RE: Call for Consensus: Publish HTML Image Descriptions as Last Call

I support the CFC to publish HTML Image Descriptions as a last call working draft.

Léonie.


-----Original Message-----
From: Charles McCathie Nevile [mailto:chaals@yandex-team.ru] 
Sent: 24 June 2013 18:17
To: public-html-a11y@w3.org
Subject: Call for Consensus: Publish HTML Image Descriptions as Last Call

Hi,

this is a call for consensus on the proposal:

THe HTML Accessibility Task Force requests that the HTML and PF Working Groups jointly publish a Last Call Working Draft of the HTML Image Description extension, based on the 24 June editor's draft at https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-proposals/raw-file/e2129bb908aa/longdesc1/longdesc.html

Silence will be taken as assent, but a positive response is preferred.  
Please respond to public-html-a11y@w3.org before the call closes at midnight on Monday 1 July (Hawaii Time zone).

Changes since the Second Public Working Draft of June 6 are editorial in nature. The most significant ones are identified at https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-proposals/raw-file/e2129bb908aa/longdesc1/longdesc.html#changes

There is one issue identified in the draft, which is a request for a better reference for checking accessibility of content. We have already agreed that if we don't find a more appropriate reference we will simply close the bug and leave it as is.

In addition, in a late comment on the last draft[1] Peter Gruzca foreshadowed a potential issue of changing the requirement for making longdesc discoverable from "should" to "must". In my reply[2], I have requested that if he wishes to formally propose the issue he does so as a comment on the Last Call (assuming we reach consensus and the Last Call is published).

[1]
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2013Jun/0064.html>
[2]
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2013Jun/0071.html>

cheers

Chaals

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