WCAG 2.0 Almost Ready
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group announced the publication of WCAG 2.0 as a W3C Candidate Recommendation on 30th April. WCAG 2.0 is part of a series of accessibility guidelines and techniques developed by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). The document explains how to make Web sites, applications, and other content accessible to people with disabilities, and many elderly users.
A W3C Candidate Recommendation (CR) is a major step in the W3C/WAI standards development process. This new step signals that there is broad consensus in the Working Group and among public reviewers on the technical content of WCAG 2.0.
The primary purpose of this CR stage is for developers and designers to “test drive” WCAG 2.0 to demonstrate that WCAG 2.0 can be implemented in Web sites. WAI encourages a broad range of Web sites and Web applications to use WCAG 2.0 at this stage, and share implementation experience. For information on submitting your implementations, see WCAG 2.0 Candidate Recommendation Implementation Information
If you plan to provide implementations, please let us know your intentions by 23 May 2008. Actual implementations are due by 30 June 2008.
It is important to note that some WCAG 2.0 requirements are at risk. These requirements may not be included if there are not sufficient implementations. Whilst the focus of this stage is to collect implementations, the comment form and email address are still available nd you can also monitor the document’s candidate recommendation status.
The different WCAG 2.0 documents that the WCAG Working Group updated with this publication are introduced in the Overview of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. A key tool for using WCAG 2.0 documents, which was previously called the “Quick Reference
” has now been re-named How to Meet WCAG 2.0: A customizable quick reference to WCAG 2.0 requirements.