- From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:22:08 -0400
- To: Steve Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>
- Cc: W3C WAI Protocols & Formats <public-pfwg@w3.org>
Steven Faulkner writes: > Its unclear why this is being asked for? Can the reasons be clearly > articulated? > Were the minutes not helpful on this exact point? > The section referred to contains both author and browser conformance > requirements is the removal of MUST requirements on both being asked for? > Under the permissive testing approach, we're relying on participants expertise to indicate which sections of the spec need testing. It's the ARIA Task Force's view that the browser requirements are unclear and should not be mandatory until there's a HTML Mappings specification. And, what's the value of author reqs, if we don't know about browser support? Others may have more comments. Steve, have you not been keeping up with ARIA minutes even? Janina > -- > > Regards > > SteveF > HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/> > > > On 11 June 2014 18:36, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> wrote: > > > Colleagues: > > > > This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to formally request that the HTML-WG > > take one of the following two courses of action with respect to > > strong native semantics in HTML 5.0: > > > > > > http://htmlwg.org/heartbeat/WD-html5-20140617/dom.html#sec-strong-native-semantics > > > > 1.) Mark this section as RFC2119 "informative" in the current 5.0 > > version of > > HTML, with a note that it is expected to become normative in a future > > version of HTML. > > > > 2.) Produce testing results that validate maintaning this section's > > current RFC2119 normative status. > > > > The ARIA Task Force believes it may be possible to take the second > > course of action without an HTML Accessibility API Mappings > > specification, but such a specification would make the task much > > simpler. This document is, of course, not yet available for this > > purpose. > > > > This proposal is made by the WAI_PF ARIA Task Force, as discussed in its > > regular weekly teleconference on 2 June last, logged at: > > > > http://www.w3.org/2014/06/02-aria-minutes.html > > > > Please reply on list to this email with any objections or concerns. > > Silence will be interpreted as ascent, though positive > > messages of support are most welcome. > > > > If there are no objections by Close of Business Boston Time Friday 13 > > June, this CfC will carry, and will be communicated to the HTML-A11Y TF > > and the HTML-WG as a formal PF comment and request. > > > > Janina > > > > -- > > > > Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 > > sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net > > Email: janina@rednote.net > > > > Linux Foundation Fellow > > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > > > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > > Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf > > Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/ > > > > > > -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net Email: janina@rednote.net Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/
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