Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities 2020-07-17 > 2020-09-04

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• name of spec to be reviewed: Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities

• URL of spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/2020/WD-coga-usable-20200717/

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Abstract

This document is for people who make Web content (Web pages) and Web applications. It gives advice on how to make content usable for people with cognitive and learning disabilities.

This document has content about:

• people with learning and cognitive disabilities,
• aims and objectives for usable content,
• design patterns (ways) to make content usable,
• including users in design and testing activities, and
• personas (examples) and user needs.

The Objectives and Patterns presented here provide supplemental guidance beyond the requirements of WCAG. Following the guidance in this document is not required for conformance to WCAG. However, following this guidance will increase accessibility for people with cognitive and learning disabilities.

Status of the Document

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at https://www.w3.org/TR/.

This is a Working Draft by the Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force (Coga TF) of the Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group and the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group. This version has been enhanced from the previous version to focus on an audience of designers and developers, and provide comprehensive user stories and design patterns. Please find the change log for those changes in this Working Draft. This document is ready for wide review prior to finalization as a Working Group Note.

The COGA TF encourages feedback on any aspect of the document. All comments are welcome. Some comments may not be addressed in the first Working Group Note, but will be considered for a later version of the Note. The TF would particularly like feedback on the following questions:

• Are any user needs or patterns missing or incorrect?
• Are there sections that are hard to understand?

This document was published by the Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group and the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group as a Working Draft.

To comment, file an issue in the W3C coga GitHub repository. If this is not feasible, send email to public-cognitive-a11y-tf@w3.org (archives). Comments are requested by 04 September 2020. In-progress updates to the document may be viewed in the publicly visible editors' draft.

Publication as a Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.

This document was produced by groups operating under the W3C Patent Policy. The groups do not expect this document to become a W3C Recommendation. W3C maintains a public list of any patent disclosures (Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group) and a public list of any patent disclosures (Accessibility Guidelines Working Group) made in connection with the deliverables of each group; these pages also include instructions for disclosing a patent. An individual who has actual knowledge of a patent which the individual believes contains Essential Claim(s) must disclose the information in accordance with section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy.