WAI develops strategies, standards, supporting resources to make tech accessible to people with disabilities. Accessibility: Essential for some, useful for all.
We encourage you to start with online resources from W3C WAI. They cover a wide range of situations: "Where do I start?", "Why is it important to include people with disabilities in the process?" & much more. See annotated list of #a11y resources: w3.org/WAI/resources/
For example:
Video Introduction to Web Accessibility and W3C Standards
w3.org/WAI/videos/standards-…
is a 4-minute video that introduces @W3C WAI's perspective that Web accessibility is:
✨Essential for some, useful for all.✨
(more in w3.org/WAI/perspective-video…)
The @W3C WAI Pronunciation Task Force has been exploring this from multiple perspectives: users, content providers, voice assistant developers (“implementors”). For an intro to the issues and links to analysis documents, see:
Pronunciation Overview
w3.org/WAI/pronunciation/
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We pronounce the acronym W-A-I as “way”, but #ScreenReaders and voice assistants often pronounce it “why”. e-#GAAD If only we could define how to pronounce it…
This is one example of the reason for W3C work on pronunciation standards. There are more serious examples. (1/3)#a11y
That page in العربية , čeština , Deutsch , Ελληνικά , español , français , Bahasa Indonesia , 日本語 , 한국어 , Nederlands , Português do Brasil , русский , язык , 简体汉语 plus additional subtitles فارسی , ગુજરાતી , हिंदी , Magyar , Italiano , कोंकणी , മലയാളം , मराठी , తెలుగు
Indeed it did. We need to update that in a couple of places. (please don't go looking for them ;-)
It is now updated in w3.org/WAI/standards-guideli…
(And I say thank you for the note -- and it's nice to know folks are reading carefully!) ~Shawn
Agree some will end up on specific page, not overview. Date was already there, e.g., "Last Updated: 4 April 2017 – Added Netherlands accessibility laws and policies." It's just not as clearly highlighted. Will consider for next update. Thanks.
Yes, it needs updating. Thankfully we recently got resources to update it. That should happen later this year.
I added an additional note to the top of the first page to help people know that it’s not the latest info now. ~Shawn