Re: Call for Consensus (CfC): Horizontal Review of WCAG 2.2

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On 17/08/2022, 17:46, "Janina Sajka (janina@rednote.net)" <janina@rednote.net> wrote:

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    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


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Received on Wednesday, 24 August 2022 12:53:28 UTC