Re: Reviewer role for WCAG

I am not clear if I support formalising the role or not. Probably on balance
I do - at least avertising that this is a useful way someone can contribute
to the group without being a full participant is a good idea.

As an alternative to deleting user agent and authoring tools as possible
areas of interest it may be worth adding a note to the end of the list
pointing out that for those areas there are other groups that can provide
more direct engagement in the interest area, and that they also welcome
reviewers (but we would need to discuss this across the relevant groups)

Cheers

Charles McCN

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Wendy A Chisholm wrote:

  Charles,
  
  Your comment suggests that we should not include "Authoring Tools" and 
  "User Agents" in the list of interests.  I can understand that and agree to 
  delete those two checks.
  
  however, I'm not clear if you support formalizing the role or not.
  
  --wendy
  
  At 02:44 PM 3/1/00 , Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
  >A reviewer role is extremely helpful. Although we did not formalise it in AU
  >we had seveeral people who had agreed to act in such a way, and the UA group
  >also put considerable effort into securing commitments to review from people
  >who were not able to be full participants in the working group.
  >
  >It would seem that if someone's interest is in Authoring Tools or User Agents
  >perhaps they should be encouraged to join the relevant working groups (or act
  >as reviewers for those groups). I think that there is a need for the
  >different groups to review each others' work (in particular AU has a very
  >heavy dependency on WCAG) but I think that review needs to be done by members
  >of the actual working group.
  >
  >Cheers
  >
  >Charles McCN
  >
  >On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Wendy A Chisholm wrote:
  >
  >   Hello,
  >
  >   The chairs and I have been discussing a "Reviewer" role for the working
  >   group.  I thought that this had been discussed at one of the telecons, but
  >   I don't see it represented in any of the minutes since January.
  >
  >[etc]
  
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  wendy a chisholm
  world wide web consortium
  web accessibility initiative
  madison, wi usa
  tel: +1 608 663 6346
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