- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 07:13:59 -0500
- To: Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com>
- CC: Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>, "public-html-a11y@w3.org" <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, Jatinder Mann <jmann@microsoft.com>, Dominic Mazzoni <dmazzoni@chromium.org>
On 12/04/2013 11:01 PM, Rik Cabanier wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net
> <mailto:rubys@intertwingly.net>> wrote:
>
> On 12/04/2013 10:32 PM, Rik Cabanier wrote:
>
> The decision was NOT that focus rings should be removed from the
> at-risk
> list. It was that they should stay as at-risk.
>
> This seems rather unlikely as it isn't permitted by the Charter:
>
> http://www.w3.org/2013/09/__html-charter.html#decisions
> <http://www.w3.org/2013/09/html-charter.html#decisions>
>
> Specifically:
>
> The group must not record any final decisions without first
> allowing for remote asynchronous participation in the decision
>
> What seems more likely to have occurred is that the collectively
> input of the people who happened to be in the room at the time was
> to recommend that focus rings stay as at-risk. That certainly is
> fair and reasonable, but does not in any way remove the rights of
> members of the working group who were not present to participate in
> the discussion.
>
> So no decision was made? What does this mean then:
>
> The Resolution is therefore: The HTML Accessibility Task Force requests
> that the HTML Working Group maintain the *FocusRing(element) methods in
> the Canvas 2d context specification, marking them "at risk". [1]
>
> or is a 'resolution' not a 'decision'?
I'll repeat what Paul said previously:
a) the A11Y TF Coordinators only ruled on the TF CfC on this topic on Dec 3:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2013Dec/0006.html
> 1: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2013Dec/0006.html
Note the URLs match. And even the wording you quoted ("requests")
matches what I said likely happened ("recommend").
From an HTML WG point of view, progress is gated by the bugs listed in
4d here:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-wg-announce/2013OctDec/0015.html
- Sam Ruby
Received on Thursday, 5 December 2013 12:14:28 UTC