WCAG Techniques for image text alternatives
For many years the main way to provide a text alternative for an image was to use the alt attribute. This has changed with the advent of WAI-ARIA. alt is still a valid, well supported attribute and is...
View ArticleTechniques for WCAG and Understanding WCAG Documents updated, including...
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group is pleased to announce the publication of updates to two W3C Working Group Notes – Techniques for WCAG 2.0 and Understanding WCAG 2.0. The...
View ArticleWAI-ARIA Expands Web Accessibility
On behalf of the Web Accessibility Initiative’s Protocols and Formats Working Group I am excited to announce that Accessible Rich Internet Applications 1.0 (WAI-ARIA) and its companion specification,...
View ArticleThis week: WAI-ARIA now a standard, W3C Japan hiring, Webizen task force, etc.
This is the 14-21 March 2014 edition of a “weekly digest of W3C news and trends” that I prepare for the W3C Membership and public-w3c-digest mailing list (publicly archived). This digest aggregates...
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WAI-ARIA Graphics Module Published
By Amelia Bellamy-Royds A First Public Working Draft of the WAI-ARIA Graphics Module was published today. This new vocabulary for describing graphical documents allows improved representation to and...
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W3C Developer meetup in San Francisco, November 6
We are just a week away from W3C annual Technical Plenary week in the outskirts of San Francisco, where this year again, we are organizing a developer meetup! The event is free, open to anyone who...
View ArticleWAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1 Note helps authors make content accessible
I am excited to announce that today the WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1 has become a Working Group Note at the same time that the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1 became a W3C...
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Accessibility: Review of 2017 and Outlook for 2018
2017 was another busy year for the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). This includes developments in the technical and educational areas of WAI, as well as in international standards coordination...
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W3C Strategic Highlights: Web for All (Web Accessibility)
(This post is part of a series recapping the October 2018 W3C Strategic Highlights and does not include significant updates since that report.) W3C “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1”,...
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Making video pages for the W3C AC meeting
Most of the preparation for the May meeting of W3C’s Advisory Committee was already done when it became clear that travel was not going to be possible, due to COVID-19. It had to be a ‘virtual’...
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