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

Support.

Leif

David Newton, Fri, 24 Jan 2014 09:46:26 -0500:
> I support this CfC.
> 
> On Jan 21, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com> 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

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

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