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Web Accessibility Initiative2014 Update
Andrew Arch - @amja
Digital Government Strategy, Department of FinanceMember, WAI Education & Outreach Working Group
Integrated Accessibility Standards
Who knows about:
HTML 5.0 release?
UAAG 2.0 status?
Indie UI progress?
WAI-ARIA release?
WebVTT?
Who knows about:
HTML 5.0 release?
UAAG 2.0 status?
Indie UI progress?
WAI-ARIA release?
WebVTT?
HTML5
Became a Technical Recommendation in October 2014
Includes MathML – Browser support is increasing
HTML 5.1 and 5.2 under active development
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/
HTML5 accessibility
Using WAI-ARIA in HTML (June 2014)
HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives - draft updated (Oct 2014)
HTML5 Image Description extension (longdesc) – Proposed Rec (Dec 2014)
HTML5 feature accessibility support in Windows Browsers
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/
WCAG 2.0 clarifications
Techniques for WCAG 2.0
Understanding WCAG 2.0
• Both updated March & September 2014
• Understanding Techniques for WCAG Success Criteria
• “Techniques are informative — that means they are not required.” However, many organisations require them, and most tools use them as the basis for testing.
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/
WCAG 2.0 internationalisation
Additional authorised translations released
• Estonian – December 2013
• Portuguese (PT & BR) – October 2014
• Simplified Chinese – October 2014
WCAG 2.0 Translations has a list of other completed and planned translations
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/
UAAG 2.0
User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
UAAG 2.0 Reference: Explanations, Examples, and Resources
• Updated working drafts released for both in September 2014
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/
ATAG 2.0
Implementation testing – Candidate Recommendation
• Ongoing since November 2013
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/
W3C process
How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process
• Working Draft(s)
• Last Call Working Draft
• Candidate Recommendation
• Proposed Recommendation
• W3C Recommendation (Web Standard)
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/
IndieUI
Independent User Interface (IndieUI)• A way for user actions to be
communicated to web applications independently of the device
• Events for User Interface Independence (updated May 2014)
• User Context for web interface preferences (updated June 2014)
• Being adopted by WebAppsWorking Group
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/
WAI-ARIA
WAI-ARIA 1.0 finalised as Technical Recommendation (March 2014)
WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent ImplementationGuide (March 2014)
WAI-ARIA 1.0 Authoring Practices (Editors' Draft - April 2014)
WAI-ARIA 1.1 commenced drafting (June 2014)
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/
Video
Timed Text Working Group
• Part of the Video in the Web Activity
• WebVTT: The Web Video Text Tracks Format - First Public Working Draft published (Nov 2014)
• WebVTT files provide captions or subtitles for video content
• Used for marking up external text track resources in connection with the HTML5 <track> element
• Web Media Text Tracks community group
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/
Web Accessibility Testing
Website Accessibility Conformance Methodology (WCAG-EM)
• Finalised – August 2014
• Five steps:
1. Define the scope
2. Explore the target website
3. Select a representative sample
4. Audit the selected sample
5. Report the evaluation findings
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/
Testing cont …
Easy Checks – A first review of web accessibility
• Finalised December 2014
• Nine easy things for non-experts to check
Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List
• Updated database of tools
•Coming real soon
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/
Training resources
Tutorials for developers
• Published
• Images
• Tables
• Forms
• In development
• Carousels
• Menus
• Page Structure
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/
WAI groups
Digital Publishing interest group
• part of the Digital Publishing Activity
• Bridging the Web and Digital Publishing -presentation (October 2014)
• Bridging the Web and Digital Publishing: EPUBWEB (November 2014)
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/
WAI groups cont …
Mobile Accessibility Task Force
• Develop specific mobile guidance related to WCAG and UAAG
• Mobile a11y resources
Cognitive Accessibility Task Force
• Develop specific guidance related to cognitive and learning disabilities
• Cognitive Accessibility Task Force work, including outputs and draft documents
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/
WAI groups cont …
W3C Community Groups
• open forums … to connect with W3C's international community of Web experts
• Colour blind community gp (new)
• Existing accessibility groups:
• Accessible Infographics
• Accessible SVG
• CSS Accessibility
• Mobile Accessibility
• WAI-Engage: Web AccessibilityDeveloped with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/
R&D Symposiums
Accessible e-Learning
• 16 December 2013
Accessible Way-Finding Using Web Technologies
• 3 December 2014
Previous Symposia Reports
• WAI Research and Development Working Group
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/
Keeping up-to-date
WAI home page
WAI Highlights Archives
WAI Interest Group
• A public group with a mailing list for general discussion on Web accessibility
• WAI-IG mailing list archives and subscription information
Participate in WAI groups
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/
