- From: Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:31:38 -0400
- To: Chaals McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru>, WAI Coordination Call <public-wai-cc@w3.org>
Charles, Thanks for the additional background and status update. - Judy On 4/26/2016 7:55 PM, Chaals McCathie Nevile wrote: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 22:04:45 +0100, Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org> wrote: > > Regrets… > >> agenda+ html accessibility bug triage calls; participation welcome > > We're mostly through the accessibility bugs from Bugzilla, so this > week's call will probably mostly look at other bugs. Next week we > might go through and check the list of accessibility bugs again, > because some bugs probably won't have been dealt with as fast as we like. > > People are certainly welcome to take part in the call - or to > participate directly in discussion on github, with the caveat that > we'll ask for an IPR commitment if you propose anything that would be > a substantive change. > > Please note that we're not adding anything that is not implemented > interoperably, to ensure we can ship an HTML Recommendation this year. > Good ideas should instead be discussed first in the Web Platform > Incubator Community Group - https://discourse.wicg.io - to get some > implementation commitment, before bringing them to the HTML spec. We > hope for another version of HTML next year, so missing the deadline > isn't actually the end of the world. > > We're actually removing stuff that doesn't work in reality - although > since some of those things are good ideas, they have gone to the > incubator group to look for more commitment and/or getting them into > better shape. Some of those are accessibility features like > accessKeyLabel - which was only implemented once, with a load of bugs. > The experience showed that there were some good ideas in there and > some things that could be readily improved - in particular, the > aria-shortcuts work can benefit from learning some of the lessons, and > I hope that a vastly improved approach to shortcuts will be part of a > future version of HTML. > > cheers > > Chaals > -- Judy Brewer Director, Web Accessibility Initiative at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) 32 Vassar St. Room G-526, MIT/CSAIL Cambridge MA 02149 USA www.w3.org/WAI/
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