- From: Becky Gibson <gibson.becky@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 16:12:33 -0400
- To: "Janina Sajka (janina@rednote.net)" <janina@rednote.net>
- Cc: public-apa-admin@w3.org
- Message-Id: <73E9F57B-A8B6-48AB-8694-EB0F3AFDA325@gmail.com>
+1 Becky Gibson > On Aug 17, 2022, at 12:45 PM, Janina Sajka (janina@rednote.net) <janina@rednote.net> wrote: > > Colleagues: > > This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to the Accessible Platform > Architectures (APA) Working Group formally testing for group consensus > regarding our proposed disposition of our WCAG 2.2 Candidate > Recommendation Draft horizontal review. Those of you who have > participated in recent APA teleconferences will recognize this as the > "Sometimes" question. > > ***Background*** > > As always with W3C specifications, APA has a horizontal review > responsibility which applies to specifications created by other WAI > groups just as to any other W3C group. In this context the question of > conducting a formal horizontal review of the draft WCAG 2.2 CR was first > raised on Wednesday 3 August at the regular weekly APA teleconference, > and at the group's request, additional background, quoted below, was > provided by email, available at this link: > > https://www.w3.org/2022/08/03-apa-minutes.html#t12 > > "During our regular teleconference Wednesday 3 August we seemed > generally disinclined to take on an in depth review of the pending WCAG > 2.2 Candidate Recommendation draft currently in a Call for Consensus in > the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group. > > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2022JulSep/0112.html > > "However, there was interest in understanding more about a comment > characterizing third party content injections as occuring "sometimes" in > the section defining Partial Conformance: > > https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/#conformance-partial > > "We note "sometimes" is the first word in this section. It has been > suggested "sometimes" unrealistically understates the lived reality of > today's web. The term "increasingly" has been proposed as a better > descriptor. That issue discussion is here: > > https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/2305 > > "We agreed to return to this question at our next call Wednesday 10 > August." > > Our discussion on Wednesday 10 August is logged here: > > https://www.w3.org/2022/08/10-apa-minutes.html#t11 > > Our last discussion which leads to this CfC occured during the APA > teleconference of Wednesday 17 August and is logged here: > > https://www.w3.org/2022/08/17-apa-minutes.html#t09 > > APA's following proposed disposition of this issue is taken from the second > option suggested by AGWG Co-Chair Alastair as noted next. > > ***Proposed Disposition*** > > APA requests AGWG remove the first word, "Sometimes," from Sec. 5.4 of > the WCAG 2.2 Candidate Recommendation draft document as suggested on > github here: > > https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/2305#issuecomment-1209655125 > > Thus, Sec. 5.4 would begin with an initial sentence that reads: > > "Many Web pages are created that will later have additional content > added to them." > > ***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, Wednesday 24 August. > > 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 > > Janina and Matthew > > > -- > > Janina Sajka > 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 > > Becky Gibson https://www.linkedin.com/in/beckygibsona11y/
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