If you are interested in Accessible Technology, then you should know there’s been another step made in implementing WCAG 2.0. This is snipped from an email I got this afternoon:
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group is excited to announce the publication of WCAG 2.0 as a W3C Candidate Recommendation on 30 April. WCAG 2.0 explains how to make Web sites, applications, and other content accessible to people with disabilities, and many elderly users.
Candidate Recommendation (CR) is a major step in the W3C standards development process; it signals that there is broad consensus in the Working Group and among public reviewers on the technical content of WCAG 2.0. The W3C Process stages are described in:
How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process
The primary purpose of this CR stage is for developers and designers to “test drive” WCAG 2.0 to demonstrate that it can be implemented in Web sites. 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*.
Ready? Go!
