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Announcements

• In London on Monday 23 May? Anyone is invited to meet up with EOWG participants informally at Davy's White City (BBC Media Centre, Units 4 & 5, 201 Wood Lane W12 7TS) from 5:00pm.
• WAI-AGE Project
• Follow WAI on Twitter or identi.ca

Events, Meetings, Presentations

• EOWG (Education and Outreach Working Group) Meeting: 23-24 May, London, UK
• At Evolving Standards in Accessibility in London, United Kingdom, on 25 May 2011: "Update on international web accessibility standards and support material" with Shawn

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[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

RDWG Update: Research and Development Working Group

W3C WAI's Research and Development Working Group (RDWG) will soon resume work to help identify new trends in web accessibility and inform the development of solutions. See the RDWG Update: Research and Development Working Group e-mail and RDWG home page.    (2011-May-20)

For Review: EARL 1.0 Last Call Working Draft

The Last Call Working Draft of Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0 Schema is ready for your review, along with updated Working Drafts of the EARL Developer Guide and related documents. EARL supports combining test results from different software tools, for example, to compare results from web accessibility evaluation tools. See:

• Call for Review: EARL 1.0 Last Call Working Draft e-mail
• Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) Overview
• How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process: Milestones and Opportunities to Contribute

Please send any comments on this Last Call Working Draft by 10 June 2011.    (2011-May-10)

For Review: ATAG 2.0 and Implementing ATAG 2.0 Working Drafts Updated

Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 is relevant to you if you use blogs, wikis, social networking websites, content management systems (CMS), HTML editors, or other such tools. ATAG defines how these tools should help you make your blog posts, websites, and other web content accessible — and how the tools themselves should be accessible so that people with disabilities can use them. Please review the updated Working Drafts and let us know how they can be improved to better meet the needs of developers and of people with disabilities. For more info see Call for Review: ATAG 2.0 Updated Working Drafts. Please send comments by 24 May 2011.    (2011-Apr-26)

WCAG 2.0 in Catalan: Authorized Translation Published

Directrius per a l'accessibilitat del contingut web (WCAG), versió 2.0, the Catalan Authorized Translation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, is now available, following completion of the W3C Authorized Translations process. WAI encourages translating WAI documents in all languages. See:

• WCAG 2.0 Translations for a list of other completed and planned translations
• WCAG 2.0 Catalan Authorized Translation Published e-mail

(2011-Mar-23)

Look around: Updated WAI website navigation

The WAI website navigation is updated, and points to some new drafts in development. We'll be doing more testing and working out some aspects throughout March. We look forward to your input! Please send any feedback to:

• wai-eo-editors@w3.org if you want your message publicly archived.
• wai@w3.org if you want your message to go only to WAI staff. Please indicate if we may forward it to a public list anonymously, with your name and contact information removed.

(2011-Mar-11)

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)

More WCAG 2.0 Techniques

WAI continues to develop techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and expand guidance on understanding and implementing WCAG 2.0. To learn about today's publications and about contributing on-going work on WCAG techniques, see the New and Improved WCAG 2.0 Techniques blog post.    (2010-Oct-14)

Reach your audience: Make your presentations accessible to all

How to Make Presentations Accessible to All helps you make presentations, talks, meetings, and training accessible to all of your potential audience, including people with disabilities and others. WAI would like to know how this resource works for you and how we can improve it. See the blog post: Make Your Presentations Accessible to All. Please send comments by 19 July 2010.    (2010-June-16)

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)