Since April 30, when the WCAG 2.0 Candidate Recommendation (CR) was released, there has been a ton of posts across the web telling us the WCAG 2 is almost, almost complete.
I’m not here to do that. The news is 5 days old and I have no intention of clogging up your RSS by regurgitating the same content… as important as it is.
What I do want to highlight is that there are a number of WCAG 2 requirements at risk.
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 [By 30 June 2008].
– Web Accessibility Initiative Interest Group mail list
Get Involved
I would urge you to take a look at each of the At Risk requirements to see if there are any relevant to your area of expertise that you are able to implement over the next couple of months. Alternatively, there may be someone with complementary skills that requires your assistance in implementing one of the at risk requirements.
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.
– Web Accessibility Initiative Interest Group mail list
As an example, I plan to submit an implementation for success criteria 1.2.6 Sign Language, I have expertise in this area but average video editing skills. In order to implement this effectively by the due date, I’ve had to find someone with video editing skills.
My plan is to provide and record Auslan interpreting at a couple of my upcoming conference presentations and then upload them to my site. Hopefully other local Deaf organisations will do the same.
Important Dates
So if you’re interested in a little bit of grass roots people power, jot down these dates, blog about it and see if you can get involved too.
23 May 2008 – Register your intent to provide implementations of WCAG 2 requirements.
30 June 2008 – Provide implementation experience to the WAI and/or comments on barrier to adoption of requirements.
Relevant Links
And finally, if you want to get involved, you may find these links helpful:
- Instructions for Implementors
- WCAG 2 Candidate Recommendation Implementation form
- Implementation Information Form
Let us know if you submit and implementation to WAI and we’ll talk about it some more here.
Lisa Herrod
