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Many people started to call the completed document a "VPAT" but the wider procurement community would prefer to call it a product Accessibility Conformance Report, or ACR. The distinction is that the VPAT is the incomplete form, and the ACR is the completed report using the VPAT template.
The approach to make Wikipedia accessible is based on the W3C's official WCAG 2.0 (a.k.a. ISO/IEC 40500:2012) and ATAG 2.0 guidelines. The guidelines provided by this accessibility project are merely an attempt to reword the WCAG 2.0 into a guideline hopefully easier to understand for editors who are not familiar with accessibility or web development.
On the WikiMedia Foundation level however, there is a strong need for an accessibility policy. MediaWiki itself should be accessible. But is should also conform to the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) in order to enable users to create accessible content. The WMF should make it a priority and set up a plan to meet those goals.
How to Meet WCAG 2.0, A customizable quick reference to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 requirements (success criteria) and techniques; WebAIM's WCAG 2.0 Checklist; Involving Users in Evaluating Web Accessibility, pay attention to the high numbers of cautions: one should be very cautious when evaluating accessibility. It's a delicate job.
A draft is ready to be implemented in Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (accessibility) once it's marked as "reviewed by an accessibility expert and ready for implementation". Criteria on this page are prioritized according to impact (W3C's accessibility level of priorities: A, AA or AAA) and degree of feasibility (with MediaWiki's syntax and the ...
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Accessibility, a group of editors promoting better access for disabled or otherwise disadvantaged users. For more information, such as what you can do to help, see the main project page. Accessibility Wikipedia:WikiProject Accessibility Template:WikiProject Accessibility Accessibility
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The first web accessibility guideline was compiled by Gregg Vanderheiden and released in January 1995, just after the 1994 Second International Conference on the World-Wide Web (WWW II) in Chicago (where Tim Berners-Lee first mentioned disability access in a keynote speech after seeing a pre-conference workshop on accessibility led by Mike Paciello).