Re: Assistance in monitoring WAI-IG list

I'll watch it, too.
Mike
 


     On Thursday, March 19, 2015 8:43 PM, Alan <alands289@gmail.com> wrote:
   

 Sounds like and easy enough thing to do. I'm in. Alan

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On Mar 19, 2015, at 5:56 PM, Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com> wrote:



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Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 10:53 AM
To: Andrew Kirkpatrick; WCAG
Subject: Re: Assistance in monitoring WAI-IG list    Andrew,    I would be interested in assisting.    Please let me know all that is involved/required for this effort.    Thank you.    Alan    Sent from Windows Tablet Mail    From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎19‎ ‎March‎, ‎2015 ‎10‎:‎05‎ ‎AM
To: WCAG    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.   Any volunteers?   Thanks, AWK   Andrew Kirkpatrick Group Product Manager, Accessibility Adobe Systems    akirkpat@adobe.com http://twitter.com/awkawk http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility