RE: Approving SC by email -3.1

Hi John F,

+ 1
I agree to abstracting to other forms of visual communication, and to insisting on the understandability part. Thank you for the explanation.

John

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From: John Foliot [mailto:john.foliot@deque.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2016 2:59 PM
To: Rochford, John <john.rochford@umassmed.edu>
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Subject: Re: Approving SC by email -3.1

Hi John,

Not only readable, but *understandable*, and this might also include non-text content such as complex graphics (charts etc.) or in a non-related (yet related) way, icons (especially custom icons), although I think in both of those scenarios there are already existing WCAG SC. Still, abstracting away from "text only" to include other forms of visual communication (and insisting on the understandability part) is worthy of this minor change.

+1 in support.

JF

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Rochford, John <john.rochford@umassmed.edu<mailto:john.rochford@umassmed.edu>> wrote:
-1 because what else is readable other than text?

From: Kurt Mattes [mailto:kurt.mattes@deque.com<mailto:kurt.mattes@deque.com>]
Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 10:14 AM
To: Steve Lee <steve@opendirective.com<mailto:steve@opendirective.com>>
Cc: lisa.seeman <lisa.seeman@zoho.com<mailto:lisa.seeman@zoho.com>>; public-cognitive-a11y-tf <public-cognitive-a11y-tf@w3.org<mailto:public-cognitive-a11y-tf@w3.org>>
Subject: Re: Approving SC by email -3.1

+1 to approving this proposal

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 4:56 AM, Steve Lee <steve@opendirective.com<mailto:steve@opendirective.com>> wrote:
+1
Steve Lee
OpenDirective http://opendirective.com



On 5 September 2016 at 18:53, lisa.seeman <lisa.seeman@zoho.com<mailto:lisa.seeman@zoho.com>> wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> We need to approve some of our proposals by email, as I do not think we will
> have enough time to do them all on the calls.
>
>
> Can we aprove this small proposal  - it is a change to Guideline 3.1:
> Make text content readable and understandable becomes
>
>  Make content readable and understandable
>
> See  https://rawgit.com/w3c/coga/master/extension/3-1.html

>
>
> All the best
>
> Lisa Seeman
>
> LinkedIn, Twitter
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>



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