Re: Call for Consensus: Publish HTML Image Descriptions as Last Call

I also support the CFC to publish HTML Image descriptions as Last Call.

/Denis



On 2013-06-24, at 4:04 PM, David MacDonald <David100@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Fine here
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> Cheers
> David MacDonald
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> From: Steve Faulkner [mailto:faulkner.steve@gmail.com] 
> Sent: June-24-13 3:49 PM
> To: Léonie Watson
> Cc: Charles McCathie Nevile; HTML Accessibility Task Force
> Subject: Re: Call for Consensus: Publish HTML Image Descriptions as Last Call
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> ditto
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> Regards
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> SteveF
> HTML 5.1
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> On 24 June 2013 18:33, Léonie Watson <tink@tink.co.uk> wrote:
> I support the CFC to publish HTML Image Descriptions as a last call working draft.
> 
> Léonie.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles McCathie Nevile [mailto:chaals@yandex-team.ru]
> Sent: 24 June 2013 18:17
> To: public-html-a11y@w3.org
> Subject: Call for Consensus: Publish HTML Image Descriptions as Last Call
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this is a call for consensus on the proposal:
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> THe HTML Accessibility Task Force requests that the HTML and PF Working Groups jointly publish a Last Call Working Draft of the HTML Image Description extension, based on the 24 June editor's draft athttps://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-proposals/raw-file/e2129bb908aa/longdesc1/longdesc.html
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> Silence will be taken as assent, but a positive response is preferred.
> Please respond to public-html-a11y@w3.org before the call closes at midnight on Monday 1 July (Hawaii Time zone).
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> Changes since the Second Public Working Draft of June 6 are editorial in nature. The most significant ones are identified at https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-proposals/raw-file/e2129bb908aa/longdesc1/longdesc.html#changes
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> There is one issue identified in the draft, which is a request for a better reference for checking accessibility of content. We have already agreed that if we don't find a more appropriate reference we will simply close the bug and leave it as is.
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> In addition, in a late comment on the last draft[1] Peter Gruzca foreshadowed a potential issue of changing the requirement for making longdesc discoverable from "should" to "must". In my reply[2], I have requested that if he wishes to formally propose the issue he does so as a comment on the Last Call (assuming we reach consensus and the Last Call is published).
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> [1]
> <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2013Jun/0064.html>
> [2]
> <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2013Jun/0071.html>
> 
> cheers
> 
> Chaals
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