Re: CFC: Publish WCAG 2.1 FPWD

+1 to publish  
  
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Shwetank Dixit

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On Feb 21 2017, at 11:58 pm, Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com> wrote:  

> Call For Consensus — ends Thursday February 23th at 1:30pm Boston time.

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> The Working Group discussed the latest editor’s draft of WCAG 2.1 ([https://
rawgit.com/w3c/wcag21/FPWD_review/guidelines/index.html](https://rawgit.com/w3
c/wcag21/FPWD_review/guidelines/index.html&r=dzNjLXdhaS1nbEB3My5vcmc=)) and
basedon a survey ([https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/WCAG21FWPD/results](ht
tps://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/WCAG21FWPD/results&r=dzNjLXdhaS1nbEB3My5vcm
c=)) and a Working Group call ([http://www.w3.org/2017/02/21-ag-
minutes.html](http://www.w3.org/2017/02/21-ag-
minutes.html&r=dzNjLXdhaS1nbEB3My5vcmc=)) where the majority of comments were

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> resolved and no blocking issues remained.

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> On the call people believed that we had reached a consensus position that
the Working Group should publish the Editor's Draft as the First Publish
Working Draft (FPWD). This will allow the group to meet its charter deadline.
The Working Group included several SC that do not have Working Group
consensus, but the Working Group did have consensus that publishing was
valuable in order to get additional feedback from the public, and notes were
included in the draft to point out aspects that do not have consensus at this
time.

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> If you have concerns about this proposed consensus position that have not
been discussed already and feel that those concerns result in you “not being
able to live with” this decision, please let the group know before the CfC
deadline.

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> Thanks,

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> AWK

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> Andrew Kirkpatrick

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> Group Product Manager, Standards and Accessibility

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> Adobe

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