- From: Léonie Watson <LWatson@PacielloGroup.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:03:11 +0100
- To: <public-html-admin@w3.org>
- Cc: <public-pfwg@w3.org>, <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
TPG supports the publication of a heartbeat working draft for the following reasons: 1. It will provide a clear point of reference for the guidance as it stands. The future of longdesc remains to be determined. It would therefore be more confusing for this document to include longdesc advice now and for that advice to be removed (should the longdesc attribute not be returned to the HTML5 spec), than it would be for longdesc advice to be added once a decision has been made. 2. Publishing a heartbeat is a marker en-route to final publication. As David Singer said: “A heartbeat does not need to be ‘ready’ or ‘done’ or even ‘fully consented to’ (it is common to insert issue markers for points of contention). Indeed, we’d be going to LCWD and on from there if it were done.” 3. The CFC for publication of the guidance was supported by all parties concerned [1]. Per the W3C process the document should have been published as a result. Since this has not happened it does not seem unreasonable for a heartbeat to be published based on that consensus, and for the guidance to be updated once the future of longdesc is known. Léonie [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-admin/2014Jun/0019.html -- Senior Accessibility Engineer, TPG @LeonieWatson @PacielloGroup
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