Overview of W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) activities and outputs during 2016 - prepared for the OZeWAI conference in December 2016

1. Web Accessibility Initiative
2016 Update
Andrew Arch - @amja
WAI Education & Outreach Working Group

2. Integrated Accessibility Standards

3. Accessibility Guidelines 3.0
 ATAG and UAAG working groups no longer
exist
 AG 3.0 proposes to incorporate aspects of
authoring tool and user agent accessibility
 More information at Accessibility Guidelines
Working Group Charter [Proposed]
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/

4. WCAG 2.1
 Proposed for development next year
• WCAG 2.0 under exploration
 Will incorporate work of
• Cognitive Accessibility task force
• Low Vision task force
• Mobile Accessibility task force
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/

5. WCAG 2.0 clarifications
 Techniques for WCAG 2.0
 Understanding WCAG 2.0
• Both updated October 2016
• 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/

6. Accessibility Conformance T/F
 Started as a community group
 Formed under the WCAG working group
 Objective is to “develop a framework and
repository of test rules, to promote a unified
interpretation of WCAG 2.0 among different
web accessibility test tools”
 More info on the WAI ACT page
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/

7. WAI videos released
 Web Accessibility Perspectives videos explore
the impact of accessibility for people with
disabilities and the benefits for everyone
 10 web accessibility topics with short videos,
brief descriptions, and links to learn more
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/

8. Graphics accessibility
 First Public Working Draft of
• Graphics Accessibility API Mappings
 Updated Working Drafts of
• SVG Accessibility API Mappings
• WAI-ARIA Graphics Module
 Released for review – September 2016
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/

9. WAI ARIA
 WAI-ARIA 1.0 Authoring Practices and
Primer retired (July 2016)
 Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-
ARIA) 1.1 now Candidate Recommendation
(Oct 2016)
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/

10. WCAG 2.0 Quickref
 How to Meet WCAG 2.0: A customizable
quick reference updated (March 2016)
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/

11. WCAG EM reporting tool
 WCAG-EM Report Tool: Website Accessibility
Evaluation Report Generator updated (March
2016)
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/

12. Accessibility Evaluation Tools
 Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List
released (March 2016)
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/

13. UAAG 2.0
 User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
 UAAG 2.0 Reference: Explanations,
Examples, and Resources
• Published as Working Group Notes
(Dec 2015)
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/

14. Digital Publishing Interest Group
 Digital Publishing and Accessibility in W3C
Documents
• W3C Interest Group Note 03 May 2016
 Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0
• W3C Working Draft 17 March 2016
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/

15. International Digital Publishing Forum
 IDPF merges with W3C
• W3C and IDPF Explore Plans to Combine
(May 2016)
• IDPF Members Approve Plan to Combine
with W3C (Nov 2016)
 IDPF materials
• EPUB 3 Accessibility Guidelines (Aug 2016)
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/

16. 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/