Re: Reminder: WAI Coordination Call (WAICC) April 27: Agenda and Calling Information

Charles,

Thanks for the additional background and status update.

- Judy

On 4/26/2016 7:55 PM, Chaals McCathie Nevile wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 22:04:45 +0100, Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org> wrote:
>
> Regrets…
>
>> agenda+ html accessibility bug triage calls; participation welcome
>
> We're mostly through the accessibility bugs from Bugzilla, so this 
> week's call will probably mostly look at other bugs. Next week we 
> might go through and check the list of accessibility bugs again, 
> because some bugs probably won't have been dealt with as fast as we like.
>
> People are certainly welcome to take part in the call - or to 
> participate directly in discussion on github, with the caveat that 
> we'll ask for an IPR commitment if you propose anything that would be 
> a substantive change.
>
> Please note that we're not adding anything that is not implemented 
> interoperably, to ensure we can ship an HTML Recommendation this year. 
> Good ideas should instead be discussed first in the Web Platform 
> Incubator Community Group - https://discourse.wicg.io - to get some 
> implementation commitment, before bringing them to the HTML spec. We 
> hope for another version of HTML next year, so missing the deadline 
> isn't actually the end of the world.
>
> We're actually removing stuff that doesn't work in reality - although 
> since some of those things are good ideas, they have gone to the 
> incubator group to look for more commitment and/or getting them into 
> better shape. Some of those are accessibility features like 
> accessKeyLabel - which was only implemented once, with a load of bugs. 
> The experience showed that there were some good ideas in there and 
> some things that could be readily improved - in particular, the 
> aria-shortcuts work can benefit from learning some of the lessons, and 
> I hope that a vastly improved approach to shortcuts will be part of a 
> future version of HTML.
>
> cheers
>
> Chaals
>

-- 
Judy Brewer
Director, Web Accessibility Initiative
at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
32 Vassar St. Room G-526, MIT/CSAIL
Cambridge MA 02149 USA
www.w3.org/WAI/

Received on Wednesday, 27 April 2016 04:31:44 UTC