Decision on CfC: POE Use Cases and Requirements

Colleagues:

I'm resending this email because I neglected to change the subject line.
This is important for the archive. My apologies for the extra noise!

Here's the original message ...

Only messages supporting this CfC have been received. It is therefore
agreed as a consensus decision of APA, and our consensus comment will
now be forwarded.

The head of thread for this CfC can be found at:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-apa-admin/2019Feb/0005.html

Best,

Janina

Janina Sajka writes:
> Colleagues:
> 
> This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to the Accessible Platform
> Architectures (APA) Working Group on a proposed APA comment to the
> Permissions & Obligations Expression (POE) Working Group, concerning
> their now stable Use Cases and Requirements document
> 
> **Background**
> 
> The Abstract of this POE document states:
> 
> "This document includes a set of use cases and requirements, compiled by
> the Permissions & Obligations Expression (POE) Working Group, that
> motivate the expression of statements about digital content usage. All
> use cases provide realistic examples describing how people and
> organisations may (or want to be able to) specify statements about
> digital content usage. The requirements derived from these use cases
> will be used to guide the development of the POE WG recommendation
> deliverables for the Information Model, Vocabulary, and Encodings."
> 
> **Suggested Comment**
> 
> The Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Working Group has reviewed
> the POE's Use Cases and Requirements document at:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/poe-ucr/
> 
> 
> We were unable to find  the following accessibility use case in this document and request it be added to this document and appropriately addressed in all resulting normative specifications.
> 
> Historically, similar schemes have been used to deny content access to
> assistive technology users, e.g. Microsoft Reader, Adobe PDF (which to
> this day includes a checkbox for denying AT access).
> 
> POE  should clearly state its intention to include alternate access
> technologies among it's licensed uses, and require implementing
> technologies to insure they will not be blocked, neither intentionally
> nor incidentally.
>  
> *       ACTION TO TAKE
> 
> This CfC is now open for objection, comment, as well as statements of
> support via email. Silence will be interpreted as support, though
> messages of support are certainly welcome.
> 
> If you object to this proposed action, or have comments concerning this
> proposal, please respond by replying on list to this message no later
> than 23:59 (Midnight) Boston Time, Sunday 17 February.
> 
> NOTE: This Call for Consensus is being conducted in accordance with the
> APA Decision Policy published at:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/decision-policy
> 
> Reference: APA Action-2185
> https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/track/actions/2185
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Janina Sajka
> 
> Linux Foundation Fellow
> Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org
> 
> The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
> Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa
> 

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Janina Sajka

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa

Received on Wednesday, 20 February 2019 01:13:30 UTC