Differences between WCAG 1.0 and WCAG 20 (Accessibility OZ)

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Now that WCAG2 has been endorsed by federal, state and local Government, the time has come to review your department's web sites and applications for compliance to the new guidelines. Gian Wild will talks about WCAG2 and the main differences between this new set of guidelines and WCAG1. Presented Tuesday 29 November 2011 to the Victorian Government.

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The differences between WCAG1 and WCAG2Gian Wild

www.accessibilityoz.com.au

What do you need to do?Principles

WCAG2Guidelines

Understanding Success Criterion WCAG2

Techniques Techniques

5 conformance requirements Conformance level Full pages Complete processes Only accessibility-supported ways of using

technologies Non-interference

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Top changes from WCAG1 to WCAG2

Level A

Top changes

CAPTCHA

Top changes

Captions and audio descriptions

Top changes

Audio control

Top changes

Sensory characteristics

Top changes

Skip links

Top changes

Validation

Top changes

Pause / Stop / Hide

Top changes

Timing

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Information and relationships

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Page titled

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Error identification

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Link purpose (in context)

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Keyboard and keyboard traps

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Remember – these things remain the same

Top ten changes

Site needs to work with style sheets

off

Top ten changes

PDFs are still inaccessible

Top ten changes

JavaScript must always have an HTML fallback

More on accessibility… AGIMO accessibility blog:

http://agimo.govspace.gov.au/category/accessibility/

The Australian Government’s study into the Accessibility of the PDF for people with a disability:http://agimo.govspace.gov.au/2010/11/30/good-document-design-is-the-key-to-accessibility/

eGovernment Accessibility Toolkit: http://www.egov.vic.gov.au/victorian-government-resources/manuals-and-toolkits-victoria/accessibility-toolkit/victorian-government-accessibility-toolkit-version-3-september-2009-in-pdf-format-2898kb.html

More on accessibility… WebAIM:

http://wave.webaim.org/

W3C Web Accessibility Initiative: h

ttp://www.w3.org/WAI/

Gian Wild:h

ttp://www.gianwild.com.au

Twitter: #accessibilityoz

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Questions?

Gian Wild www.gianwild.com.au findme@gianwild.com.au

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