About page content

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In the WAI “minimal header” design, the About page is designed primarily for new users. We think most people who have a sense of what ARIA Authoring Practices are not follow the “About” link.

The About page briefly explains the specific resource suite (that is, Supplemental Guidance or Authoring Practices). It does not cover parent information and instead links to it elsewhere, to avoid overlapping info. This is a principle that the WAI website follows to limit user confusion and to simplify maintenance.

For example, notice About Supplemental Guidance has one sentence of what WCAG is, then links to the WCAG Overview. Then one sentence about the additional resources, then links to the WCAG 2 Documents.

About pages have a brief Summary at the top like the main WAI website.

Some About pages will include Acknowledgements, and that section is collapsed by default.

fyi, When linking to these resources from WAI website pages, we are usually linking to both the About page and the first list/index page. For example:

Cognitive Accessibility Guidance — short design patterns, explained briefly in About Supplemental Guidance

and

• About WCAG 2 Test Rules
• All WCAG 2 Test Rules List

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**Questions:**

1. Are there compelling reasons to do anything different with the About ARIA Authoring Practices page? -- other than cooler visual design

2. What of the info that’s in the draft now will stay or go elsewhere?

3. Do we want to update anything in the ARIA Overview (other than changing the links to Authoring Practices)?

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This page could have some of the fancy visual design aspects of the drafted home page