Authorized Translation of WCAG 2.1 to German

This repository is used to manage the German translation of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1.

Working Draft

This is the current working draft, which will have the latest information rendered:

https://outline-rocks.github.io/wcag/guidelines/index-flat.html (This link will show an in-progress working draft. Rely on the links below for static versions, for example, for commenting.)

Published Versions

Newest first:

• Latest Version (This link will change to reflect the latest document below.)

• CAT-WCAG21-DE-20220506 (This document will not change.)

• CAT-WCAG21-DE-20211004 (This document will not change.)

• Draft AT-WCAG21-DE-20211004 (This document will not change.)

• Draft AT-WCAG21-DE-20210616 (This document will not change.)

• Draft AT-WCAG21-DE-20210426 (This document will not change.)

Errata

• Errata (Will only be updated after the Authorized Translation is published.)

Translator Notes

• The links to the WCAG 2.1 Quick Reference fail for technical reasons. This will be addressed before sending the document to W3C as an official Candidate Authorized Translation.
• The links to the WCAG 2.1 Understanding Documents fail for technical reasons. This will be addressed before sending the document to W3C as an official Candidate Authorized Translation.
• All WCAG 2.0 content that was available in German was carried over from the existing translation.
• New sections that are new translations have a thick border around them to be easily distinguishable from existing text.
• In addition, much of the introductory section has been updated. The section “Vergleich zu WCAG 2.0” has been completely translated.
• The enumeration of the first section, Introduction, should start with “0.” but does not for technical reasons. This will be addressed before sending the document to W3C as an official Candidate Authorized Translation.
• Several placeholders in the header area will be filled out at a later date as they are dependent on W3C’s translation process.

How to Contribute

Feel free to send in suggestions to the translation either

• through a Github Issue.
• by editing a file directly and sending in a “Pull Request”. The files can be found in the /guidelines/ directory.
• by sending an email to the W3C Mailinglist for Authorized Translations to German. Note that you have to confirm the first email that you send to the list.

Please include a pointer to the part translation you’d like to change and reasoning on why the change should happen.