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WCAG Techniques and Understanding WCAG Updates
We've got another update to the WCAG 2.0 supporting documents for your review... Some of the updates in these drafts provide important clarifications on the role of techniques....
eBooks: Great Expectations Workshop, second day
After a successful start on Monday, the workshop on eBooks and W3C continued and concluded yesterday. The goal of the Workshop, as I explained yesterday, was to explore how the digital publishing community could work with W3C for a better...
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IndieUI: Events expands user interface interactions for mobile and more
The IndieUI Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of IndieUI: Events 1.0. IndieUI: Events focuses on common types of user interface interactions that are controlled in different ways across platforms, such as scrolling the view, canceling an action, changing the value of a user input widget, selecting a range, placing focus on an object, etc. These user intentions can be inferred from hardware- and platform-specific user interactions through the keyboard, mouse, speech, or touch input.
WCAG 2.0 is now also ISO/IEC 40500!
We're very pleased to announce that WCAG 2.0 is now also an ISO International Standard, ISO/IEC 40500:2012. ISO/IEC 40500 is exactly the same as the original WCAG 2.0 standard from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), which remains freely available along with supporting resources from the WCAG Overview.
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Open Data Conference in Paris
W3C (and friends, like Nigel Shadbolt) will participate in the first edition of the Open Data Conference taking place on September 27, 2012 in Paris, France. This conference brings together an international set of experts to discuss current challenges as...
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Make Your Presentations Accessible to All updated - share the news
Do you remember a time when people around you broke out in laughter, but you didn't hear the joke? You could be doing a similar thing to your audience — leaving some people out.... Read on to learn how to make your presentations, talks, meetings, training, conferences, etc. accessible to all of your potential audience, including people with disabilities and others...
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WCAG Techniques Updated - Learn about the informative guidance
Today W3C WAI published updated Techniques for WCAG 2.0 and Understanding WCAG 2.0... We encourage you to learn more about the stable WCAG 2.0 standard and the "informative" Techniques...
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Ensuring Accessibility Support in HTML5
HTML5 was announced as a W3C Last Call Working Draft on 25 May 2011. The W3C press release invites broad review to determine to what extent HTML5 has met its technical requirements and dependencies. The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) encourages your comments and participation.
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Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) moves to Candidate Recommendation (CR)
Today the Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) published WAI-ARIA 1.0 as a Candidate Recommendation. This is a major milestone in development of this technology, indicating that it is considered feature complete after years of development and multiple public consultations. As ARIA enters the Candidate Recommendation phase, the focus shifts from specification development to implementation testing.
