Re: CFC - Silver requirements

+1

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On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 11:05 AM Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
wrote:

> +1
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> With a small note about assumptions as I’ve been reading the document in
> one way and discovered other people might have been reading it differently.
> (One person anyway.)
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> Specifically for conformance, the introduction says:
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> “Silver builds on the WCAG 2.0 Requirements of 2006.” (which includes
> conformance)
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> “Silver wishes to advance the WCAG 2.0 Requirements of” (which includes
> “clear conformance”)
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> Then it specifies which requirements it does not wish to ‘advance’.
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> My interpretation is that a conformance model that meets **similar**
> goals to WCAG 2.0 is a requirement of Silver. The WCAG 2.0 version (
> https://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2-req/) does not use the same terminology that
> Silver would use, but I’m assuming that when the conformance model is
> fleshed out it will be incorporated as a requirement in Silver terms.
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> I only add this as I was speaking to someone yesterday who had assumed
> differently, so I wanted to be clear about the +1.
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> Cheers,
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> -Alastair
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> *From: *Andrew Kirkpatrick
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> Call For Consensus — ends Tuesday, May 14th at 11am Boston time.
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> The Working Group has discussed updates to the Silver requirements
> document following a review, discussion at a Face to Face meeting, and
> survey (https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/Silver_Requirements/results)
> and the chairs believe that there is a consensus to accept the requirements
> document.
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> Requirements document: https://w3c.github.io/silver/requirements/
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> Call minutes: Silver requirements update
> <https://www.w3.org/2019/05/07-ag-minutes.html#item01>
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> If you have concerns about this proposed consensus position that have not
> been discussed already and feel that those concerns result in you “not
> being able to live with” this decision, please let the group know before
> the CfC deadline.
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> Thanks,
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> AWK
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> Andrew Kirkpatrick
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> Head of Accessibility
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> Adobe
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> akirkpat@adobe.com
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