[Building Sakai] Accessibility Statement Introduction / For Review

[Richwine, Brian L]

Hello,

The Sakai Accessibility Working Group would like your feedback.

As a first step towards developing accessibility goals, guidelines, and documentation for Sakai 3 development, the Accessibility Working Group has written a draft Sakai Accessibility Statement.

Please take a moment to review the following statement, and let us know if this statement meets your expectations for Sakai 3.

<statement>
Consistent with the goal to make Sakai the most innovative and powerful Collaboration and Learning Environment, the Sakai community with the support and encouragement of Sakai Foundation will ensure that all of the features of Sakai 3 (the next generation of Sakai) are accessible and usable by the greatest number of potential users, including users with disabilities.

To ensure this high level of accessibility for the greatest number of users, our goal is to design Sakai 3 to meet or exceed the accessibility design principals found in recognized international standards. Our goal is to meet all of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level A and AA Success Criteria and the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG).

To ensure Sakai 3 has as few accessibility barriers as possible and to provide a rich and enjoyable user experience for all users, Sakai will be developed using emerging standards and best practice design techniques (such as the WAI-ARIA Suite), and support existing and emerging adaptive technologies.

Leveraging accessibility experts in the Sakai Community, all future development in Sakai 3 will undergo usability and accessibility evaluations throughout the design and development process to ensure that it meets these goals.
</statement>

Note: Current accessibility documentation, end-user accessibility help documentation, contact information for reporting accessibility issues, and the methods and technical details used to achieve the accessibility goals are left to supporting documents and will be linked to from the page hosting the accessibility statement.

Does the statement show the appropriate commitment to accessibility for Sakai? Do the goals stated seem credible and reachable? Is the statement missing something that you expected?

Don't feel limited by these questions, any and all comments are welcome!

We are excited to hear your feedback.

Thank you,
  The Accessibility Working Group
  http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/2ACC/Accessibility+Working+Group

Brian Richwine
Adaptive Technology Support Specialist
Adaptive Technology and Accessibility Centers
Indiana University - Bloomington/Indianapolis
http://iuadapts.indiana.edu
(812) 856-4112

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/sakai-dev/attachments/20100303/a63b45da/attachment.html