Re: AGENDA ADDENDUM and Survey - AGWG Meeting June 22nd 2021

That sheds light on why members of the United States Digital Service hired during that administration refused to meet Section 508 requirements for third-party tools, COTS, and anything they deemed “laborious.” 



> On Jun 21, 2021, at 7:35 PM, Jonathan Avila <jon.avila@levelaccess.com> wrote:
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> As an FYI the topic of third-party content was considered by the US DOJ in regards to Title II of the ADA in 2016 in the SANPRM (https://www.ada.gov/regs2016/sanprm.html) which was made inactive during the last Administration in the US.   This gives a glimpse of how a government might consider conformance of third-party content.  A few key take-aways based on reading this shared document and the SAPRM are that:
> Organizations and governments will need to make a decision on their risk/inclusion of people with disabilities based on the presence and detailed level of conformance communicated for third party content
> Regardless of where the content comes from it impacts users with disabilities
> Not-all third party content is the same in terms of impact to the user and control by the organization
> Authoring tool supports and/or community guidelines are important aspect of this.
> Some aspects of linked content and social media may be out of scope of WCAG but still important.
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> Jonathan
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> From: Chuck Adams <charles.adams@oracle.com> 
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2021 9:57 AM
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> Subject: RE: AGENDA ADDENDUM and Survey - AGWG Meeting June 22nd 2021
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> The link to our second agenda item, “Conformance Options Subgroup 3rd Party Content Proposal” is https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/task-forces/silver/wiki/Proposal_on_Third_Party_Content.
> Regards,
> Charles Adams
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> From: Chuck Adams <charles.adams@oracle.com> 
> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2021 6:42 AM
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> Subject: [External] : AGENDA and Survey - AGWG Meeting June 22nd 2021
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> The AGWG will be meeting on Tuesday, 22nd June  2021 at 11.00 AM Eastern US (Length: up to 2 hours).
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> Agenda
> ·         WCAG 3.0 Explainer survey https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/WCAG30-Explainer-V2/
> ·         Conformance Options Subgroup 3rd Party Content Proposal
> ·         WCAG 2.3, possible sub-group
> ·         WCAG 2.x, separate meeting
> ·         WCAG 2.x issue resolutions https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/WCAG22-Misc-items/
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> Please reply with regrets to group-ag-chairs@w3.org (only) if you would normally attend this meeting.
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> To connect to the meeting:
> Meeting call-in and zoom information is at this non-public page: https://www.w3.org/2017/08/telecon-info_ag
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> IRC: http://irc.w3.org port: 6665 channel #ag
> Scribe list: https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Scribe_List
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> Kind regards,
> Charles Adams