W3C Web Accessibility Initiative

User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) provides guidance on designing Web browsers, media players, assistive technologies, and other 'user agents' to increase accessibility of the Web to people with disabilities. Plans for new work on a second generation of UAAG was published in the UAAG 2.0 Requirements Working Draft on 31 October 2007. WAI encourages you to review this document, submit any comments, and consider participating in the UAAG Working Group. See: Call for Review: UAAG 2.0 Requirements;UAAG Overview;How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process: Milestones and Opportunities to Contribute. Please send comments by 14 December 2007. (2007-10-31)

Since publishing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 as a Candidate Recommendation, the WCAG Working Group has been collecting and evaluating implementations (that is, examples of how real Web sites meet WCAG 2.0). We have implementions for almost all success critieria, and need a few more. For an updated list of implementations needed, see the Update in the WCAG 2 FAQ. The WCAG Working Group is meeting 1-3 October 2008 to address remaining issues. We are still hoping to complete WCAG 2.0 in 2008, and will provide another status update by November. See How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process for the steps needed to complete WCAG 2.0.   (2008-09-30)

The Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group today published Representing Content in RDF as a First Public Working Draft, and an updated Working Draft of HTTP Vocabulary in RDF. These documents are companions to Evaluation and Report Language (EARL), a format to exchange, combine, and analyze results from different evaluation tools. See: Call for Review: EARL Companion Documents e-mail,Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) Overview,How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process: Milestones and Opportunities to Contribute. Please send comments by 29 September 2008. (2008-09-08)

WAI has published an updated Working Draft of WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications technical specification. We especially request review of how WAI-ARIA is implemented in host languages, such as HTML, XHTML, and SVG. See: Call for Review: Updated WAI-ARIA Specification announcement e-mail; WAI-ARIA Overview, which links to WAI-ARIA FAQ and related documents for Web site developers. Please send comments by 3 September 2008. (2008-08-06)