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<h2>Page Contents</h2>
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<li><a href="#announcements" shape="rect">Announcements and
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Meetings</a></li>
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<li><a href="#current" shape="rect">Current Work</a></li>
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</div> <h2><a name="announcements" id="announcements" shape="rect"
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></a>Announcements and Meetings</h2> <p>3 January 2012: Published <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-media-accessibility-reqs-20120103/"
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>Media Accessibility User Requirements</a> First Public Working Draft.
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Please <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/comments/instructions"
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shape="rect">comment</a> by 10 February 2012.</p> <p>18 January 2011:
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Published <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-wai-aria-20110118/"
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shape="rect">WAI-ARIA 1.0 Candidate Recommendation</a>. Read the <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/QA/2011/01/wai-aria-cr.html" shape="rect">WAI-ARIA
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publication announcement</a>. Please <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/comments/instructions" shape="rect"
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>comment</a> by 25 February 2011.</p> <p>13 January 2011: Published <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-role-attribute-20110113/" shape="rect"
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>Last Call Working Draft of Role Attribute 1.0</a>. Please <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/comments/instructions" shape="rect"
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>comment</a> by 25 February 2011.</p> <p><a href="Group/meetings/f2fmar12"
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>Face to face meeting 5 - 7 March 2012 in Austin, TX</a></p> <h2><a
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name="current" id="current" shape="rect">Current Work</a></h2> <h3><a
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name="review" id="review" shape="rect"></a>Public Working Drafts under
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review</h3> <p>The Protocols and Formats Working Group invites public
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comment on the 3 January 2012 Working Draft of <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-media-accessibility-reqs-20120103/"
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>Media Accessibility User Requirements</a>. Follow the <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/comments/instructions" shape="rect"
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>instructions for commenting</a> page to submit comments. <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/comments/submit?document_version_id=6"
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shape="rect">Submit comments online</a> (preferred) or by email to to <a
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href="mailto:public-pfwg-comments@w3.org" shape="rect"
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>public-pfwg-comments@w3.org</a> (<a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-pfwg-comments/"
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title="PFWG public comments list archive" shape="rect">Archive</a>).
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Comments should be made by <strong>25 February 2011</strong>.</p> <h3><a
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name="specreview" id="specreview" shape="rect"></a>Technology Review</h3>
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<p>W3C invites public comment on the <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/TR/tr-status-all.html#tr_LCWD" shape="rect"
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>Working Drafts in Last Call</a>. The WAI and the Protocols and Formats
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Working Group invite anyone who perceives an access problem with these
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drafts to comment. Submit your comments as directed in the individual
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drafts; the email addresses vary from document to document.</p><h3>
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Technical Specifications</h3> <p>Please note that Editors' Drafts:</p> <ul>
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<li> May not be up-to-date with recent Working Group decisions</li>
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<li> Do not necessarily represent Working Group consensus, that is, the
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drafts may include proposals that the Working Group has not agreed
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on</li>
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<li> May change frequently without public notification </li>
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<li> Include "Editorial notes" that are intended for public review and
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comment </li>
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<li> Include internal "Todo" notes and areas that are not ready for review
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</li>
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</ul> <p>Edits to documents are posted regularly to the publicly visible
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editors' draft. People interested in following the work can subscribe to
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the public-pfwg-cvs mailing list to receive notification when changes are
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checked in. Techniques and examples of how to apply these technologies to
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create rich internet applications are discussed on the <a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/latest" shape="rect"
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>wai-xtech</a> mailing list. See <a href="#participation" shape="rect"
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>participation</a> for how to follow or get involved in this work.</p>
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<h4><a name="aria" id="aria" shape="rect"></a>Accessible Rich Internet
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Applications (WAI-ARIA)</h4><p>WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet
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Applications Suite, defines a way to make Web content and Web applications
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more accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with
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dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax,
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HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies.</p> <p>The work has been
