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

ditto

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>


On 24 June 2013 18:33, Léonie Watson <tink@tink.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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