Re: DPub accessibility planning

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
>

Received on Tuesday, 6 January 2015 16:16:11 UTC