1. Web Advisory Committee May 20, 2009 Web accessiblity

2. Pending Ontario legislation Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act –Accessible Information & Communications Standard This standard will eventually become law

3. Questions 1.What are the technical requirements to comply with the legislation on web accessiblity? 2.What are other Ontario universities doing to address the pending legislated technical requirements? 3.What are our plans to help promote and ensure web accessiblity at Waterloo in compliance with the pending legislated technical requirements?

4. Technical requirements to comply with the legislation Two expected standards to comply with: W3C Web Content Accessiblity Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 - Level AA W3C Authoring Tool Accessiblity Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0

5. W3C Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 Still in draft mode Apply to software and services used to produce web pages and web content (e.g. HTML editors, CMSs, blogs, wikis, photo galleries) Address how authoring tools produce accessible web content and the accessibility of the web tools Complement the WCAG 2.0 guidelines http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/atag.php

6. W3C Web Content Accessiblity Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 – Level AA WCAG 2.0 released in December 2008 Level AA in 2.0 versus Priority 2 in 1.0 Level AA means compliance with A and AA Address how to provide web content that is accessible (e.g. providing text alternatives for non- text content like videos, providing website visitors with enough time to complete tasks, making web pages navigable by keyboard only)

7. Quick Reference for the Web Content Accessiblity Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Starting point: Quick Reference filtering by Level A, Level AA and Sufficient Techniques and Failures http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref /

8. Notes on federal laws and standards Canadian Human Rights Act CLF complies with WCAG 1.0 Priority 2 Reviewing WCAG 2.0