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)

…

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

…

“Tutorials”

For:

Self-learning

Training/education

Best practices, including:

HTML5

WAI-ARIA

…

“Tutorials” on specific topics

Basics:

Components of Web Accessibility

Forms

Tables

…

Advanced:

Sliders

Carousels

…

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