Hi Stuart,
Thanks for your much more extensive treatment of the subject. I had
thought only S508 would be sufficient, but I now stand corrected.
-Tyler
On 1/9/2014 9:35 PM, V Stuart Foote 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.
Stuart
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