If you haven’t already heard, the W3C WAI is has announced the final review of WCAG 2.0. But before you submit your clever suggestions, be sure to review the WCAG 2.0 Documents.
Other folks blogging about the WCAG 2.0 final review:
Category: standards
What’s the heck’s going on with WCAG 2.0? Last I heard turned out to be an April Fool’s joke!
Thankfully, Jared Smith of The Web Standards Project (and WebAIM) has interviewed Judy Brewer on the subject. Judy is the Director of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). WCAG 2.0 is apparently in the second stage of four. Although moving very slowly, it seems many of the large concerns of the development community are being address (such as the complex language of the first draft).
Dennis and Ross interview Patrick Lauke. Patrick is the webmaster at University of Salford and a vital team member of Accessify.com. He is author of a chapter in the book Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance.
Download Episode 33 (Interview with Patrick Lauke)
Transcript of Web Axe 33, with notes and links (courtesy of Patrick Lauke)
More Links:
- Web Standards Project (WaSP)
- WaSP ATF Manifesto
- Accessites.org
- Computer Weekly article “How to make your website fit for all”
- Accessible Digital Media – Design Guidelines for Electronic Publications, Multimedia and the Web
If you don’t know him yet, Paul Boag is a web standards and accessibility enthusiast from the UK who runs a very popular web site boagworld.com (blog, forum, and podcast). Paul is a founding partner of Headscape development company. He is speaking at the Refresh06 conference next month in Orlando, Florida.
Download Episode 31 (Interview with Paul Boag)
Links:
Chris Heilmann is the author of Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax: From Novice to Professional. He’s also a co-author of Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance. He’s writes an excellent blog Wait Till I Come and has contributed many articles in web development including several articles to A List Apart and SitePoint. He is also a member of the Web Standards Project.
Download Web Axe Episode 29 (Interview with Christian Heilmann)
- Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance
- Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax: From Novice to Professional
