- From: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:37:10 +0000 (UTC)
- To: WAI-GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
I petition the Working Group to *definitively clarify* which submissions regarding WCAG 2.0 are more important than others; which are automatically taken seriously and elicit comments or changes from the group; and which will, in practice, be ignored. >From what I can tell: * Anything anybody says at a face-to-face meeting is given priority in that meeting. If I'm the one who says it, however, it gets ignored once everybody goes home. <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2003JulSep/0530.html> * Anything a Participant in Good Standing (PiGS), W3C Member, or W3C employee says is given highest priority everywhere, notwithstanding the foregoing. * Submissions to WAI Bugzilla-- nearly incomprehensible, in violation of WCAG guidelines, and nearly unknown to anyone who does not read the IG or GL mailing lists-- have next priority. * Submissions to the public-comments mailing list are allegedly read and considered. I view these submissions as next in priority. * Submissions to the GL list (and some to the IG list) are routinely ignored if they are not authored by a Participant in Good Standing (PiGS), W3C Member, or W3C employee. Otherwise, they are next in priority. * Any statement by any claimed activist for learning disability, dyslexia, or cognitive or mental impairment trumps all of the above and is immediately taken seriously and pushed to implementation. I ask for clarification because it seems, as in John Slatin's review of issues in a certain guideline, <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2004OctDec/0211.html> that Bugzilla entries have suddenly been given higher priority. Further, as we get down to the wire here and face the day when WCAG WG must fish or cut bait, I believe there has been no resolution at all of my previous complaints about being routinely ignored while certain other contributors have their proposals immediately rushed through has been resolved. -- Joe Clark | joeclark@joeclark.org Accessibility <http://joeclark.org/access/> Expect criticism if you top-post
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