- From: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 19:58:29 +0000
- To: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Cc: WAI-GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
WAI good standing may be the Mein Kampf rather than the Groucho variety, but it's never stopped me attending or contributing, yet ~:" thanks On Saturday, December 13, 2003, at 06:41 pm, Joe Clark wrote: > > > 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/> > > Jonathan Chetwynd http://www.peepo.co.uk "A web by people with learning difficulties"
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