RE: CfC: to maintain “Image Description Extension (longdesc)” Working Draft on the Recommendation track

I support this.


> From: Paul Cotton [mailto:Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 2:40 PM
> 
> This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to maintain the "Image
> Description Extension (longdesc)" Working Draft on the
> Recommendation track.  The most recent publication of this
> specification can be found at:
> 
>        http://www.w3.org/TR/html-longdesc/ 
> 
> The HTML WG "plan 2014" [1] encouraged the creation of extension
> specifications.  In some cases these extension specifications
> have been folded back into one of the current W3C HTML5
> specifications.  In this case the recommendation is to take the
> "Image Description Extension (longdesc)" Working Draft all the
> way to W3C Recommendation and to keep it separate from the
> underlying HTML5 specification.
> 
> This recommendations comes to the HTML WG and PF WG from the
> Accessibility Task Force whose decision on this matter is
> recorded here:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-
> a11y/2014Jan/0049.html
> 
> Silence will be taken to mean there is no objection, but positive
> responses are encouraged.  If there are no objections by Tuesday
> January 28, this resolution will carry.
> 
> /paulc
> HTML WG co-chair
> 
> [1] http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/html5-2014-plan.html 
> 
> Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
> 17 Eleanor Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K2E 6A3
> Tel: (425) 705-9596 Fax: (425) 936-7329
>

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