Gian Wild was an Invited Expert of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group for six years. She also lodged the most comments on the first draft released to the general public.

Meetings

As part of the Working Group, Gian attended weekly 2 hour teleconferences. These teleconferences dealt with specific issues around WCAG2 and included writing new success criteria and determining guidelines. Public minutes of the WCAG Working Group teleconferences are available. She also attended a three day Working Group conference in Seattle in 2005, and was on the cognitive disability taskforce.

Contribution to WCAG2

Although Gian was involved in numerous areas of WCAG2 over the six years she was an Invited Expert, there are specific success criteria she was involved in developing:

• Success Criterion 1.3.2 Meaningful Sequence: When the sequence in which content is presented affects its meaning, a correct reading sequence can be programmatically determined. (Level A)
• Success Criterion 2.2.1 Timing Adjustable: For each time limit that is set by the content, at least one of the following is true… (Level A)
• Success Criterion 2.2.2 Pause, Stop, Hide: For moving, blinking, scrolling, or auto-updating information, all of the following are true… (Level A)
• Success Criterion 2.2.3 No Timing: Timing is not an essential part of the event or activity presented by the content, except for non-interactive synchronized media and real-time events. (Level AAA)
• Success Criterion 2.2.4 Interruptions: Interruptions can be postponed or suppressed by the user, except interruptions involving an emergency. (Level AAA)
• Success Criterion 2.2.5 Re-authenticating: When an authenticated session expires, the user can continue the activity without loss of data after re-authenticating. (Level AAA)
• Success Criterion 2.4.3 Focus Order: If a Web page can be navigated sequentially and the navigation sequences affect meaning or operation, focusable components receive focus in an order that preserves meaning and operability. (Level A)
• Success Criterion 2.4.7 Focus Visible: Any keyboard operable user interface has a mode of operation where the keyboard focus indicator is visible. (Level AA)
• Success Criterion 2.4.9 Link Purpose (Link Only): A mechanism is available to allow the purpose of each link to be identified from link text alone, except where the purpose of the link would be ambiguous to users in general. (Level AAA)
• Success Criterion 3.1.2 Language of Parts: The human language of each passage or phrase in the content can be programmatically determined except for proper names, technical terms, words of indeterminate language, and words or phrases that have become part of the vernacular of the immediately surrounding text. (Level AA)
• Success Criterion 3.1.3 Unusual Words: A mechanism is available for identifying specific definitions of words or phrases used in an unusual or restricted way, including idioms and jargon. (Level AAA)
• Success Criterion 3.1.4 Abbreviations: A mechanism for identifying the expanded form or meaning of abbreviations is available. (Level AAA)
• Success Criterion 3.1.5 Reading Level: When text requires reading ability more advanced than the lower secondary education level after removal of proper names and titles, supplemental content, or a version that does not require reading ability more advanced than the lower secondary education level, is available. (Level AAA)
• Success Criterion 3.1.6 Pronunciation: A mechanism is available for identifying specific pronunciation of words where meaning of the words, in context, is ambiguous without knowing the pronunciation. (Level AAA)
• Success Criterion 3.3.1 Error Identification: If an input error is automatically detected, the item that is in error is identified and the error is described to the user in text. (Level A)
• Success Criterion 3.3.2 Labels or Instructions: Labels or instructions are provided when content requires user input. (Level A)
• Success Criterion 3.3.3 Error Suggestion: If an input error is automatically detected and suggestions for correction are known, then the suggestions are provided to the user, unless it would jeopardize the security or purpose of the content. (Level AA)
• Success Criterion 3.3.4 Error Prevention (Legal, Financial, Data): For Web pages that cause legal commitments or financial transactions for the user to occur, that modify or delete user-controllable data in data storage systems, or that submit user test responses, at least one of the following is true… (Level AA)
• Success Criterion 3.3.5 Help: Context-sensitive help is available. (Level AAA)
• Success Criterion 3.3.6 Error Prevention (All): For Web pages that require the user to submit information, at least one of the following is true: (Level AAA)