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Announcements

• Open position: Web Accessibility Specialist (Europe)
• Open position: Web Accessibility Engineer
• WAI-ACT Project
• Get WAI Announcements

Events, Meetings, Presentations

• At AccessU at CSUN in San Diego, CA, USA on 27 February 2012: "Building the Business Case in your Organization" tutorial with Shawn
• At CSUN International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference in San Diego, CA, USA, around 27 February - 3 March 2012:
  • Making New Web Technologies Accessible panel lead by Judy
  • Website Evaluation and Testing with WCAG 2 by Shadi
  • Lack of Access and Skills Limiting Careers? panel
  • Web Accessibility Community Collaboration panel lead by Shawn

[WAI Presentations]
[Past WAI Events]

Documents in Progress

The WAI Interest Group (WAI IG) page lists documents in progress, such as accessibility guidelines WAI-ARIA 1.0, UAAG 2.0, and ATAG 2.0.

Highlights

Share the news: How to Make Your Presentations Accessible to All is updated

How to Make Presentations Accessible to All helps you make presentations, meetings, conferences, etc. accessible to all of your potential audience, including people with disabilities and others. We welcome your help telling others about this resource. See more in the blog post: Make Your Presentations Accessible to All updated - share the news.    (2012-Feb-20)

BAD to Good Updated: Demo shows web accessibility barriers fixed

The Before and After Demonstration (BAD) shows an inaccessible website and a retrofitted version of the same website with the accessibility barriers fixed. BAD is especially useful for presentations. See more in the BAD accessibility demo updated - share the news e-mail.    (2012-Jan-31)

First Draft of Media Accessibility User Requirements

We invite you to comment on the First Public Working Draft of Media Accessibility User Requirements that describes the accessibility requirements of people with disabilities with respect to audio and video on the Web, particularly in the context of HTML5. See Call for Review: Media Accessibility User Requirements email. Please send comments by 9 March 2012.    (2012-Jan-03)

WAI-ACT: Cooperation, Implementation, Evaluation, Research

WAI invites you to participate in the new WAI-ACT Project to help develop:

• An expanded framework for open cooperation among individuals and organizations,
• Technical guidance on implementing web accessibility,
• A harmonized methodology for evaluating website accessibility,
• Coordinated contribution to an eAccessibility research agenda.

See WAI-ACT Project: Accessibility Cooperation, Implementation, Evaluation, and Research e-mail and WAI-ACT Project page to learn about this European Commission (EC)-funded project.   (2011-Nov-16)

Eval Task Force: Guidance on evaluating web accessibility

WAI is starting a WCAG 2.0 Evaluation Methodology Task Force to develop more comprehensive guidance on evaluating web accessibility. The Evaluation Task Force will develop an internationally harmonized methodology for evaluating websites' conformance to WCAG 2.0. Learn more about it from the Web Accessibility Evaluation and Testing e-mail.   (2011-July-13)

WAI-ARIA On the Move: Implementation Testing Underway

We are excited to announce that Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0 was published as a W3C Candidate Recommendation on 18 January 2011. The Candidate Recommendation stage means that there is broad consensus on the technical content, and we are gathering WAI-ARIA implementations. Please see additional information in:

• WAI-ARIA 1.0 Candidate Recommendation in Implementation and Testing e-mail
• Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) moves to Candidate Recommendation (CR) blog post
• How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process
• WAI-ARIA Overview

If you are interested in sharing implementation experience, please let us know before 25 February 2011.    (2011-Jan-18)

Working Together for Better Accessibility

To help and encourage developers and users working together, WAI has updated the following documents:

• Contacting Organizations about Inaccessible Websites (primarily for users)
• Involving Users in Web Projects for Better, Easier Accessibility (primarily for project managers, designers, developers, editors, and others involved in all types of web projects)
  
• Involving Users in Evaluating Web Accessibility (for those evaluating accessibility)

See Updated Resources Encourage Working Together for Better Accessibility e-mail for more information.    (2010-April-22)