Post on 18-Jul-2020
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Community Collaboration through
W3C WAI: Working Together
on Web Accessibility
Web accessibility
Open international community for collaboration
All materials free on the Web
World Wide Web Consortium
Accessibility – W3C
The Web is fundamentally designed to work for all people,
whatever their hardware, software, language, culture,
location, or physical or mental ability.
When the Web meets this goal, it is accessible to people
with a diverse range of hearing, movement, sight, and
cognitive ability.
Thus the impact of disability is radically changed on the
Web because the Web removes barriers to communication
and interaction that many people face in the physical
world.
However, when websites, web technologies, or web tools
are badly designed, they can create barriers that exclude
people from using the Web.
WAI
Web Standards
Accessibility guidelines
Technical specifications
Education, training, support material
Web Content
(WCAG)
WCAG 2.0 is now also ISO/IEC 40500:2012
French translations
Integrated Accessibility Guidelines
User Agent
(UAAG)
Web Content
(WCAG)
Integrated Accessibility Guidelines
User Agent
(UAAG)
Authoring Tool
(ATAG)
Web Content
(WCAG)
Starting place: Overview pages
www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag
WCAG 2 at a Glance
WAI
Web Standards
Accessibility guidelines
Technical specifications
Education, training, support material
Indie UI Events
Indie UI Events
Indie UI Events
WAI
Web Standards
Accessibility guidelines
Technical specifications
Education, training, support material
WAI Groups
International participation
Multi-stakeholder
Consensus process
In-progress drafts are public for review and comment
Education and Outreach WG
International, multi-stakeholder: accessibility specialists, programmers, designers, managers, consultants, industry, government, education
Dedicated contributors
Broad range of existing materials
Many additional materials to develop
WAI-ACT Project Additional resources
Support for Education
Training materials
Before-After Demo (BAD) (French translation in progress)
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Skills Development
Accessibility Principles
Skills Development
Accessibility Principles
Mobile Web Accessibility
Easy Checks: A First Review of Web Accessibility
WCAG-EM Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology
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“Tutorials”
For:
Self-learning
Training/education
Best practices, including:
HTML5
WAI-ARIA
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“Tutorials” on specific topics
Basics:
Components of Web Accessibility
Forms
Tables
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Advanced:
Sliders
Carousels
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Community Collaboration WAI-ACT
Accessibility support database
Open cooperation framework
Workshop on Referencing and Adopting WCAG 2 in Practice
WAI-Engage
W3C Community Group
Wiki
Opportunity to define topics
Web Platform Docs
Goal: Comprehensive, authoritative source for web developer documentation
Open to anyone
Wiki
Questions
Your WAI ("way")
WAI website www.w3.org/WAI/
Getting WAI announcements
Translate WAI documents
WAI-Engage wiki Web Platform Docs wiki
Participating in WAI
Contact shawn@w3.org