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

On 01/21/2014 02:40 PM, Paul Cotton wrote:
> 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.

This call received ample support and a single objection:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-admin/2014Jan/0069.html

As that objection presented no new information and otherwise consisted 
of an unsubstantiated claim that longdesc is going to be obsoleted in 
the near future, this objection was not further considered.

This CfC passes.

> /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

- Sam Ruby

Received on Wednesday, 29 January 2014 12:12:14 UTC