Re: Word count of New SC compared to WCAG 2

Hi Andrew

I think the purpose of the Word count has to do with the group's self
imposed deadline for the FPWD which is 7 Tuesday's away rather than the
final draft which is about 60 Tuesdays away. I would rather not release a
FPWD that more than doubles the size of WCAG.

I think Leonie has the right idea, that we release the FPWD with the SCs
that have been vetted and accepted but the WG (in a general sense), rather
than putting all 63 new ones out there.

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On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>
wrote:

> David,
> I think that raw word count of draft SC's is not a productive exercise for
> comparison. The SC proposals are not finalized SC’s.
>
> Thanks,
> AWK
>
> Andrew Kirkpatrick
> Group Product Manager, Standards and Accessibility
> Adobe
>
> akirkpat@adobe.com
> http://twitter.com/awkawk
>
> From: David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca>
> Date: Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 13:06
> To: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> Subject: Word count of New SC compared to WCAG 2
> Resent-From: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> Resent-Date: Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 13:07
>
> As a follow up to the concern raised at the end of the call. I've done a
> word count of the total new SCs proposed text (not the Understanding etc...)
>
> - New SC proposals = 63 SCs (4697 Words)
>
> The Current WCAG 2.0
>
> - 62 SCs at AAA 3318 words
>
> If we release the 2.1 FPWD on February 27 as scheduled (7 Tuesday's away),
> with these new SCs, we will have 125 Success Criteria in the WCAG 2.1 First
> Public Working Draft, and it will be 8015 Words (over 2x the size of WCAG
> 2). I'm sure we'll do some work on it over the next 7 weeks but I'm
> concerned that the world is watching for WCAG next, and has been waiting
> over 8 years. Is this the first thing we want to release to these
> stakeholders in 8 years?
>
> I think we may want to postpone our release date for the FPWD, until we
> can parse these, figure out how we are going to organize them and make some
> preliminary vetting.
>
> What do others think?
>
> Cheers,
> David MacDonald
>
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