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divided into five documents. The current editor's working drafts of these
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are: </p> <dl>
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<dt><a href="aria-roadmap/" shape="rect">Roadmap for Accessible Rich
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Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA Roadmap) (public editor's draft)
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</a></dt>
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<dd>This roadmap that describes the problem, what W3C specifications will
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be used to correct the problem, and the timeline for the new
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specifications. See also the <a href="/TR/wai-aria-roadmap/"
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shape="rect">Public Working Draft of the WAI-ARIA Roadmap</a>. </dd>
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<dt><a href="aria/" shape="rect">Accessible Rich Internet Applications
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(WAI-ARIA) (public editor's draft) </a><a
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href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/GUI/" shape="rect"></a></dt>
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<dd>This specification provides an ontology of roles, states, and
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properties that set out an abstract model for accessible interfaces and
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can be used to improve the accessibility and interoperability of Web
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Content and Applications. This information can be mapped to
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accessibility frameworks that use this information to provide
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alternative access solutions. Similarly, this information can be used to
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change the rendering of content dynamically using different style sheet
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properties. The result is an interoperable method for associating
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behaviors with document-level markup. See also the <a
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href="/TR/wai-aria/" shape="rect">Public version of WAI-ARIA</a>.</dd>
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<dt><a href="aria-primer/" shape="rect">WAI-ARIA Primer (public editor's
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draft) </a></dt>
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<dd>Explains the accessibility problems posed by hybrid technologies such
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as DHTML and AJAX and introduces the technologies to map controls, AJAX
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live regions, and events to accessibility APIs. Also describes new
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navigation techniques to mark common Web elements such as menus, primary
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content, secondary content, banner information and other types of Web
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structures. See also the <a href="/TR/wai-aria-primer/" shape="rect"
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>Public Working Draft of the WAI-ARIA Primer </a>.</dd>
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<dt><a href="aria-practices/" shape="rect">WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices
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(public editor's draft) </a></dt>
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<dd>Provides recommended approaches to create accessible Web content using
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WAI-ARIA roles, states, and properties to make widgets, navigation, and
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behaviors accessible. Also describes considerations that might not be
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evident to most implementors from the WAI-ARIA specification alone. See
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also the <a href="/TR/wai-aria-practices/" shape="rect">Public Working
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Draft of the WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices</a>.</dd>
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<dt><a href="aria-implementation/" shape="rect">WAI-ARIA User Agent
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Implementation Guide (public editor's draft)</a></dt>
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<dd>Describes how user agents should map WAI-ARIA features to platform
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accessibility APIs. See also the <a href="/TR/wai-aria-implementation/"
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shape="rect">Public Working Draft of the WAI-ARIA User Agent
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Implementation Guide</a>.</dd>
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</dl> <p>Formal Public Working Drafts of these documents can be found from
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the <a href="/WAI/intro/aria" shape="rect">WAI-ARIA Overview Page</a>.
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</p> <h4><a name="role-attribute" id="role-attribute" shape="rect"
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></a>Role Attribute</h4> <p>The <a href="role-attribute/" shape="rect"
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>Role Attribute (public editor's draft)</a> allows the author to annotate
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markup languages with machine-extractable semantic information about the
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purpose of an element. Use cases include accessibility, device adaptation,
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server-side processing, and complex data description. This attribute can
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be integrated into any markup language. The role attribute is necessary to
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support WAI-ARIA to define roles in XML-based languages, when the
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languages do not define their own role attribute. See also the <a
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href="/TR/role-attribute/" shape="rect">Public Working Draft of the Role
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Attribute</a>.</p> <h4><a name="media-a11y-reqs" id="media-a11y-reqs"
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shape="rect"></a>Media Accessibility User Requirements</h4> <p><a
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href="media-a11y-reqs/" shape="rect">Media Accessibility User Requiremenst
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(public editors' draft)</a> aggregates the requirements of an
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accessibility user that the W3C HTML5 Accessibility Task Force has
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collected with respect to audio and video on the Web. See also the <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/TR/media-accessibility-reqs/">Public Working Draft
