Re: leaving SC out of the draft - this is an issue that must get consensus

+1 to Jason.

JF



On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 1:33 PM, White, Jason J <jjwhite@ets.org> wrote:

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> *From:* lisa.seeman [mailto:lisa.seeman@zoho.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 7, 2017 2:17 PM
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> Andrew said on the call today that  SC that do not meet all the acceptance
> criteria left out of this draft . This is an issue that must get consensus.
> It should not be a decision the chairs and staff contact make by themselves.
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> *[Jason] I’m comfortable with omitting from this first draft anything that
> has not reached the stage of development at which circulating it for
> external review is appropriate. I expect proposals to be added to and
> deleted from drafts as the WCAG 2.1 effort proceeds, just as occurred with
> WCAG 1.0 and 2.0 when they were under development.*
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> *I think it would be highly undesirable to expect everyone to bring their
> proposals to the point at which external review is desirable in time for
> releasing a first public working draft. Let’s simply avoid that kind of
> pressure. I know participants in this group are working hard as it is.*
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> *I am also concerned that giving public reviewers a large number of
> proposals of varying quality to respond to could (1) create negative
> impressions of the work over-all, and (2) overwhelm reviewers with issues
> without obtaining focused comments on proposals that the working group
> considers ready for wider circulation and comment.*
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> *Consider this a statement in favor of a more focused first public working
> draft to which additional proposals can be added as the work progresses.*
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