- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 15:53:46 -0400
- To: SVG-A11y TF <public-svg-a11y@w3.org>, Richard Schwerdtfeger <schwer@us.ibm.com>
Hi, folks– I was reminded on today's telcon that I missed one of the SVG-A11y deliverables. The charter now includes all three specs: WAI-ARIA Graphics Module, SVG Accessibility API, and Graphics Accessibility API. Thanks! Doug On 9/13/16 1:14 PM, Doug Schepers wrote: > Hi, folks– > > Forwarding from the www-svg mailing list, to avoid cross-posting. > > Of particular interest to the SVG-A11y TF in this charter: > > * we have added the WAI-ARIA Graphics Module and SVG Accessibility API > Mappings specs as explicit deliverables (the current charter lists a > generic "SVG2 accessibility API mapping" spec which was refined and > split into the current 2 specs) > > * we have changed the "SVG2 accessible authoring guidelines" spec to the > more broadly-scoped "SVG Authoring Guidelines", which covers > accessibility in the context of general SVG authoring > > * we dropped several specifications that were not actively developed, > but we retained the SVG Connectors spec, which has accessibility and > navigation considerations. > > * we didn't add a new deliverable for SVG ARIA dataviz vocabulary, but > we could add that to the next charter if we make progress on it > > We're happy to talk more about this charter, maybe on the next telcon. > > Regards– > Doug > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > > Hi, folks– > > The current SVG WG charter [1] expires in October. A W3C Working Group's > charter defines what specifications and other deliverables are planned > and in scope for the group, and a rough expectation of priorities and > timelines. > > We've made substantial progress on SVG 2 and plan to move to Candidate > Recommendation status this week, but there's still more work to do to > get to Recommendation status, including a complete test suite and > multiple implementations. > > So, we have started on a new SVG WG charter [2], which I invite you to > read and comment on. This charter is intended specifically to drive SVG > 2 to completion. > > We've dropped a few deliverables that weren't making progress, and this > short-term charter doesn't include new features for the core SVG spec; > new feature requests can still be made in our issue tracker or this > mailing list, but they are out of scope for this charter, and will have > to be deferred to the next charter period, post-SVG2. > > Note that this charter has not undergone any formal review, so it is > still subject to change. > > > Incidentally, this new charter was trimmed down in general and uses > W3C's new charter template to make it easier to read and understand. > Notably, this includes a complete history of the SVG WG charters [3] and > notes on significant changes, which may be of interest to some (it was > interesting for me to took back on the group's efforts through the > years, and see priorities change… and makes me want to be better about > finishing things more quickly!). > > SVG 2 was a substantial rewrite of the specification. For future work, > the SVG WG wants to make much faster progress between revisions of the > spec, and we've laid the groundwork for that in SVG 2. We hope to make > smaller and more manageable changes and improvements, and to release a > new version of SVG roughly every 12-18 months. > > > [1] https://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/2014/new-charter > [2] https://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/svg-2016.html > [3] https://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/svg-2016.html#history > > Thanks– > Doug > >
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