WCAG WG Team B - guideline 3.1

Hello all,

For those of you who weren't in the WCAG WG teleconference yesterday, we 
decided to form three teams to work on the guidelines [1]. Each team will 
be responsible to go through a guideline and its success criteria, propose 
solutions to address existing issues, and prepare all the ancillary 
materials. These materials are described by Gregg at [2] and include Guide 
document materials, general techniques, technology-specific techniques, 
tests, an annotated checklist, and other relevant notes. Further 
information about the teams is available at [3].  The goal is a Working 
Draft by the end of September. This means a fairly complete proposal should 
be sent to the WCAG WG by 12 September and a revised proposal by 19 
September.

Team b consists of: Joe Clark, Don Evans, Bengt Farre, Becky Gibson, 
Loretta Guarino Reid, Yvette Hoitink, Jens Meiert, Roberto Scano, Lisa 
Seeman, and Diane Stottlemyer.  John and I will be the team leaders.

Our initial responsibility is to work on Guideline 3.1. Here is the current 
state:
    * There are currently 26 issues related to this guideline. [4]
    * Guide documents exist for each of the existing success criteria and 
some of these contain General Techniques that need to be split out. [5]
    * HTML techniques exist for 5 of the 7 success criteria [6]
    * CSS Techniques exist for 1 of the 7 success criteria [6]
    * There are no client-side scripting techniques [6]
    * A variety of general, html, css, and scripting techniques were 
harvest during a teleconference [7]
    * There are 6 tests related to this guideline [8]
We will need to address open issues, divvy up the guide and general 
techniques, write General Techniques where needed, and perhaps clean up 
parts of the Guide. We will also need to prioritize which techniques we 
want to focus on and then develop tests for those techniques.  We may 
decide that existing techniques are not the highest priority, or to rewrite 
them, or to write new ones, or to leave them as is.  I'll create a survey 
to get a sense of how we feel about all of these pieces and how each of you 
would like to contribute.  Then, we'll divvy up the work and get to it.

I think we should commit to a weekly teleconference (we always have the 
choice not to use our time slot if it is not needed). This will provide 
some regularity to our work and will allow us to have standing time 
available on the W3C's Zakim teleconference bridge. For now, I think 
one-hour meetings should be sufficient; the expectation will be that much 
work will be accomplished by email between meetings. Meeting times for a 
spread of the time zones in which we are located are shown at [9].

Please reply to me privately with your general time availabilities (time of 
day and day of week). If you are willing to be available outside normal 
working hours please indicate that. Please respond to me as soon as 
possible so we can get started on our work, and please be as flexible as 
you can with your availabilities. I realize the weekend has already begun 
for some of you, and Monday is a holiday in North America, but let's see 
what we can do. We may need to renegotiate our time when the transition 
between Daylight Savings Time and Standard Time happens at the end of 
October, but we can worry about that later.

I have set up a mailing list to facilitate email discussion: 
public-wcag-teamb@w3.org
You have all been subscribed to this list.

If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.

Thank you, I look forward to working with you.
--wendy

[1] <http://www.w3.org/2005/09/01-wai-wcag-minutes#item07>
[2] 
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2005JulSep/att-0658/WCAG_Guidelines_and_Support_DocumentsV2.doc>
[3] <http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2005/09/teamtf.html>
[4] <http://tinyurl.com/9ely7>
[5] <http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-GENERAL/guideline3.1.html>
[6] <http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2005/06/30-sc-techniques-mapping.html#meaning>
[7] <http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2005/06/30-tech-harvest.html>
[8] <http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/tests/>
[9] 
<http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?month=9&day=2&year=2005&p1=283&p2=263&p3=16&p4=110>