Accessibility Task Force
Bringing together accessibility specialists from across the world, the Accessibility Task Force works with accessibility organizations, technology vendors and others to help promote Web accessibility.
The Accessibility Task Force plays a key role in assisting product developers and manufacturers to improve Web standards support within their products.
The Task Force also works towards promoting a better understanding of Web accessibility by designers and developers, corporate organizations and government institutions.
The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards which ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.
Recent Task Force Buzz
WCAG 2 now “candidate recommendation”
By Bruce Lawson | April 30th, 2008
The W3C announced today that WCAG2 is now a candidate recommendation and is likely to be “live” by the end of the year.
The W3C says
Candidate Recommendation means that we think the technical content is stable and we want developers and designers to start using WCAG 2.0, to test it out in every-day situations.
It’s a while since I looked at it and it’s changed a lot since then (for the better), so I’ll be starting from the comparison of WCAG 1.0 checkpoints to WCAG 2.0 and the customisable quick reference How to Meet WCAG 2.0.
The W3C is looking for help, too:
What’s important now is that we need your help moving WCAG 2.0 to the next stage. In order to advance WCAG 2.0, we need to demonstrate that it can be implemented in different types of Web content, in a variety of human languages, and using a variety of technologies[…]
We welcome WCAG 2.0 implementation experience from a wide range of environments, including e-commerce, government, education, blogs, etc.
Note that there are a few success criteria that are at risk of becoming advisory if we don’t get at least two implementations of them. Here is a special appeal for implementations of those at risk success criteria.
To be a part of this stage of WCAG 2.0 implementation experience, check out WCAG 2.0 Candidate Recommendation Implementation Information.
We urge anyone who can help the W3C to do so: it makes for a better set of guidelines for us all.
More Buzz articles
| Title | Date |
|---|---|
| UK government accessibility consultation | November 4th, 2007 |
| A review of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, May 2007 Working Draft | June 11th, 2007 |
| London: Shawn Lawton Henry on WCAG 2.0 | May 28th, 2007 |
| Screen Reader User on U.S. National Public Radio | May 24th, 2007 |