[Update: Yes, it was an April Fool’s joke as most people had worked out, but we’re keeping it here with this disclaimer rather than removing the post.]
Well, it’s certainly caught a few people by surprise. It may seem like we’ve been all been going around in circles for a while on this, but the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.0 finally became a candidate recommendation on Friday. This was despite the last draft having a large number of
comments that were, apparently, still not addressed. Looking at the WCAG mailing list, it seems that much of the clearing up of these sticking points was largely down to the concerted efforts of invited expert Olivier Farlop (or Oli to his friends). So, after what has seemed like an absolute age, it seems like the joke’s on us - all that deliberation and argument, disagreement and opinion has been made a mockery of with this surprising announcement.
Lee Powell wrote:
Now I’m dizzy!
Round and round in circles
Posted on 01-Apr-07 at 9:13 am | Permalink
Peter Kröner - Die Kunst des Machbaren » Archiv » Überraschung: WCAG 2 fertiggestellt wrote:
[…] Das W3C kann offenbar doch ganz schnell sein wenn man nur will. Überraschenderweise wurde heute die finale Version der Web Content Accessibilty Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2), also der offiziellen W3C-Standards für zugängliche Websites, fertiggestellt. Dringende Leseempfehlung. […]
Posted on 01-Apr-07 at 9:42 am | Permalink
Weblog de Brainet » Archivo del weblog » Ya llegó la WCAG 2.0 wrote:
[…] WCAG 2.0 - Finally Here! […]
Posted on 01-Apr-07 at 11:48 am | Permalink
Charlie wrote:
Hmm, This Oliver chap sound intriguing. You could drop a few letter and move the remaining letters around and it would read April Fools. Nice.
Posted on 01-Apr-07 at 1:08 pm | Permalink
Barry McMullin wrote:
Nice one … you had me haring around all the usual places before the
penny finally dropped!
Posted on 01-Apr-07 at 2:16 pm | Permalink
Ben’s Blog » Aprilvissen wrote:
[…] De WCAG 2.0 is er uiteindelijk dan toch doorgekomen, en Google heeft zelf ook niet stilgezeten […]
Posted on 01-Apr-07 at 5:53 pm | Permalink
Gabraham-Himself wrote:
April’s Fool!
Or is it?
Posted on 01-Apr-07 at 9:35 pm | Permalink
No April fool behold today ¶ Personal Weblog of Joe Clark, Toronto wrote:
[…] Surely you saw the amusing chain letter on the accessibilitista blogs (viz Accessify) on April Fool’s Day: […]
Posted on 09-Apr-07 at 10:15 pm | Permalink
Don Crowley wrote:
April fool! It is still Working draft.See: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
It is now april 10th, time to take this joke down!
Posted on 10-Apr-07 at 8:04 am | Permalink
John Rang wrote:
Hahaha
Never thought serious sites like yours too can play April fool!
But we are all human after all–.
Posted on 26-Apr-07 at 4:50 pm | Permalink
Kredi wrote:
Hahahaa
was nice one
Posted on 18-Sep-07 at 6:40 am | Permalink
Chat wrote:
Hahaha
Posted on 24-Apr-08 at 1:48 pm | Permalink