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AGWG Joint Meetings

TPAC 2024

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Accessible Platform Architectures & Accessibility Guidelines

Goal: Introduce WCAG 3 and discuss ways to contribute

Agenda

    • Current Status
    • Content maturity and publication approach
    • Discussion: Best ways to engage in work

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ARIA & Accessibility Guidelines

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Goal: Introduce WCAG 3 and discuss ways to contribute

Agenda

    • Introductions
    • Current Status
    • Content maturity and publication approach
    • Discussion: Best ways to engage in WCAG 3 work
  • IRC Channel: #AG

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WCAG 3 Current Status

  • Establishing publishing cadence with next publication in Q4 of 2024
  • Goal for this charter is to deliver:
    • Structure for Guidelines and Outcomes
    • Initial conformance model
    • Publication approach
    • Schedule, based on data, for finishing
  • IRC Channel: #AG

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Proposed Structure

  • Guidelines are high level, plain language
    • Guidelines include Outcomes and Assertions organized into a tree structure
  • Outcomes are more specific, outcome based, closer to SC
  • Assertions are clear and documented statement from a person or organization about a procedure.
  • Outcomes and Assertions link to How To Documents
    • Methods are technology specific
  • Guidelines
    • Outcomes (normative)
      • How to Documents (informative)
        • Methods (informative)
    • Assertions (normative)
      • How to Documents (informative)
        • Methods (informative)

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Outcome Levels (Pre TPAC)

  • Prerequisite (small subset)
    • Safety Issues, needed for AT to work, likely to prevent task completion even with ideal current AT support.
  • Baseline (larger subset) -
    • Author provided methods that aren’t currently met by AT, applicable to all sites and products.
  • Enhanced
    • Can be met in other ways, or may be domain specific.

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Possible Models (Pre TPAC)

Baseline plus % based levels

Level 1: Baseline (PreReq + Baseline)

Level 2: Baseline + x% of Enhanced Outcomes

Level 3: Baseline + x+y% of Enhanced Outcomes

Prerequisite, Baseline & % of enhanced

Level 1: Prerequisite

Level 2: Baseline

Level 3: Prerequisite + Baseline + z% of Enhanced Outcomes

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Maturity levels / Section status labels

From Maturity Labeling Process

Placeholder - AG has identified we need content but do not yet know what it should look like

Exploratory - AG is exploring one or more possible directions for this content

Developing - AG has high confidence in the direction and some confidence in the details

Refining - AG has high confidence in the direction and moderate confidence in the details

Mature - Content is believed to be ready to become a W3C Recommendation

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AGWG Next Steps

  • Question: What happens if AG identifies something that needs new features?

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  • Continue to experiment with existing work
  • Explore alternative conformance models
    • Break down guidance into only 2 levels and more than 3 levels
    • Explore reporting or leveling by functional need
  • Document which outcomes would be cumulative

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Best ways to engage in work

  • Each publication we will provide:
    • Updated content
    • Key questions based on what we delivered and the content’s maturity
  • We plan on providing town hall style opportunities for those outside the group to engage
  • What is the best way for your group to engage with us?
    • When?
    • How?

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Reference Slides

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Key Links

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