On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:35 PM, V Stuart Foote <vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu> wrote: > Rob, *, > >>... However, there was a confusing (to me) number of >>authorities for accessibility standards. > > It is really pretty simple--WCAG 2.0 is the gold standard for Web content, > and is applicable to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies > (ICT). National and International Standards bodies are basing conformance > against this standard. > > WCAG 2.0 A, AA, AAA ( also published as ISO/IEC 40500:2012 ) are functional > levels of conformance with accessibility standards. > http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag > > The reworked AOO Website should probably meet majority of WCAG v2.0 AA level > requirements. And Apache OpenOffice as a document preparation and review > program should also strive to meet WCAG level A & AA conformance criteria for > ICT (http://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2ict/ ). > > Fortunately much of that is accomplished for the website with valid HTML 5.0 > and WAI-ARIA markup. While the introduction of IAccessible2 to supplement > MSAA, and improvements in ATK and NSAccessibility move the office suite > proper into a better compliance with some notable shortcommings. > > In the United States, the existing Accessibility Board US Section 508 > requirements were loosely equivalent to WCAG v1, and are being rewritten to > match functional levels of WCAG 2.0 A & AA. The draft proposal for U.S. > conformance can be found here: > > http://www.access-board.gov/attachments/article/490/draft-rule.pdf > > Also, relevant parts of the European Union EN 301 549 ( > http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_en/301500_301599/301549/01.00.00_20/en_301549v010000c.pdf > ) as work of the European Commision (EC) Mandate M 376 ( > http://www.mandate376.eu/ ) are also based on WCAG v2.0 level A and AA. > > So running conformance validators for WCAG 2.0 A, AA, & AAA is probably the > correct choice in reworking the web site. >
Thanks for the explanation. One question: would we need to run against each of the profiles, or AAA include AA and A automatically? In other words, is AA a superset of A, and AAA a superset of AA? Or are they more like incremental rule sets, that need to be applied in addition to the base rule sets? Regards, -Rob > Stuart > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
