Re: Renaming the Guideline it falls under. (was Re: CFC - Decision to keep 1.3.4 where it is)

I would not support renaming guidelines either within WCAG 2.x. Not after
having spent nearly 10 years working within this set of parameters. Within
the next generation of AG (Silver)? Sure. Within this one, that seems both
unrealistic and detrimental.


/Denis


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On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 4:55 PM, Jonathan Avila <jon.avila@levelaccess.com>
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> I would not be in support of renaming the guidelines as that in my opinion
> would break the backward compatibility of WCAG 2.1 – we could add new ones
> – but I think at this CR stage that is too late as well.
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> *To:* John Foliot <john.foliot@deque.com>; Michael Gower <
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> *Subject:* Re: Renaming the Guideline it falls under. (was Re: CFC -
> Decision to keep 1.3.4 where it is)
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> I’m inclined to agree with John – if we were going to rename guidelines we
> should have done that before CR. We can discuss and get Michael’s
> perspective also, but this seems problematic at this point.
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> *From: *John Foliot <john.foliot@deque.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 16:45
> *To: *Michael Gower <michael.gower@ca.ibm.com>
> *Cc: *Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>, WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> *Subject: *Renaming the Guideline it falls under. (was Re: CFC - Decision
> to keep 1.3.4 where it is)
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> That would run afoul of one of our mandated requirements: Backward
> compatibility
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> It is a great suggestion for the Silver TF however...
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> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 1:00 PM, Michael Gower <michael.gower@ca.ibm.com>
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> I can't live with us not making an attempt at a better analysis of SC
> classifications in general. After more consideration, I've realized we can
> likely have our cake and eat it too for 1.3.4 by renaming the Guideline it
> falls under. I've put my thoughts into a new comment
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> From:        Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>
> To:        WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> Date:        2018-03-15 08:34 AM
> Subject:        CFC - Decision to keep 1.3.4 where it is
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> Call For Consensus — ends Monday March 19th at 11:00am Boston time.
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> The Working Group has discussed a change which would move SC 1.3.4
> Identify Common Controls to Guideline 3.3. This CFC is to evaluate the
> apparent consensus to not move the SC. On the WG call there was a lower
> level of support to move the SC than to not move it.
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> Call minutes: https://www.w3.org/2018/03/13-ag-minutes.html#item02
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> being able to live with” this decision, please let the group know before
> the CfC deadline.
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