Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT)

Facilitator and Contacts

• Task Force co-facilitators:
  • Wilco Fiers, Deque Systems
  • Kathy Eng, Access Board
• Staff Contact: Daniel Montalvo

Announcements

No announcements at the moment.

Meetings and Communication

Weekly Teleconferences

ACT TF meets weekly on Thursdays from 09:00 to 10:00 AM ET:

• Meeting materials
  • Meeting minutes
  • Availability for ACT TF Teleconferences
  • Scribe rotation list
• IRC options
  • Join IRC channel (online using your browser)
  • Server: irc.w3.org; Port 6665, 6667, 21, or 994; Channel: #wcag-act

Meeting Minutes

Minutes from previous meetings are available.

Mailing Lists

The ACT TF uses the public-wcag-act@w3.org mailing list (mailing list archives) for email discussion. Participants are automatically added to the mailing list when they become a participant of the Task Force.

Tools and Information

• ACT TF Work Statement
• Wiki main page
  • ACT Overview
  • Meeting minutes (also see automatically collected minutes)
  • Availability for ACT TF Teleconferences
• Mailing list archive
• Teleconference logistics
  • Zoom and IRC setup
  • Scribing instructions
  • Scribe rotation list
• Face-to-face meetings
• GitHub repositories
  • ACT Spec (main)
  • ACT Rules
• Web-based surveys (WBS)

Current Work

See the wiki for current planning and draft documents.

Publications

Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.0

• W3C Standard: https://www.w3.org/TR/act-rules-format/
• Errata: https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/task-forces/conformance-testing/errata

Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.1

• First Public Working Draft: https://www.w3.org/TR/act-rules-format-1.1/
• Editor draft: https://w3c.github.io/wcag-act/act-rules-format.html

Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Repository

• Published rules: https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/act/#act-rules-repository
• GitHub repository: https://github.com/w3c/wcag-act-rules/

How to Comment, Contribute, and Participate

To join the ACT TF, individuals must be participants of the AG WG. Participants are expected to actively contribute to the work of the Task Force. If you are interested in participating in the ACT TF, please send e-mail to: Daniel Montalvo and include a little bit about what you’re interested in and how you think that you may be able to contribute to the Task Force. Then follow the AG Working Group participation procedures to join the Working Group, and once you have joined ask Daniel Montalvo to add you to the task force.

To contribute without joining the task force, see the AG Working Group contribute page for general instructions. To contribute to documents under development, see GitHub repository directly.

Current participants in the ACT TF.

Work Statement

The Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Task Force Work Statement defines the initial objective, scope, approach, and participation of the Task Force.