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of Media Accessibility User Requirements</a>.</p> <h3><a name="taskforces"
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id="taskforces" shape="rect"></a>Task Forces</h3> <h4><a name="tf-aria"
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id="tf-aria" shape="rect"></a>WAI-ARIA Task Force</h4> <p>This task force
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develops the WAI-ARIA technology. Currently we are processing comments
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received on the latest ARIA Working Draft. ARIA issues are tracked in the
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<a href="comments/" shape="rect">PFWG public comments tracker</a>. The <a
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href="#aria" shape="rect">section on WAI-ARIA</a> has further information
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about how to follow this work.</p> <h4><a name="tf-aria-uaig"
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id="tf-aria-uaig" shape="rect"></a>WAI-ARIA User Agent Implementation Task
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Force</h4> <p>The publicly visible <a href="/WAI/PF/aria-ua-task-force"
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shape="rect">User Agent Implementation Task Force</a> is a joint task
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force of the PFWG and the <a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/"
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shape="rect">HTML Working Group (HTML WG)</a>. The objective of UAI TF is
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to develop guidelines for interoperable user agent implementation of the
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WAI-ARIA specification. Discussion and meeting information is posted to
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the WAI-XTech mailing list with the subject prefix "aapi". The <a
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href="#aria" shape="rect">section on WAI-ARIA</a> has further information
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about how to follow this work.</p> <h4><a name="tf-html-a11y"
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id="tf-html-a11y" shape="rect"></a>HTML Accessibility Task Force</h4>
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<p>The <a href="/WAI/PF/html-task-force" shape="rect">HTML Accessibility
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Task Force</a> is a joint task force of the PFWG and the <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/" shape="rect">HTML Working Group (HTML
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WG)</a>. The objective of this task force is to review accessibility
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considerations for HTML 5. The work of this task force is mainly tracked
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in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/" shape="rect">HTML
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Accessibility Task Force wiki</a>. The task force currently has a number
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of sub-groups focusing on <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Media_Sub-Group" shape="rect"
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>media</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Canvas"
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shape="rect">canvas</a>, <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/ARIA_Integration" shape="rect"
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>ARIA integration</a>, and <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Bug_Triage" shape="rect">bug
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triage</a>.</p> <h4>Specification Accessibility Task Force</h4> <p><a
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name="tf-spec-review" id="tf-spec-review" shape="rect"></a>The <a
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href="/WAI/PF/Group/spec-review-tf" shape="rect">Specification
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Accessibility Task Force</a> assists the Working Group with accessibility
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review of W3C specifications. Currently this work is done by the working
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group as a whole.</p> <h2><a id="pubs" name="pubs" shape="rect"
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>Publications</a></h2> <p>In addition to the <a href="#aria" shape="rect"
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>WAI-ARIA documents</a> and the Role Attribute, the PFWG has been
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responsible in the past for the incorporation of a number of the
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accessibility improvements introduced into W3C formats from HTML 4.0
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onward including CSS, SMIL, SVG and VoiceXML. Some specific publications
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developed in service of this work:</p> <dl>
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<dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest" shape="rect">Inaccessibility
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of Visually-Oriented Anti-Robot Tests: Problems and
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Alternatives</a></dt>
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<dd>This paper evaluates the accessibility problems with <a
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href="http://www.captcha.net/" shape="rect"><acronym
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title="Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"
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>CAPTCHA</acronym></a>, a visual verification system popular on many Web
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sites, and evaluates a number of more-accessible alternatives to the
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same problems CAPTCHA claims to solve.</dd>
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<dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/natural-lang-20030326.html"
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shape="rect">Natural Language Usage -- Issues and Strategies for
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Universal Access to Information</a></dt>
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<dd>This paper suggests a possible implementation of a language annotation
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system to clarify meaning in potentially ambiguous terms.</dd>
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<dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/XML/about" shape="rect">XML
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Accessibility Guidelines</a></dt>
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<dd>The discussions for XAG take place on the public <a
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href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/" shape="rect"
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>wai-xtech list</a>. This specification is developed by the Working
