Fw: Silver prototype exercises for AG Facilitators call on 7 November

Had talked about sending this but neglected to do so.  See attached email
about the Silver work.  If you have cycles (outside of working on ACT TF
work which takes priority for now) please take a look at this.  The Silver
TF is looking for feedback, preferably by the end of 2018.

Best regards,

Mary Jo
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Mary Jo Mueller
Accessibility Standards Program Manager
IBM Accessibility Research, Austin, TX
Phone: 512-286-9698 | Tie-line: 363-9698
                                                                                   
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"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and
become more, you are a leader."  ~John Quincy Adams
----- Forwarded by Mary Jo Mueller/Austin/IBM on 11/16/2018 12:18 PM -----

From:	Jeanne Spellman <jspellman@spellmanconsulting.com>
To:	AGWG Facilitators <group-ag-facilitators@w3.org>
Cc:	WCAG Editors <team-wcag-editors@w3.org>, Shawn Lauriat
            <lauriat@google.com>
Date:	11/06/2018 02:09 PM
Subject:	Silver prototype exercises for AG Facilitators call on 7
            November



We would like to ask the AG Task Force Facilitators to help us test the
functionality of two of the Silver prototypes -- the Information
Architecture and the Plain Language prototypes.  Those who attended AGWG
meetings at TPAC and the AGWG voice call today have heard us talk about the
prototypes already.


We will be introducing this project at the Facilitators call on Wednesday,
7 November.  Please take a look at the links and ask questions.  You can
also email Shawn and I with questions.


We would like broader input from the Task Forces and would like to ask you
to invite your task force members to functionally test one or both of the
Silver prototypes as well.  We would particularly be interested in the Task
Force members writing up guidance that did not make it into WCAG 2.1 or was
"deferred to Silver".  We want to be sure that Silver will be able to
include the accessibility guidance your Task Force thought was important.


We are more interested in the snags you encounter (or what you liked) than
in the quality of what you write.

This is the email that Shawn sent to the AGWG to ask for their help.  I
added an additional example.

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Hello!

As presented at TPAC, we'd like to have members of the Working Group take
two of our prototypes for a test drive, so we can see how well things work
for you. For each of these, please give drafting rewritten success criteria
or drafting new guidance a shot, keeping in mind that anything you draft in
each template won't just go into Silver as written - we'll need to edit
things, add more, rewrite as needed, etc.  The purpose is to test the
functionality of the prototypes, not your writing.

When writing, don't sweat the small stuff and don't go for perfection, feel
free to mostly write things and point to where you hit difficulties! Our
drafted prototypes also have issues, but have still helped us explore how
each of these prototypes could work. The more examples we get of testing
this out, especially with folks like yourselves who haven't sat in on the
process of creating these prototypes, the more we'll learn about what works
and what needs more work.

Information Architecture prototype test drive
Slide deck explaining the new Information Architecture - this gives an
overview of the proposed information architecture if you haven't seen or
heard a presentation on it.
Information Architecture Template - copy the template and fill in with a
restructured version of an existing success criterion or a success
criterion that didn't make it into WCAG 2.1.
Example: Language of Page turned into a guideline with associated methods

Plain Language prototype test drive
Plain Language Template - copy the template and fill in with a rewritten
version of an existing success criterion, following the drafted Silver
Style Guide.
Example: Section Headings from the Plain Language prototype
Example & slide deck introducing the Prototypes: Drafted plain language
translation of Name, Role, Value

For each of these, feel free to use whatever tool you prefer to write
things - you can send us drafts in emails, flat files (like Word docs),
pull requests (or links to your own repository), online files - whatever
works best for you.

Please feel free to also email us with questions.

Thanks,

Shawn & Jeanne