Draft #2 Msg to WHAT

Colleagues:

Below the changes we discussed during our teleconference today. If I've
missed any, please advise by COB Tuesday!

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Colleagues:

The Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Working Group of the W3C
hereby formally requests "adapt-" be designated a reserved prefix in
HTML 5. This request follows our in-person discussions during the W3C
TPAC recently concluded in Vancouver and logged here:

https://www.w3.org/2022/09/13-apa-minutes.html#t03

In response to our TPAC conversation, the following W3C issue indicates
WHAT's research has indicated the "adapt-" prefix should be web
compatible:

https://github.com/w3c/adapt/issues/222

NOTES:

1.)	As recommended during our TPAC conversation, the W3C WAI-Adapt Symbols Module forthcoming Candidate Recommendation draft
will utilize "adapt-". The current draft can be viewed here:

https://w3c.github.io/adapt/symbols/

2.)	The above specification relies normatively on a forthcoming W3C
Registry specification which will publish shortly as a W3C First Public
Working Draft (FPWD). The registry specification provides a mapping
between thousands of concepts expressed in common written language using
an industry-accepted index value to identify the user's understood AAC
symbol, as there are multiple, non mutually comprehendable symbol sets
in use.

https://w3c.github.io/adapt-registry/

For the very first time in web technology,  these two specifications
will together provide content creators a single,
internationally-supported  numeric attribute value which user agents can
then use to provide an individual user their preferred AAC symbolic
representation of that concept.


-- 

Janina Sajka (she/her/hers)
Accessibility Consultant https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa

Linux Foundation Fellow
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/board-of-directors-2/

Received on Monday, 7 November 2022 20:16:49 UTC