RE: 48-Hour Call for Consensus (CfC); Keep Longdesc Independent

I support this CfC given that it has extensive support from most screen
readers today. Hopefully the continued progress of this extension spec will
encourage those screen readers that still do not support this decade+
attribute to do the right thing (I'm looking at you VoiceOver...)

JF



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Janina Sajka [mailto:janina@rednote.net]
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 6:56 PM
> To: W3C WAI Protocols & Formats
> Subject: 48-Hour Call for Consensus (CfC); Keep Longdesc Independent
> 
> Colleagues:
> 
> This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to maintain the Image Description
> (longdesc) HTML extension specification 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's 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
> specification all the way to W3C recommendation status, and to keep it
> separate from the underlying HTML5 specification.
> 
> This recommendation comes to the HTML-WG and the PFWG from the HTML-
> A11Y
> Task Force whose decision on this matter is recorded here:
> 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2014Jan/0049.html
> 
> Please reply on list to this email with any objections or concerns.
> 
> Silence will be taken to mean there is no objection, but positive
> responses are encouraged.
> 
> If there are no objections by 23:59 (Midnight)  Boston Time Wednesday
> 29
> January, this CfC will carry.
> 
> Janina
> 
> [1] http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/html5-2014-plan.html
> 
> 
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Received on Tuesday, 28 January 2014 07:01:24 UTC