Re: CFC: Publish WCAG 2.1 FPWD

+1 support publishing FPWD

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Hakkinen, Mark T <mhakkinen@ets.org>
wrote:

> +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
> --
> Markku (Mark) T. Hakkinen, PhD
> Head - Accessibility, Standards, and Assistive Technology Research Group
> Center for Cognitive, Accessibility, and Technology Sciences
> Educational Testing Service
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>
> From: Kathy Wahlbin [mailto:kathy@interactiveaccessibility.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 10:47 AM
> To: Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>
> Cc: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> Subject: RE: CFC: Publish WCAG 2.1 FPWD
>
> +1  We support the publication of this FPWD
>
> Kathy
> CEO & Founder
> Interactive Accessibility
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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>
> Cc: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> 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
>
> akirkpat@adobe.com
> http://twitter.com/awkawk
>
>
>
>
> --
> John Foliot
> Principal Accessibility Strategist
> Deque Systems Inc.
> john.foliot@deque.com
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