Re: CfC: to maintain “Image Description Extension (longdesc)” Working Draft on the Recommendation track

I support this CfC.



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Catherine Roy
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On 2014-01-21 14:40, Paul Cotton wrote:
>
> This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to maintain the “Image Description 
> Extension (longdesc)” Working Draft on the Recommendation track.  The 
> most recent publication of this specification can be found at:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html-longdesc/
>
> The HTML WG “plan 2014” [1] encouraged the creation of extension 
> specifications.  In some cases these extension specifications have 
> been folded back into one of the current W3C HTML5 specifications.  In 
> this case the recommendation is to take the  “Image Description 
> Extension (longdesc)” Working Draft all the way to W3C Recommendation 
> and to keep it separate from the underlying HTML5 specification.
>
> This recommendations comes to the HTML WG and PF WG from the 
> Accessibility Task Force whose decision on this matter is recorded here:
>
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2014Jan/0049.html
>
> Silence will be taken to mean there is no objection, but positive 
> responses are encouraged.  If there are no objections by Tuesday 
> January 28, this resolution will carry.
>
> /paulc
>
> HTML WG co-chair
>
> [1] http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/html5-2014-plan.html 
> <http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/html5-2014-plan.html>
>
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