[Athen] WCAG 2.0 published today as "W3C Candidate Recommendation"

[Ron Stewart]

For your interested consumption

Ron

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Subject: WCAG 2.0 Candidate Recommendation Ready to Test Drive
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:49:28 -0500
From: Shawn Henry <shawn at w3.org>
To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig at w3.org>

Dear WAI Interest Group Participants,

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.
	http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-WCAG20-20080430/

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
	http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/w3c-process

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
	http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/CR/
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; that
is, they may not be included if there are not sufficient implementations.
Items at risk are listed under "Items at Risk" in:
	http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-WCAG20-20080430/#status_risk

While the focus of this stage is to collect implementations, the comment
form and email address are still available from:
	Instructions for Commenting on WCAG 2.0 Documents
	http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/comments/

The different WCAG 2.0 documents that the WCAG Working Group updated with
this publication are introduced in:
	Overview of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
Documents
	http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag20.php

A key tool for using WCAG 2.0 documents, which was previously called the
"Quick Reference", is:
	How to Meet WCAG 2.0: A customizable quick reference to WCAG 2.0
requirements...
	http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/

For more information about the Candidate Recommendation status of WCAG 2.0
and the changes since the last publication, see:
	"Status of this Document" section of WCAG 2.0
	http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-WCAG20-20080430/#status

WCAG 2.0 is part of a series of accessibility guidelines/standards developed
by WAI, which are listed in:
	WAI Guidelines and Techniques
	http://www.w3.org/WAI/guid-tech.html

Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid
cross-postings where possible.

Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you in advance for your
help implementing WCAG 2.0.

Regards,
~Shawn Lawton Henry and Judy Brewer
On behalf of:
Loretta Guarino Reid, Co-chair of WCAG WG, and Computer Scientist, Google
Inc.
Gregg Vanderheiden, Co-chair of WCAG WG, and Director of Trace R&D Center,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Michael Cooper, W3C Team Contact for WCAG WG


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Shawn Lawton Henry, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
about: http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/
phone: +1-617-395-7664
e-mail: shawn at w3.org

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