RE: Call for Consensus (CfC): Publish AI-Accessibility FPWD

+1, with the non-blocking addition that there are two things that I'd really
like to see added to the document in its next, or a near-future, revision:

1. There's a lot of examples of things that this technology _could_ do for
accessibility in the document. They are good examples, but what seems
missing is explicit consideration of how we could verify that AI is actually
capable of doing such things - how are we going to benchmark it? (This is
something that other parts of W3C are looking at, but mentioning it here I
think is really important.)

2. Equally, some consideration of issues such as the time at which the AI is
run (authoring vs run-time), and the implications on its efficacy, and
efficiency, would be good. And definitely to mention and cross-reference
concepts such as burden shifting (which Jason's work taught me about) that
came up when RQTF provided input to the Ethical Principles of Web Machine
Learning document - and that term specifically has its own section in that
document: https://www.w3.org/TR/webmachinelearning-ethics/#fnd-r7

Matthew Atkinson
Head of Web Standards
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Janina Sajka (janina@rednote.net) <janina@rednote.net>
> Sent: 12 March 2025 13:31
> To: public-apa-admin@w3.org
> Subject: Call for Consensus (CfC): Publish AI-Accessibility FPWD
> 
> Colleagues:
> 
> This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to the Accessible Platform
Architectures
> (APA) Working Group proposing  publication of a First Public Working Draft
> (FPWD) of the Research Questions Task Force Note track document:
> "Accessibility of machine learning and generative AI." We generally refer
to
> this document by its short name: "AI-Accessibility."
> 
> * The snapshot to review for this CfC is here:
>   https://raw.githack.com/w3c/ai-accessibility/FPWD-ai-
> accessbility/index.html
> 
> * RQTF's resolution requesting publication of the above snapshot
> version as an APA Note is recorded here:
>  https://www.w3.org/2025/03/12-rqtf-minutes.html#e753
> 
> * The W3C Note track process is described here:
>  https://www.w3.org/2023/Process-20231103/#note-track
> 
> Please note the above snapshot will look slightly different when
published.
> The Status of this Document section will be updated, and the document will
> display with different colorization to reflect the document's FPWD status.
> 
> As always with APA CfCs, editorial corrections, such as spelling or
grammar,
> will be made as needed without further notice.  Please do draw our
attention
> to any editorial issues you find in this draft.
> 
> 
> ***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 19 March.
> 
> 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
> APA Co-Chairs
> 
> 
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