tips for markup and coding

We welcome your input on improving these pages. Near the bottom of each page are links to GitHub and e-mail for comments. (2015-Oct-01)

ATAG 2.0 is a W3C Recommendation

The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 was published today as a completed web standard. ATAG provides guidelines for designing web content authoring tools that are both more accessible to authors with disabilities (Part A) and designed to enable, support, and promote the production of more accessible web content by all authors (Part B). Selecting authoring tools that conform to ATAG 2.0 can facilitate the process of creating accessible Web content, and can also remove barriers to content creation by people with disabilities. Implementing ATAG 2.0 has been published as a Working Group Note to provide additional explanation, examples and resources for the ATAG 2.0 success criteria. (2015-Sept-24)

For Review: User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0

Updated Working Drafts of UAAG 2.0 and the UAAG 2.0 Reference: Explanations, Examples, and Resources for User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 are now available for review. UAAG defines how browsers, browser extensions, media players, readers, and other "user agents" should support accessibility for people with disabilities and work with assistive technologies. UAAG 2.0 is changing from a W3C Recommendation track document to a Working Group Note. It is introduced in the UAAG Overview. Please send any comments by 13 October 2015. (2015-Sept-15)

Low Vision Accessibility Task Force: Seeking Participation

A new Low Vision Accessibility Task Force will develop more specific guidance on meeting the web accessibility needs of people with low vision. To learn more, see the Low Vision Accessibility Task Force home page. (2015-Aug-18)