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

+1 - excited to see this progressing. 

Scott. 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> 
Sent: Thursday, 20 June 2019 6:06 AM
To: Accessible Platform Architectures Administration <public-apa-admin@w3.org>
Subject: 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 Thursday, 20 June 2019 00:01:36 UTC