- From: Léonie Watson <tink@tink.uk>
- Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 10:42:06 +0100
- To: Rich Schwerdtfeger <richschwer@gmail.com>
- Cc: Mike Cooper <cooper@w3.org>, Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group <public-apa@w3.org>, ARIA <public-aria@w3.org>
On 11/08/2016 20:10, Rich Schwerdtfeger wrote: > After further thought on this I don’t think it is a good idea to only > deal with this in the ARIA Working Group. > > My reason is that it is very easy for a platform to push the work of > accessibility off to an accessibility group. Then it becomes out of > sight and out of mind. I am not saying that this is something you would > do Leonie but I think that the hands off approach is not a good one. We > can’t also assume that Steve and Jason will commit to doing the great > work they are doing forever. Others in the group will need to step up. That's a good point Rich. Pulling a11y into the mainstream is a good thing to do. > > There is also a precedence problem. We just managed to get the CSS > working group to work with us on interoperability based on the latest > Task Force work statement. I don’t want to set things back by having > another working group set a conflicting path by delegate ownership > completely to an accessibility working group. I've filed an issue against the charter [1]. If further comments could be added there, that would be good. Thanks. Léonie. [1] https://github.com/w3c/charter-html/issues/133 -- @LeonieWatson tink.uk Carpe diem
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