Re: Web standards, Openness and Transparency

Hello all

My name is Charlie Carter, and I operate a small web accessibility
consultancy here in Brisbane, Australia. Relatively new to the game but,
like Brian's intro below - I also share the same sentiments on keeping
engaged with the W3C's standards and future strategies. My goal has always
been to understand the needs of the end user and I'm putting myself out
there to participate and most importantly, learn more about an organisation
that I believe needs to do more to encourage people like myself - who are
young, energetic and enthusiastic in making a positive start for a career
focused on web accessibility.




On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Aug 5, 2014 6:21 PM, "Marcos Caceres" <marcos@marcosc.com> wrote:
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> > On August 5, 2014 at 4:05:01 PM, Arthur Barstow (art.barstow@gmail.com)
> wrote:
> > > > Everyone should feel free to
> > > send a short introduction to this list (and please do include
> > > your
> > > area(s) of interest vis-à-vis the group's scope).
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> My name is Brian Kardell and I think despite efforts in good faith and
> good intent, the philosophy and practice of standards orgs (not only w3c,
> but maybe especially w3c) are incomplete/inefficient and need revision in
> order to stay adaptive and relevant. I believe strongly that developers
> have an important role to play and that critical to long term success is to
> recognize the important reality of the role that we play and find ways to
> enfranchise them and efficiently deal with their ideas opinions and
> feedback to grow consensus, adoption and excitement through more
> evolutionary means.
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