Fwd: ISSUE-30 longdesc - Chairs Solicit Alternate Proposals or Counter-Proposals

FYI, please note that the Chairs have now called for alternate 
proposals on longdesc.

- Judy

>Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 12:01:01 -0400
>From: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
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>Subject: ISSUE-30 longdesc - Chairs Solicit Alternate Proposals or 
>Counter-Proposals
>Archived-At: <http://www.w3.org/mid/4DDD27BD.6060203@intertwingly.net>
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>'Should HTML 5 include a longdesc attribute for images'
>
>The current status for this issue:
>
>http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/30
>http://dev.w3.org/html5/status/issue-status.html#ISSUE-30
>
>This issue was reopened on March 2nd 2011:
>
>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0037.html
>
>We have a single Change Proposal to include longdesc in HTML5:
>
>http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/InstateLongdesc
>
>At this time the Chairs would also like to solicit alternate Change 
>Proposals (possibly with "zero edits" as the Proposal Details), in 
>case anyone would like to advocate the status quo or a different 
>change than the specific one in the existing Change Proposal.
>
>The following Change Proposal can be resubmitted, but we strongly 
>urge it to be updated to reflect the new information provided before doing so:
>
>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Feb/0393.html
>
>If no counter-proposals or alternate proposals are received by June 
>25th, 2011, we will proceed to evaluate the Change Proposal that we 
>have received to date.
>
>- Sam Ruby

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