RE: Comments on WCAG.Next Models

Hi Gregg,

 

Yes, the initial email went out on April 8th, and was sent to w3c-wai-gl, w3c-wai-ig, and the WebAIM mailing list (for good measure) - https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2016AprJun/0014.html

 

Currently, the WCAG WG Charter is ambivalent on the definition of “extensions”, outside of the fact that the various existing Task Forces are all working towards the creation of “extensions”. This activity was a follow-on to that: seeking a clearer definition of what “extensions” are, and how they would work with regard to advancement, adoption, inter-operability, date(s) of release, etc. This is NOT a re-chartering of the WCAG WG, but simply an exercise in clarification, opened to public comment.

 

HTH

 

JF

 

 

 

From: Gregg Vanderheiden [mailto:gregg@raisingthefloor.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 10:15 AM
To: John Foliot <john.foliot@deque.com>
Cc: GLWAI Guidelines WG org <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>; WCAG Editors <team-wcag-editors@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Comments on WCAG.Next Models

 

Was this announced on the W3C WCAG WG public comment list?  

 

if so - I missed it.   

 

Posting to an Interest list is not an official call for comments.  This is not monitored by most of the world. 

 

That said the comments are interesting.  But if the Working Group is to act on anything — it really needs to base it off of a public call for comments. 


gregg 

 

On Apr 26, 2016, at 8:58 AM, John Foliot <john.foliot@deque.com <mailto:john.foliot@deque.com> > wrote:

 

Dear Working Group, Chairs,

 

As previously discussed, public feedback was solicited in early April on how to proceed with WCAG.next, the extension(s) to WCAG 2.0. In total, we received 66 emails from 27 people on this topic.

 

Jeanne Spellman has consolidated all of that feedback into one page (here:  <https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Comments_on_WCAG.Next_Models> https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Comments_on_WCAG.Next_Models) for this Working Group to contemplate. 

 

While feedback is still welcome, Jeanne and I believe that we have gathered enough comments and discussion to bring this forward to the larger group at this time, and equally that we observed a coalescence around the proposed 2.2 model “WCAG 2.x by date across Task Forces as work is ready”, although it is, at this time, the prerogative of the Working Group to still entertain some of the other possible models.

 

Subsequently, we are considering this deliverable complete, and we look forward to the discussion and decision that the WCAG WG finally makes.

 

Sincerely

 

JF

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