- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:41:27 -0400
- To: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
Dear Laura: On behalf of the HTML-A11Y Task Force facilitators, I want to apologize that we failed to follow through properly regarding your recent bug: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24168 The comment filed on that bug indicated that we had accepted your proposed edits to the HTML5 Image Description Extension specification, and that they had been applied to the latest editors draft. We had indeed queued edits up. However, the changeset did not get applied to the editor's draft available online through some error on our part we've not yet identified. We want to thank you for pointing this out. Also, we may have been insufficiently precise in saying that we had accepted your proposed change. We do strongly agree that we should use nonperjorative and nonjudgemental terms in this document. We have replaced "modern" and "better" with descriptive language. However, we do actually want to encourage authors to use newer markup solutions in addition to longdesc. We believe this is a stronger statement than asking them to consider these other markup approaches. Because of this error, we will be extending the Call for Consensus in the Task Force in order to give everyone the opportunity to review the actual document we propose to promote on the recommendation track. Janina, for the HTML-A11Y Task Force Facilitators -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina@rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/
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