Re: Assistance in monitoring WAI-IG list

I have subscribed, although I wouldn't consider myself a media monitor,
given that many threads may get by me during busy periods.

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On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>
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>  Sold!  The pay is lousy, but it’s an easy job!  J
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> Alan indicated willingness earlier and I’m not sure if Mike was expressing
> interest or just curiosity.  As many people on WCAG that want to do this
> can (and even if you aren’t “officially designated” any WG member can raise
> related information to the WG at any time) but we just wanted to have 2-3
> people who would be willing to view this as a small part of their
> participation in the group, allowing the rest of the group to stop laying
> awake at night wondering if there is anything going on with the IG list.
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> One thing that we would like to avoid is adding the GL list to an IG
> thread, so if there is an interesting item please raise it with the WCAG
> group in a separate thread.
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> Thanks,
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> AWK
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> *From:* Katie Haritos-Shea GMAIL [mailto:ryladog@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 19, 2015 6:09 PM
> *To:* Andrew Kirkpatrick; alands289@gmail.com; 'WCAG'
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> *Subject:* RE: Assistance in monitoring WAI-IG list
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> Add me….
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> ** katie **
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> *Katie Haritos-Shea Senior Accessibility SME (WCAG/Section 508/ADA/AODA)*
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> *Cell: 703-371-5545 <703-371-5545> **|* *ryladog@gmail.com*
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> *From:* Andrew Kirkpatrick [mailto:akirkpat@adobe.com <akirkpat@adobe.com>]
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> *Sent:* Thursday, March 19, 2015 5:56 PM
> *To:* alands289@gmail.com; WCAG
> *Subject:* RE: Assistance in monitoring WAI-IG list
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> Alan, Mike, and anyone else interested: The IG list is the general web
> accessibility discussion list.  You can find out more about the list at
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/IG/#mailinglist including  how to subscribe.
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> What would be involved is signing up for the list, reading the messages
> every few days or as often as you like, and bringing significant ideas and
> conversations to either the group’s or the chairs’s attention.  Shouldn’t
> be heavy lifting at all, and ideally would be an enjoyable excuse to tune
> into the community discussion.
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> The list gets all kinds of topics.  If there was a thread on “what is a
> good alt for an image?” we’d probably not be very interested, but if a
> thread on challenges meeting SC 4.1.2 when using the ARIA role for sliders
> on mobile devices, a quick note to the WCAG GL list “hey, there’s a long
> and interesting discussion on WAI-IG on ….” would help make sure that
> people doing work on mobile techniques could know about it and either
> engage or mine it for useful information.
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> Make sense?  Any takers?
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> Thanks,
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> AWK
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> *From:* alands289@gmail.com [mailto:alands289@gmail.com
> <alands289@gmail.com>]
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 19, 2015 10:53 AM
> *To:* Andrew Kirkpatrick; WCAG
> *Subject:* Re: Assistance in monitoring WAI-IG list
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> Andrew,
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> I would be interested in assisting.
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> Please let me know all that is involved/required for this effort.
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> Thank you.
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> Alan
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> Sent from Windows Tablet Mail
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> *From:* Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>
> *Sent:* ‎Thursday‎, ‎19‎ ‎March‎, ‎2015 ‎10‎:‎05‎ ‎AM
> *To:* WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
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> WCAG members – Josh and I would like to delegate a couple of WCAG members
> to keep an eye on the discussion on the IG list and raise new and important
> issues being discussed with the chairs and the WG.
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> Any volunteers?
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> Thanks,
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> AWK
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> Andrew Kirkpatrick
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> Group Product Manager, Accessibility
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> Adobe Systems
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