RE: I will vote against WCAG 2.1 Draft

Wayne I don’t have low vision but also find git hub to be inaccessible, it fails to meet many of the areas that the COGA TF are proposing for 2.1 .  I agree we need to find a way of participating in an alternative format.

Using github has made it very difficult to participate as fully as I would have liked.

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From: Wayne Dick [mailto:wayneedick@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 4:30 PM
To: GLWAI Guidelines WG org <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Subject: Re: I will vote against WCAG 2.1 Draft

Let me clarify. Only one or two members of the LVTF could participate in the discussion on github because the interface is not accessible and we were given no instructions on how to participate in an alternative format.
The 2.1 document is pretty good. I will vote for it if the document if it is made clear that members with the Low Vision Task Force could not participate in the discussion, and therefore, the effected  parties are not present in the discussion.
Wayne

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 6:36 AM, Wayne Dick <wayneedick@gmail.com<mailto:wayneedick@gmail.com>> wrote:
​Dear Working Group,
You will notice a distinct absence of people with low vision on the Github issues discussion. That would be because the software is inaccessible  to people with low vision. It is not that we are not interested. It is that we cannot use the software effectively enough to participate.

I am sure someone on the list with full sight will tell me just how great screen magnification software really is. Problem solved. A system that requires 40 to 100  times the work just to scroll is accessibility support. Please include the people who are effected.
This is the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group of the W3C. Certainly we can create an interface that can be used by the effected  parties.

Wayne

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