[community] FW: For Review: Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities First Public Working Draft, and Cognitive Accessibility Roadmap and Gap Analysis

[Harnum, Alan]

Two WAI documents of potential interest in the cognitive accessibility space.

From: Roy Ran <ran at w3.org>
Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 4:18 AM
To: "public-wai-announce at w3.org" <public-wai-announce at w3.org>
Subject: For Review: Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities First Public Working Draft, and Cognitive Accessibility Roadmap and Gap Analysis
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Resent-Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 4:14 AM


Dear WAI Interest Group List Subscribers,

The Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group<https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/> and the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group<https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/> have published a First Public Working Draft as well as an updated working draft, in total 2 documents from Coga Task Force as follows:

1. First Public Working Draft (FPWD):

Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities

https://www.w3.org/TR/coga-usable

2. Updated Working Draft:

Cognitive Accessibility Roadmap and Gap Analysis

https://www.w3.org/TR/coga-gap-analysis/

The Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities<https://www.w3.org/TR/coga-usable> document is for people who make Web content (Web pages) and Web applications. It gives advice on how to make websites and applications that are friendly for people with cognitive impairments by providing guidance for your designs, and design process. It was previously an appendix to Cognitive Accessibility Roadmap and Gap Analysis, the Coga Task Force has now decided to publish it as a separate document.

The Cognitive Accessibility Roadmap and Gap Analysis<https://www.w3.org/TR/coga-gap-analysis/> explores user needs for people with cognitive or learning disabilities and identifies where additional web content authoring guidance is needed to help authors meet these needs. This information is important to new guidance being added to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1. This updated document separated the Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities document which originally as an appendix to this document, and published it.

To comment, file an issue in the W3C coga GitHub repository<https://github.com/w3c/coga/issues/new>. If this is not feasible, send email to public-cognitive-a11y-tf at w3.org<mailto:public-cognitive-a11y-tf at w3.org> (subscribe<mailto:public-cognitive-a11y-tf at w3.org?subject=subscribe>, archives<https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-cognitive-a11y-tf/>). Comments are requested by 14 January 2019. In-progress updates to the document may be viewed in the publicly visible editors' draft for coga-usable<http://w3c.github.io/coga/content-usable/> and coga-gap-analysis<http://w3c.github.io/coga/gap-analysis/>.



Regards,
Janina Sajka, APA WG Chair,
Andrew Kirkpatrick, AGWG WG Chair,
Alastair Campbell, AGWG WG Chair,
Lisa Seeman, COGA TF Chair,
Michael Cooper, W3C Staff Contact,
Roy Ran, W3C Staff Contact