Re: Proliferation of SCs

OK... that's fine by me... I'm glad to hear we are open to have a lot of
new SCs in the 2.1 ... the more the better... as long as they are good.

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On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>
wrote:

> Agree with Kathy. This was briefly discussed today in the meeting and at
> this point there are no limits being placed on SC's for 2.1. There is no
> guarantee that any submitted SC will be accepted by the WG and make it into
> 2.1, but we are not setting limits at this time.
>
> AWK
>
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> On Sep 20, 2016, at 2:29 PM, John Foliot <john.foliot@deque.com> wrote:
>
> +1 to Kathy. I don't think the TF should be self-censoring based on
> "volume of proposed SC" - that should be a task dealt with at the WG level.
>
> JF
>
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Kathy Wahlbin <kathy@
> interactiveaccessibility.com> wrote:
>
>> We will not be moving this into an extension.
>>
>> We will move forward with all the SCs that were decided in the
>> taskforce.  The working group will then decide how these will be
>> incorporated into WCAG 2.1
>>
>> We have to educate people on what is needed for mobile accessibility and
>> how we can ensure that people who are looking for mobile accessibility
>> information know where to go to get this information.
>>
>> Kathy
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>> Interactive Accessibility
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Patrick H. Lauke [mailto:redux@splintered.co.uk]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 7:28 AM
>> To: public-mobile-a11y-tf@w3.org
>> Subject: Re: Proliferation of SCs
>>
>>
>>
>> On 20/09/2016 04:40, David MacDonald wrote:
>>
>> > Although I appreciate that rational of wanting to have a consistency
>> > between keyboard and pointer requirements in WCAG, and also appreciate
>> > that the first choice would have been an integration of Pointer and
>> > Keyboard SCs using a ore abstract SC at 2.1.1 and 2.1.2, so there
>> > wasn't a proliferation of SCs, I think the confusion about the number
>> > of SCs we are proposing has caused some in the WCAG  group and staff
>> > to go back to considering a separate extension for mobile which I feel
>> > would be a major step backwards.
>>
>> If they're thinking about moving our SCs to a "mobile" extension, they
>> clearly haven't understood the fundamental point that "desktop/mobile"
>> distinction is becoming increasingly blurry and irrelevant in today's
>> world...(e.g. touch not being about "mobile" etc)
>>
>> Is there anything on record about this that can be discussed further with
>> the relevant group/staff? This is a rather fundamental issue, I'd say.
>>
>> P
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