Re: Vision for W3C review

Fredrik:

I think you're correct that APA would not likely take up your concerns,
but there's no reason you can't open issues with suggested rewordings.
You could even branch and reword as you would prefer. You will get a
hearing, and who knows? You might indeed improve the document to the
satisfaction of all!

Best,
Janina

Fredrik Fischer writes:
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> I have reviewed the Vision for W3C[1] and find myself in something of a bind. As it stands, it is a perfectly fine document and there is certainly not much to be desired from an APA standpoint if taken as is.
> 
> My quarrels with the text are, if not legion, then at least handily a centuria or two. They have very little to do with accessibility per se, but more to do with the very uncommitted tone of the whole thing. To me, it comes across as a vision almost in the dreamlike sense of the word, with some very firmly laid out principles here, some quite loosey-goosey verbiage there and all jumbled together into a document that, though it presumes to give direction for the organizationand by extension to the Web itself, is sorely lacking in that department.
> 
> There is too much qualification at the same time as there seems to a be an abundance of vague pontificating. I know this can't be a legal document, and I don't think it should be, but it must be undergirded by convictions, force even. We know the Web is a wondrous thing, perhaps The Wondrous Thing of our age - so why doesn't this come across in this document? Not to belabour the point, but building a big tent requires some really strong foundations and poles.
> 
> But, well, that is out of scope for an APA review and I'm not even a member, so where does this leave me?
> 
> 
> 
> Finally, to be clear, I have concrete ideas for wording. And no, I don't want to burn the whole thing down. I just want it to reflect what the Web means to us all - us all in the global sense - and the importance of keeping and safeguarding it.
> 
> Getting off my soapbox, I wish you all a happy weekend and look forward to any and all comments that may or may not arise from this message.
> 
> Cheers,
> Fredrik
> 
> 
> [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/NOTE-w3c-vision-20241018/
> 
> 
> 
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
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Received on Saturday, 9 November 2024 09:32:27 UTC