- From: Thierry MICHEL <tmichel@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:15:59 +0100
- To: Deborah Kaplan <dkaplan@safaribooksonline.com>, public-dpub-accessibility@w3.org
Deborah, Charlkes, I have signed up to the DPub accessibility TF and propose to help as I can. thierry. On 17/12/2014 17:45, Deborah Kaplan wrote: > Hello everyone! We would like to get people started on the DPub > accessibility work. While we know that people's schedules are likely to > be complicated for the next three weeks, and we don't expect much > comprehensive work will happen in that time, it would be great if people > could look over this email and the linked spreadsheets, and have an > email conversation over the course of the next few days, if possible, so > we can be ready to hit the ground running in the new year. We would love > to hear from the team members over the coming week so that we can > resolve questions, concerns, and get started assigning work to ourselves. > > Charles and I determined that both the W3C and Github wikis provide > spreadsheet tools which are not that intuitive or practical. We are > using our Github wiki to organize and link to a series of Google Sheets > in which the team should work. Google Sheets have had some pretty major > strides in accessibility over the last few years, but if they provide > accessibility roadblocks for anyone, please talk to us, and we can try > to come up with an alternative. > > https://github.com/w3c/dpub-accessibility/wiki > > Here is an outline of our goals and the process we are going to be using: > > Goals and Products: > > 1. We are going to be looking at WCAG, ATAG, and UAAG to see where they > have particular relevance that is unique to digital publishing. > > 2. The products from our efforts will be: > > 2a. A generalized Note about accessibility, W3C standards, and digital > publishing, which links to all of the appropriate guidelines and > standards, and explains things as much as possible, which all of the > appropriate digital publishing consortium groups can link to. > > 2b. Digital publishing specific examples, where we think they are > appropriate/necessary, for the "examples" documents of those three > guidelines, to propose to the maintainers of those three sets of > guidelines. > > 2c. If we feel that any of the existing techniques or guidelines need to > be modified to account for digital publishing-specific needs, then we > will open up communication with the appropriate teams about that process. > > Hopefully we will not be proposing any changes to the guidelines > themselves, but techniques and examples are easier to modify and expand > upon. > > Our Process > > 1. Look at the list of spreadsheets Charles has created > > https://github.com/w3c/dpub-accessibility/wiki > > 2. Going over those spreadsheets, everybody takes a certain number of > spreadsheet rows as their homework, assigned to them. We are not aiming > for equivalents in number of rows; realistically, a lot of the rows will > be 15 seconds-a-pop, "nope, not relevant to digital publishing." > > 3. Everybody go through their assignments and try to deal with the > trivial non-our-concern issues first. Mark them accordingly. > > 4.Reapportion the remaining work, if necessary. > > 5. Now comes the real meat of our process. Determine whether what we are > doing is adding to our own "note", submitting a new example to the > guideline maintainers, or discussing whether an existing > technique/guideline needs to be amended/added to. Update our > spreadsheets verbosely, linking to references where ever it will be > helpful. > > 6. Weekly, the team will have email meetings in which we discuss all of > the issues raised in step 5. If we feel we need to have voice meetings, > we will find a way to schedule them. > > 7. When we have completed that work, Charles, Deborah, and hopefully > some more volunteers from the team, as well as some W3C process experts, > will create the actual documents and communications. > > So that summarizes our Goals, Products, and Process. Could people who > will be contributing to the work provide feedback and/or questions about > these steps? Also, begin thinking about what assignments you would like > to claim. Please update the spreadsheets to claim specific assignments! > The people who get in first get the choicest work. :-) > > Take care, > > Deborah Kaplan >
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