Re: Reminder: WAI Coordination Call (WAICC) April 27: Agenda and Calling Information

Judy,
Just a reminder that due to my ongoing conflict I will be late to the call.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility and Standards
Adobe 

akirkpat@adobe.com
http://twitter.com/awkawk








On 4/27/16, 04:24, "Léonie Watson" <tink@tink.uk> wrote:

>Realise I had my time zones mixed up. I'll be on the co-ord call, but like Rich will be late because of the SVG TF call.
>
>Léonie.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Judy Brewer [mailto:jbrewer@w3.org]
>> Sent: 27 April 2016 05:32
>> To: Chaals McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru>; WAI Coordination
>> Call <public-wai-cc@w3.org>
>> Subject: Re: Reminder: WAI Coordination Call (WAICC) April 27: Agenda and
>> Calling Information
>> 
>> 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/
>> 
>
>
>

Received on Wednesday, 27 April 2016 12:59:20 UTC