CWAID meetup - WAI update 2015

Web Accessibility Initiative
2014/15 Update
Andrew Arch - @amja
Member, WAI Education & Outreach Working Group
24 March 2015
Canberra Web Accessibility & Inclusive Design meetup

Integrated Accessibility Guidelines
 As a reminder, the next slide introduces the
three WAI standards and how they relate:
• WCAG
• UAAG
• ATAG
 The slide also includes W3C technologies –
HTML, CSS, etc plus WAI-ARIA and IndieUI
 The graphics are drawn from:
• Essential Components of Web Accessibility
Developed with material from W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) www.w3.org/WAI/

Integrated Accessibility Standards

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)

2014-15 activity
What has the W3C and WAI done
this past year?

HTML5
 Became a Technical Recommendation in
October 2014
 Includes MathML – Browser support is
increasing
 HTML 5.1 is under active development

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) – W3C Rec (Feb 2015)
 HTML5 feature accessibility support in
Windows Browsers (Nov 2014)

WCAG 2.0 clarifications
 Techniques for WCAG 2.0
 Understanding WCAG 2.0
• Both last updated February 2015
• 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.

WCAG 2.0 Quick Reference
 How to Meet WCAG 2.0 quick reference
• Updated September 2014
 Redesign (mockup) of How to Meet WCAG
2.0: A customizable quick reference
• Work underway announced February 2015

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

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

ATAG 2.0
 Implementation testing – Candidate
Recommendation
• Ongoing since November 2013
• Call for volunteers to help test authoring tools
for conformance to ATAG success criteria

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)

WAI-ARIA
 WAI-ARIA 1.0 finalised as Technical
Recommendation (March 2014)
 WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation
Guide (March 2014)
 WAI-ARIA 1.0 Authoring Practices (Editors'
Draft - April 2014)
 WAI-ARIA 1.1 commenced drafting (June
2014)

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 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

Testing cont …
 WCAG-EM Report Tool: Accessibility
Evaluation Report Generator
• V1.0 released March 2015
• Helps generate website accessibility evaluation
reports according to WCAG-EM
• Does not undertake testing – enables recording
of your testing activities

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
• Call for tool information – December 2014
• Updated database of tools
• 48 tools and growing 
• 38 WCAG2 specific tools listed

Training resources
 Tutorials for developers
• Published
• Images
• Tables
• Forms
• In development
• Carousels
• Menus
• Page Structure

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)

WAI groups cont …
 Mobile Accessibility Task Force
• Develop specific mobile guidance related to
WCAG and UAAG
• Mobile a11y resources
• iOS, Android, Windows 8 Phone, Microsoft Surface,
Blackberry, Firefox OS
• Mobile Accessibility - How WCAG 2.0 and Other
W3C/WAI Guidelines Apply
• Call for review February 2015

WAI groups cont …
 Cognitive Accessibility Task Force
• Develop specific guidance related to cognitive
and learning disabilities
• First Public Working Draft of Cognitive
Accessibility User Research
• Published January 2015

WAI groups cont …
 SVG Accessibility Task Force
• Identification of the accessibility requirements
and management of the progress of accessibility
solutions in SVG2
• First Public Working Draft of SVG Accessibility
API Mappings
• Published February 2015

WAI groups cont …
 W3C Community Groups
• open forums … to connect with W3C's
international community of Web experts
• Colour Blindness Accessibility (Nov 2014)
• Existing accessibility groups:
• Accessible Infographics
• Accessible SVG
• CSS Accessibility
• Mobile Accessibility
• WAI-Engage: Web Accessibility

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

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

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