Call for Review: WCAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft

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The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has been hard at work over the last few months to review comments submitted in response to thier previous Last Call. Below are the details of the next Last Call, how you can provide feedback and information about other documents that have also been updated:

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group invites you to review the second WCAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft published on 11 December 2007. WCAG 2.0 explains how to make Web sites, applications, and other content accessible to people with disabilities. Please submit any comments on the second WCAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft by 1 February 2008. This second WCAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft is provided for public review of the document now that it has all resolutions from previous comments incorporated. The WCAG Working Group hopes that it has resolved all substantive issues with this draft, and looks forward to progressing to the next stages in completing WCAG 2.0. The next stages are described in How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process. The different WCAG 2.0 documents that the WCAG Working Group updated are introduced in Overview of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Documents.

A key tool for reviewing and working with WCAG 2.0 documents is WCAG 2.0 Quick Reference. For a summary of issues, revisions, and rationales on WCAG 2.0 Working Drafts - such as coverage of cognitive disabilities and testability - see Issues and Changes to WCAG 2.0. Note that the navigation between the documents is changed in these drafts. Now each topic in "Understanding WCAG 2.0" and "Techniques for WCAG 2.0" is in a separate small Web page. When you review the updated documents, if there are any significant additional issues that you feel could present a barrier to adoption and implementation of WCAG 2.0, please submit comments by Friday 1 February 2008. Please use the comment form or the email address provided in Instructions for Commenting on WCAG 2.0 Documents.

Comments in support of progressing WCAG 2.0 to the next stages are also welcome. WCAG 2.0 is part of a series of accessibility guidelines/standards developed by WAI, which are listed in WAI Guidelines and Techniques.