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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG)

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Announcements and Meetings

21 June 2011: Understanding WCAG 2.0 Public Editors' Draft and WCAG 2.0 Techniques Public Editors' Draft published. Comments are due on or before 26 August 2011. These drafts are to collect public on changes since the 14 October 2010 Working Group Notes. The existing documents remain in place as W3C Notes while this separate draft update is under review and the WCAG Working Group addresses comments. Draft updates include addition of PDF and Silverlight techniques, and clarifications based on input from the public and translators. Start with the online comment form to submit comments.

Publications

WCAG 2.0 was published as a W3C Recommendation 11 December 2008. This document is accompanied by other support materials (updated 14 October 2010) produced by the WCAG Working Group:

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 is the normative document; the rest are supporting documents.

Please view the public comment instructions if you would like to comment to the Working Group. Comments submitted are publicly available in the archive for the WCAG 2.0 public comments mailing list.

WCAG WG Meetings

The WCAG WG meets Thursdays from 4:00 to 5:30 pm Eastern Time (UTC 20:00 to 21:30 during Standard Time; UTC 21:00 to 22:30 during Daylight Time) via teleconference bridge: +1 617.761.6200 passcode 9224 ("WCAG"). To find what time this is in your region, please consult the world clock time zone converter. Please read "User Instructions for the W3C Zakim Teleconference Bridge".

We use IRC during meetings and for discussion during the week. This channel is only for members of the Working Group. IRC server: irc.w3.org:6665, channel #wai-wcag. More info about irc is available from IRC help.

Minutes from previous meetings are available.

Current Work

WCAG 2.0

Guidelines

Understanding WCAG 2.0

Techniques for WCAG 2.0

Testing WCAG 2.0

WCAG 2.0 tests are currently being developed by the Test Samples Development Task Force. Please refer to that resource for more information.

Translations of WCAG 2.0

Translations of WCAG 2.0 have been undertaken to increase awareness and facilitate feedback on the drafts. The WCAG 2.0 translations page lists translations that are available at this time.

WCAG 1.0

Publications

Related documents not published by the WCAG WG

About WCAG WG

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) is to develop guidelines to make Web content accessible for people with disabilities.

Chair and Contacts

Charter

Current WCAG WG charter

Task Force Work Statements

The Tests Samples Development Task Force (TSD TF) develops minimal examples of Web content to demonstrate correct and incorrect implementation of WCAG 2.0.

The [DRAFT] WCAG 2.0 Evaluation Methodology Task Force (Eval TF) will develop an internationally harmonized methodology for evaluating the conformance of websites to WCAG 2.0, that supports different contexts, such as for self-assessment or third-party evaluation of small or larger websites.

Mailing Lists

When using the WCAG WG mailing list:

  1. Treat other list members with respect.
  2. Keep comments within the scope of this group (see WCAG WG Charter).
  3. When raising an issue:
    • provide a clear subject line including the checkpoint(s) it relates to;
    • explain the issue briefly;
    • propose a brief & specific solution;
    • for longer comments, put a summary at the beginning.
  4. When replying:
    • keep your reply comments near the top of a message;
    • only quote essential parts of a previous message;
    • if there are multiple topics, break them into separate emails to facilitate threading and to keep the subject line accurate.
  5. Please send any questions about the WCAG WG mailing list itself to the Chairs or Team Contact, not the whole list.
  6. No soliciting.

Participation

Patent Disclosures

W3C maintains a public list of any patent disclosures made in connection with the deliverables of the group; that page also includes instructions for disclosing a patent.

Additional Information