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Group.</dd>
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</dl> Some of these are are discussed in the following education notes: <ul>
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<li><a href="/WAI/References/HTML4-access" shape="rect">HTML4
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accessibility improvements</a></li>
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<li><a href="/WAI/EO/NOTE-css-access-19990309" shape="rect">CSS2
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accessibility improvements</a></li>
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<li><a href="/WAI/EO/SMIL-access.html" shape="rect">SMIL accessibility
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improvements</a></li>
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<li><a href="/TR/SVG-access/" shape="rect">SVG accessibility Note</a></li>
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</ul> <h2><a id="about" name="about" shape="rect">About the PFWG</a></h2>
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<h3><a name="contacts" id="contacts" shape="rect"></a>Contacts</h3> <ul>
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<li>PFWG Chair: Janina Sajka <<a href="mailto:janina@rednote.net"
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shape="rect">janina@rednote.net</a>></li>
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<li>PFWG W3C Staff Contact: Michael Cooper <<a
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href="mailto:cooper@w3.org" shape="rect">cooper@w3.org</a>></li>
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</ul> <h3><a name="activities" id="activities" shape="rect"
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></a>Activities</h3> <p>The PFWG looks at the formal Web technologies
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(protocols, formats, etc.) from an accessibility perspective. Best
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practices for using these technologies are addressed by <a
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href="#wai-groups" shape="rect">other WAI groups</a>, producing guidelines
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explaining how to use the technologies.</p> <p>The principal output of
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this working group is feedback to other W3C working groups developing
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specification, on how to ensure that their work can allow for
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accessibility. This does not generally create deliverables in the form of
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W3C publications.</p> <p>In particular, the group tries to review at least
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every <a href="/TR/#last-call" shape="rect">Last Call working
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draft</a>.</p> <p>The PFWG also works on the <a href="/TR/xag"
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shape="rect">XML Accessibility Guidelines (XAG)</a>.</p> <h3><a
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name="charter" id="charter" shape="rect"></a>Charter</h3> <p>The <a
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href="charter201006" shape="rect">charter of the working group</a>
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outlines the goals, work methods, and requirements for participation. It
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also explains why the working drafts and email archives of this group are
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in the <a href="Group/" shape="rect">members-only</a> area. This activity
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is conducted by the <a href="/" shape="rect">W3C</a> as part of its <a
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href="/WAI/" shape="rect">Web Accessibility Initiative</a></p> <h3><a
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name="participation" id="participation" shape="rect"
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></a>Participation</h3> <p>The participation page provides details about
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<a href="participation" shape="rect">how to join the group</a>. </p> <p>To
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follow the work of the WG without joining, the following resources are
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available:</p> <ul>
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<li>Subscribe to public <a href="#lists" shape="rect">mailing
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lists</a>;</li>
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<li>Review formal and editors' drafts of <a href="#aria" shape="rect"
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>publications</a>;</li>
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<li>Submit <a href="comments/" shape="rect">public comments</a> on current
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to join.</p> <h3><a id="neighborhood" name="neighborhood" shape="rect"
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provides for continuous enhancement of the hypertext medium.</li>
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<li>The <a href="/Metadata/" shape="rect">Resource Description Framework
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(RDF)</a> introduces knowledge about resources to the Web.</li>
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<li>The <a href="/AudioVideo/" shape="rect">Synchronized Multimedia
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Integration Language (SMIL)</a> offers a means to exchange multimedia
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content across the breadth of the Web.</li>
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offers a neutral API for accessing the document tree.</li>
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Groups</a></h4> <p>Most accessibility issues involve cooperative work
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between the PFWG and its sister groups within the WAI, particularly</p> <ul>
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which deals with assessing and correcting accessibility in Web
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(WCAG)</a> on the use of document formats to build resource webs of
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universal accessibility.</li>
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(UAAG)</a> analyzes user interface dialogs and requirements, and what
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browsers and access agents that form part of the adapted client can do
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to optimize access.</li>
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Guidelines (ATAG)</a> deals with the automation of accessible resource
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development and the accessibility of resource development
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automation.</li>
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deliverables of the group; that page also includes instructions for
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