- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 07:02:03 -0500
- To: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>
- Cc: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>, Vlad Alexander <vlad.alexander@xstandard.com>
Hi Josh, Thanks for your work on this. A few suggestions: * Review the "Writing a Change Proposal" section of the decision policy [1]. Make sure that the text that you have written for the required four components of a Change Proposal are in line with the definitions for them. They currently don't seem to be. For instance consider changing the details section of the new summary proposal to take the form of a set of specific edit instructions or better yet provide HTML5 spec text so that it cannot be misinterpreted. The current Impact and Details sections seem more fitted for the Rationale section. * Per the reopening section of decision policy [2] specifically point out what material in the proposal is new information relevant to the Chairs initial decision. Their table summary decision [3] gave three examples of new information that would be acceptable. They were: identification of specific use cases, first hand statements from authors of development tools, and identification of specific operational problems with the aria-describedby. Does this new proposal address any of those? If so, say so in no uncertain terms. If not, state what is new. If the proposal doesn't have new information, HTML ISSUE-32: table-summary is unlikely to be reopened. * Vlad Alexander is an author of a development tool who provides a first hand statement in a new blog post [4]. This is new information which could help to reopen the issue and reinstate @summary. Consider using this evidence. * If there is a use case for extending @summary [4] to provide a verbose table description consider longdesc. * It seems that the table summary proposal was placed on the existing "Category:Table Summary" page. The directory for HTML change proposals at: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/ Consider add yours there. The index page is: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals Hope some of this helps. Best Regards, Laura [1] http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy-v2.html#escalation-step-2b [2] http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy-v2.html#reopening [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Apr/0092.html [4] http://rebuildingtheweb.com/en/aria-for-content-doomed/ [4] http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Category:Table_Summary#Extending_.40summary.3F
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