48-Hour Call for Consensus (CfC): Publish CAPTCHA Wide Review

Colleagues:

This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to the Accessible Platform
Architectures (APA) Working Group seeking consensus to publish the
"Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA" document for a second, and we hope final, wide review.

Yes, this is indeed our second attempt to publish a second wide review
draft of our CAPTCHA document. Many of you carefully read a draft in May
that regretably went awry. Details here:

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rqtf/2019Jun/0001.html

The draft to review for this CfC is here:

https://raw.githack.com/w3c/apa/e3c61aecfbd87782e31d38b1867dc94dc4478c42/captcha/index.html

***Background Info***

As was true  in our previous CfC, and is yet more so now, this draft has
undergone yet more revision since our first wide review was published
early this calendar year. We received numerous excellent comments all of
which we believe we have now addressed. Of course, the additional
comments received required our Research Questions Task Force to think
even more deeply about the meaning and current implementations of
CAPTCHA Turing Tests. Thanks to the many individuals who have provided
substantive and editorial assistance in this effort.  If your name isn't
listed, please advise--because we intend to thank you formally in the
publication.

Just in the past few weeks we've actually responded to several
additional comments and further edited our draft, so it's probably good
our earlier publication attempt was delayed. We do believe we are truly
ready at long last to proceed!

Summaries of changes in the past month are available in the following to
messages in the RQTF email archive:

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rqtf/2019Jun/0042.html
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rqtf/2019Jun/0050.html

Please note that no substantive nor editorial changes
will be applied during the CfC to the above URI. However, editorial work
is likely to continue on the Editor's Draft which can be found here:

https://w3c.github.io/apa/captcha/

***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.

We particularly welcome questions and suggested edits, though this could
delay publication. It's important we get this draft right.

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, Sunday 23 June.

NOTE: This Call for Consensus is being conducted in accordance with the
APA Decision Policy published at:

http://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/decision-policy

Thanks again to everyone who's worked to update this important document.

Janina


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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

Received on Wednesday, 19 June 2019 22:06:22 UTC