Re: 48-Hour Call for Consensus (CfC): New COGA Document FPWD

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JF

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 10:11 AM Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> wrote:

> Colleagues:
>
> This is a request from the Cognitive and Learning Disabilities (COGA) Task
> Force to both of COGA's parent WAI Working Groups, the Accessible Platform
> Architectures (APA) Working Group, and the Accessible Guidelines (AG)
> Working
> Group.
>
> This CfC seeks consensus to split the existing COGA Gap Analysis Working
> Draft
> publication into two separate note-track documents.
>
> As work on the existing Gap Analysis document has progressed, what began
> as an
> Appendix has grown in import and size to the extent that COGA now believes
> our
> target audience for these documents is better served by two separate
> documents
> rather than a single document. That is the basis for this CfC.
>
> If this Call for Consensus fails, no change will result.
>
> If the Call for Consensus is approved:
>
> 1. The existing COGA Gap Analysis document will be split into two separate
> note track documents as follows:
>
> - Gap Analysis
> https://w3c.github.io/coga/gap-analysis/
>
> - A First Public Working Draft (FPWD) of "Making content usable for people
> with cognitive and learning disabilities" will be authorized:
> https://w3c.github.io/coga/content-usable/
>
> 2. Standing permission for COGA to publish updated working drafts will be
> authorized for both documents.
>
> Please note that there is a 'Design Themes' section in the new document
> which
> has links to a third document. There is still discussion about the name and
> optimal disposition of that third document. Whether or not it eventually
> becomes an additional note track document is not part of this CfC.
>
> ACTION TO TAKE
>
> This CfC is now open for objection, comment, as well as statements of
> support
> via email. Silence will be interpreted as support, though messages of
> support
> are certainly welcome.
>
> If you object to this proposed action, or have comments concerning this
> proposal, please respond by replying on list to this message no later than
> 23:59 (Midnight)
> Boston Time, Tuesday 4 December.
>
> IMPORTANT: If you are a member of both AG and APA you should vote on both
> CfCs. AG and APA need to determine whether a consensus exists independently
> of each other.
>
> Thanking you for your attention on this question,
>
> Alastair Campbell
> AG Co-Chair
>
> Janina Sajka
> APA Chair
>
>
> --
>
> Janina Sajka
>
> Linux Foundation Fellow
> Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:       http://a11y.org
>
> The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
> Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures        http://www.w3.org/wai/apa
>
>
>

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