User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (UAWG) (original) (raw)

WAI: Strategies, guidelines, resources to make the Web accessible to people with disabilities

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Announcements and Meetings

Status:The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (UAWG) has closed. Some aspects of the formal group closing may be pending. Potential future work in this area may be pursued by a working group combining the scopes of web content and applications, user agents, and authoring tools. See WAI Working Groups for more information. (2016-1-5)

Status: UAWG published UAAG 2.0 and UAAG 2.0 Reference as Working Group Notes. (2015-12-15)

Status: UAWG charter extended to 5 January 2016 (2015-11-5)

Status: The Mobile Accessibility Task Force, a joint task force of WCAG WG and UAWG, published the First Public Working Draft of Mobile Accessibility: How WCAG 2.0 and Other W3C/WAI Guidelines Apply to Mobile. (2015-02-26)

Status: UAWG moved UAAG Editors draft and UAAG Comment processing to Github (2014-04-24)

Teleconferences:

Minutes:

Face to face meetings:

Current Work

UAAG 2.0

UAAG 2.0 Reference (formerly Implementing UAAG 2.0)

Input to Future Guidelines Work

Comment Responses on UAAG 2.0 Working Drafts

Mobile Accessibility Task Force

The Mobile Accessibility Task Force (Mobile A11Y TF) is a joint Task Force of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) and the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (UAWG). It assists these Working Groups to produce techniques, understanding, and guidance documents, as well as updates to existing related W3C material that addresses the mobile space. Kim Patch is the Task Force Facilitator representing UAWG and Jeanne Spellman is the W3C staff contact.

Low Vision Accessibility Task Force

The Low Vision Accessibility Task Force (Low Vision A11Y TF) is a joint Task Force of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) and the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (UAWG). The objective of the task force is to identify issues and specify solutions to web accessibility issues specific to users with low vision via WCAG 2.0 techniques, understanding and guidance documents, and as needed to produce extensions to WCAG 2.0. Since many of the low vision issues may be addressed through the browser, this work will also include references and use cases related to UAAG 2.0. Jim Allan is the Task Force Facilitator representing UAWG and Jeanne Spellman is the W3C staff contact.

Older Work

UAAG 1.0 Implementation

Test suites and implementation reports

Previous deliverables

Future deliverables (after UAAG 1.0)

Other Work

Comments on other W3C Documents

Publications

User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0 Working Group Note

User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0 Working Group Note (15 December 2015)

User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 1.0 Recommendation

User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (UAAG 1.0)- W3C Recommendation (17 December 2002)

About the UAWG

The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines explain to user agent developers how to make their products more accessible to people with disabilities and for increasing usability for all users. The Working Group charter outlines the goals, work methods, and requirements for participation.

Work of the WCAG WG is in accordance with the W3C Process. UAWG work is funded in part by the WAI Core project. The work of this group does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the funders.

Participation

Information on how to participate in the Working Group. You may join if you belong to a W3C Member organization or have been invited by the Chair to participate.

Mailing List

Patent disclosures

Patent disclosures for UAWG deliverables are made available per the 24 January 2002 W3C Current Patent Practice Note:

All disclosure statements made by W3C Members are made public with each publicly-visible Working Draft (public Working Draft, Last Call Working Draft, Candidate Recommendation, Proposed Recommendation, Recommendation).

Chair and Team Contact