RE: Agenda: HTML-A11Y Task Force on 17 February at 16:00Z for 60 minutes

As I explained on the call today, Sam and I agree that if the Chairs agree to re-open ISSUE-30 it will become a Last Call issue and NOT a pre-Last Call issue.  If we started to permit closed/resolved pre-LC issues to be re-opened as pre-LC issues just because of their original escalation date then we would severely risk out ability to get to Last Call in May.

/paulc

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-----Original Message-----
From: public-html-a11y-request@w3.org [mailto:public-html-a11y-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Laura Carlson
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 1:33 PM
To: Sam Ruby
Cc: HTML Accessibility Task Force
Subject: Re: Agenda: HTML-A11Y Task Force on 17 February at 16:00Z for 60 minutes

Hi Sam,

>> Hopefully that will allow enough time for the HTML Working Group to 
>> evaluate the proposal, the reverse the decision, and instate longdesc 
>> into the spec before Last Call.
>
> Based on what I have seen, I do believe that you have enough 
> information to reopen the issue.  That being said it is my continued 
> position[4][5] that all escalations after Jan 22 are to be treated as LC issues.

Issue 30 was escalated February 6, 2008.
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/30


The request would be to reopen that previously escalated issue and resolve it before last call based on new information.

Is that possible?

Thank you.

Best Regards,
Laura

On 2/17/11, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net> wrote:
> On 02/17/2011 03:33 AM, Laura Carlson wrote:
>> Hi Janina,
>>
>> Regrets for the meeting.
>>
>>> Issue-30 longdesc (any updates?)
>>
>> Some of us have been working on the change proposal [1]. Ideas for 
>> improvement on that and on the use cases [2] that require longdesc 
>> are still very welcome.
>>
>> I plan to submit the proposal to the HTML working group soon. Per the 
>> Chairs' timeline [3], every issue needs to have at least one Change 
>> Proposal by February 23. So on February 22, I plan to submit the 
>> change proposal to reopen HTML-ISSUE-30.
>>
>> Hopefully that will allow enough time for the HTML Working Group to 
>> evaluate the proposal, the reverse the decision, and instate longdesc 
>> into the spec before Last Call.
>
> Based on what I have seen, I do believe that you have enough 
> information to reopen the issue.  That being said it is my continued 
> position[4][5] that all escalations after Jan 22 are to be treated as LC issues.
>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Laura
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/InstateLongdesc

>> [2] http://www.d.umn.edu/~lcarlson/research/ld.html#uc

>> [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Sep/0074.html

>
> - Sam Ruby
>
> [4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Feb/0052.html

> [5] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Sep/0074.html

>


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Laura L. Carlson

Received on Thursday, 17 February 2011 19:05:07 UTC