Re[2]: Let's add an approved date field to Failures and Techniques

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From: "Gian Wild" <gian@accessibilityoz.com>
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>That is an absolutely FANTASTIC idea!!
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I think this is a good idea, and would no have no objection.

Thanks

Josh


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>From: David MacDonald [mailto:david100@sympatico.ca]
>Sent: Tuesday, 26 April 2016 12:55 PM
>To: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>; w3c WAI List <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
>Subject: Let's add an approved date field to Failures and Techniques
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>I think we have a problem introducing failures that we will have
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>to address in WCAG.NEXT. I would like to propose a solution.
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>===Problem===
>WCAG was created to be an ever green document. The SCs are not
>technology dependent, non normative techniques and failures, can be
>created to address new realities that we see on the ground as the web
>develops. This has happened for techniques, but not failures. We have
>created about 150 new techniques since 2008, and only *3* (three)
>failures.
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>It is not from a lack of failure proposals, there have been plenty in
>8 years. However, it is almost impossible to gain consensus on a
>failure, because there are always a some voices that will not want to
>tighten things up, for various reasons, some of them I would agree
>with in some situations. Here are the main reasons its hard to pass a
>failure:
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>1) Fear that it changes the requirements of WCAG
>2) If not, a fear that there is a *percieved* change to WCAG
>3) Fear that pages that once passed will not pass after a new common
>failure is introduced.
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>====Solution=====
>Id' like to propose an "Approved date" field, to techniques and
>failures, which would be populated when we gained consensus on a
>technique or failure. This will give jurisdictions a tool to exempt
>failures that were created after a site was built.
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>Cheers,
>David MacDonald
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