Hi, COGA, time-sensitive re AG discussion tomorrow/January 23rd

Hi, folks, at today's COGA meeting, we talked about a decision AG will make
tomorrow on how to approach publishing WCAG 3.

*Background*
One of the big publication debates is whether to prioritize publishing new
WCAG 3 (Silver) outcomes or to prioritize publishing outcomes that are
compatible with WCAG 2.2. Which is more important to share with the public
first — showing how this next set of guidelines meets more user needs or
showing how it builds on previous guidelines?

*Consider adding a thumbs-up in GitHub by 11 am ET:*
*The starting point should be the WCAG 3 outcomes.*
<https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/discussions/33#discussioncomment-8173718>
(Thumbs up for "yes", thumbs down for "no, lets start with WCAG 2.2".)
Starting with WCAG 3 would mean starting with the proposed outcomes
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fw0-q4_iZPZ44_PmvUbJBH8CtQtxwXEXlJ3jac1T5JY/>,
prioritising and refining those, leading onto a module or similar output.
Starting with WCAG 2.2 would mean picking 1 or 2 areas to upgrade for the
next time period.

*Other publication debates on tomorrow's agenda:*
Each comment below summarizes the debate and tells you what a thumbs-up or
thumbs-down vote means.

   - We should focus on guidelines (rather than conformance) for a while,
   then come back to conformance / structural updates.
   <https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/discussions/33#discussioncomment-8173720>
   - We should focus on completing modules rather than time-boxed output.
   <https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/discussions/33#discussioncomment-8173723>
   - We want legislators to have something new to adopt sooner rather than
   later.
   <https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/discussions/33#discussioncomment-8173725>

*If you want to join tomorrow's AG meeting:*

   - 11am ET start time
   - Publication discussion is expected to take 90 minutes
   - *https://www.w3.org/2017/08/telecon-info_ag
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   - IRC channel: #ag

*If you want more background before the meeting:*
Rachael is trying to carve out time to meet with COGA members at 8am ET
tomorrow. If she can make this work, she'll send out a calendar invite.

Thanks to you all and especially to Rachael,
Julie

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