RE: CFC: Publish WCAG 2.1 FPWD

+1  ETS supports the publication of this FPWD, but has one suggestion for usability of the document:

Section 0.1 includes the sentences:

To differentiate new Success Criteria, they are labeled as "new" and displayed in a green box.

They are labeled as "proposed" and displayed in an orange box.

Searching for the word “new” takes you through 18 occurrences of the word new, while only two new SC are present. There are 96 occurrences of the word proposed while there are 26 proposed SC.

To aid readers, for example those who use AT, to quickly locate the new and proposed SC via search, it would be easier to indicate that a reader can search for “[New]” or “[Proposed]”, which is how they are indicated in the text.  However, CSS content before/after are used to place the square brackets around the words, and they are not searchable with the brackets using Firefox, Chrome or Safari (which I tested). Lacking any other searchable semantic markup or text that could be used to differentiate the SC, searching can be laborious.

Can this be fixed?  And if fixed, can the text in 0.1 be changed to something similar to that below?

To differentiate new Success Criteria, they are labeled as "new", searchable via the text "[New]", and displayed in a green box.

They are labeled as "proposed", searchable via the text "[New]" and displayed in an orange box.

Thanks for considering this change.

Mark
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Center for Cognitive, Accessibility, and Technology Sciences
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From: Kathy Wahlbin [mailto:kathy@interactiveaccessibility.com]
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Subject: RE: CFC: Publish WCAG 2.1 FPWD

+1  We support the publication of this FPWD

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From: John Foliot [mailto:john.foliot@deque.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 2:06 PM
To: Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>
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Subject: Re: CFC: Publish WCAG 2.1 FPWD

Deque Systems strongly supports this CfC.

JF

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com> wrote:
Call For Consensus — ends Thursday February 23th at 1:30pm Boston time.

The Working Group discussed the latest editor’s draft of WCAG 2.1 (https://rawgit.com/w3c/wcag21/FPWD_review/guidelines/index.html) and basedon a survey (https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/WCAG21FWPD/results) and a Working Group call (http://www.w3.org/2017/02/21-ag-minutes.html) where the majority of comments were
resolved and no blocking issues remained.

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.

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.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Standards and Accessibility
Adobe

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