- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:08:38 +0200
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Hi, At 12:42 18/07/2008, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: >David, > >in reference to your comment "his line" can I refer you to the >formal objection to WCAG2 to which every single representative, of >around 40 active groups that were asked, signed? Do you mean a formal objection to their charter or list policy? (I had a brief look at some recent discussion and read sneers like "And what about people in comas or dead people? Aren't we discriminating against them by using communication that they cannot understand? Dead people represent a much larger portion of humanity than illiterate people" and statements like "I think that if you like to write in pictograms, you would have much more communicative effect if you used simplified Chinese, which derives its symbols from word pictures".) Best regards, Christophe P.S. The formal objection mentioned above was to the last call working draft from April 2006, which has been superseded by three newer versions. >regards > >Jonathan Chetwynd > ><mailto:j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>j.chetwynd@btinternet.com >http://www.openicon.org/ > >+44 (0) 20 7978 1764 > >> >>The immediate trigger for this was when a well known personality, >>known for stretching W3C list charters, and who actually dropped >>out of this list because it wasn't following his line, strayed into >>www-style on a cross post, but my feeling that that the charter is >>being used to limit relevant debate on the philosophy behind the >>web goes back further than that. >> >> >>-- >>David Woolley >>Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. >>RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, >>that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work. -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442 B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ --- Please don't invite me to LinkedIn, Facebook, Quechup or other "social networks". You may have agreed to their "privacy policy", but I haven't. Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
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