Re: Call to review, Accessibility Conformance Test taskforce proposal

Hi Avneesh,

I think that's an excellent suggestion. I propose adding an item to the
"ACT-Rules can be created to test"  list that says:
- Different digital publishing technologies (such as EPUB)

Wilco

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Avneesh Singh <avneesh.sg@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Wilco,
>
> The proposal looks very good!
> As we know that digital publishing is becoming a priority for W3C,
> dPUB working group is heavily involved in developing use cases (Romain is
> also working on the use cases)
> http://www.w3.org/dpub/
>
> ARIA extensions for digital publishing is being developed
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-dpub-aam-1.0-20160317/
>
> We are working on EPUB accessibility specifications
> http://www.idpf.org/epub/a11y/
>
> Which we wish to get into WCAG extensions some time in future
> http://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2-ext-req/
>
> My suggestion is that when digital publishing is becoming such an
> important activity in W3C, should we mentioned it explicitly in the scope
> and framework part of the proposal.
> It will be great to develop a framework that also supports the tests
> developed from digital publishing perspective.
>
> With regards
> Avneesh
>
> *From:* Wilco Fiers <wilco.fiers@deque.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, June 6, 2016 21:00
> *To:* public-auto-wcag@w3.org
> *Cc:* John Foliot <john.foliot@deque.com> ; schwer@us.ibm.com ;
> maryjom@us.ibm.com ; jongund@illinois.edu ; e.velleman@accessibility.nl ; Preety
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> ; Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Call to review, Accessibility Conformance Test taskforce
> proposal
>
> Dear Auto-WCAG members and others,
>
> Over the past few months, the Auto-WCAG community has been working on a
> proposal to set up a new taskforce at the W3C. The Accessibility
> Conformance Testing (ACT) taskforce. The aim of this task force would be to
> develop a suite of rules that can be used during conformance testing to
> accessibility standards. We aim to share this proposal with the chairs of
> the WCAG Working Group by next week. But before we do so we ask you kindly
> to send us your feedback.
>
> The proposal is made up of three documents.
>
> ACT for W3C, this outlines the proposal:
>
> https://www.w3.org/community/auto-wcag/wiki/Accessibility_Conformance_Testing_for_W3C
>
> ACT Task Force work statement
> https://www.w3.org/community/auto-wcag/wiki/ACT_Deliverables
>
> ACT Deliverables description
> https://www.w3.org/community/auto-wcag/wiki/ACT_Deliverables
>
> Please submit your feedback to the auto-wcag mailing list at
> public-auto-wcag@w3.org by June 13th.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> --
> *Wilco Fiers* - Senior Accessibility Engineer
>
>


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*Wilco Fiers* - Senior Accessibility Engineer