FW: Text Alternative editors

FYI.

Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
17 Eleanor Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K2E 6A3
Tel: (425) 705-9596 Fax: (425) 936-7329

From: Paul Cotton [mailto:Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2014 11:19 AM
To: public-html-admin@w3.org
Cc: Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com> (faulkner.steve@gmail.com); Liam R E Quin; Shane McCarron
Subject: Text Alternative editors

Steve has resigned [1] as Editor of the "Techniques for providing useful text alternatives" specification [2].  The Chairs, HTML WG and A11Y TF would like to thank Steve for his immense efforts on this document.

The Chairs are pleased to appoint Liam Quin and Shane McCarron as Editors of the "Techniques for providing useful text alternatives" specification.

The new editors will now tackle the open Text Alternatives bugs [3] including bug 26868 that requests that this document take into consideration the Image Description extension specification [5].

/paulc
HTML WG co-chair

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2014Oct/0009.html
[2]  http://www.w3.org/TR/html-alt-techniques/
[3] http://tinyurl.com/mh2tcau
[4] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=26868
[5] http://www.w3.org/TR/html-longdesc/

Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
17 Eleanor Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K2E 6A3
Tel: (425) 705-9596 Fax: (425) 936-7329