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Re: 2 things: WAI WCAG 2.0; Jakob Nielsen.

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From: Kynn Bartlett
Date: Dec 5, 2001 11:37AM


At 12:26 PM -0500 12/5/01, Carol Foster wrote:
>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.

I'm not sure. I'm on the working group, and I don't think we have a
definite timeline set yet. Some more wordsmithing and organization is
necessary, and the big challenge currently seems to be conformance/
reporting schemes.

>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/

Well, hopefully he'll put it in a future book or something. Things
like this make me think I'm a bit of a fool for giving away advice
for free or cheap! ;)

- --Kynn

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