- From: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:41:06 -0500 (EST)
- To: WAI-GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
I want WAI (read well: WAI) to be very, very clear about what it truly means here: <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2003OctDec/0556.html> > Work statement [1]: focused mainly on membership requirements for our task > force. People need to be members in good standing of the larger WCAG group > but can focus their time commitment to techniques, or split their time. The membership requirements seem to have been unilaterally upgraded overnight to read as follows: <http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2003/12/wttf.html> Participation Task Force participants must be participants in good standing of the WCAG WG, should have experience with a Web technology (such as HTML, CSS, or SVG), and must actively contribute to the work of the Task Force, including: * minimum 2 hours per week of Task Force work * remain current on the mailing list and respond in a timely manner to postings on mailing list * participate in Task Force telephone meetings, or send regrets to the list * assist in preparing Task Force deliverables for discussion Essentially, even to work on HTML techniques now requires one to be PiGS (participant in good standing). 1. That was not the case before. 2. Is that really and truly what the World Wide Web Consortium wishes to insist on now? Answer question 2 very carefully indeed. The Web Accessibility Initiative stands to permanently alienate contributors if it actually puts the proposal into practice. Perhaps I should add a third question: 3. Is that the result WAI actually intends? Public responses, to the list, *only*, please. -- Joe Clark | joeclark@joeclark.org Author, _Building Accessible Websites_ <http://joeclark.org/access/> | <http://joeclark.org/book/>
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