Re: roadmap for inclusion of people with cognitive disabilities

Lisa,

If you want to setup an adhoc discussion on your proposal, please let me
know and I will join.

Thanks,
Bryan Sullivan
On Apr 22, 2013 9:42 AM, "Charles McCathie Nevile" <chaals@yandex-team.ru>
wrote:

> Hi Lisa,
>
> On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 08:52:38 +0300, lisa.seeman <lisa.seeman@zoho.com>
> wrote:
>
>  Over the weekend I put up a (very) draft outline for a roadmap for
>> inclusion of people with cognitive disabilities. See
>> http://athenatechnologies.org/**RoadmapCog01.html<http://athenatechnologies.org/RoadmapCog01.html>.
>> The most relivent part is probebly the specification suggestion at
>> http://athenatechnologies.org/**RoadmapCog01.html#**specification<http://athenatechnologies.org/RoadmapCog01.html#specification>
>> .
>>
>> Do you think we should set some time at the FTF to see how WebAPPs can
>> fit in?
>>
>
> Hi Lisa,
>
> After talking to my co-chair, we believe are not ready to schedule WebApps
> time for this. The draft is at too early and too conceptual a stage so far.
> Web Apps generally works on a more or less concrete proposal for a given
> API or set of APIs (and assocaited markup as relevant).
>
> We don't think the group has the necessary expertise and understanding to
> be an effective place to develop the work from its current stage.
>
> If you will be at the meetings I encourage you to talk to *people* from
> Web Apps, and explain the direction you are working in, to see if they can
> offer insight or if you can offerit to them. But I think that at this stage
> you should be developing this further in WAI before coming back to Web Apps
> with a potential proposal for work. (There may be resistance there to some
> of the things you are aiming to do, but it is less than in other places,
> and there is more expertise there than in other parts of W3C).
>
> Cheers
>
> Chaals
>
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