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

On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:52:18 +0100, Leif Halvard Silli  
<xn--mlform-iua@målform.no> wrote:

> Support.

Ditto

> 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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