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From: Carol Foster
Date: Dec 5, 2001 11:30AM


Hello,

First thing: I am curious about the timeframe expected for the WAI's
WCAG 2.0 to become the official recommendation. Do any of you who work
with them have any guesses? I just started looking at some of the draft
documents and found the checkpoint mapping between WCAG 1.0 items and
draft 2.0 items very interesting (at
http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2001/08/24-mapping.html ), but am not sure how
much I should be concerned about it at this time.

Second thing: I was very pleased to hear a while back that usability
guru Jakob Nielsen was doing some Web accessibility studies, and now he
and a colleague have a report out. Unfortunately, it costs $190! With
the budget cutbacks we're experiencing, I don't know if I'll be able to
get a copy. Has anyone seen it? There is an Alertbox article at
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20011111.html . The download info, table
of contents and summary of the full report are at
http://www.nngroup.com/reports/accessibility/

Thanks,
Carol

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