Re: CFC - Moving Silver Requirements to note

Lisa,

It sounds to me like you're assuming the requirements are finished, and
that we might not add to the document. I'm not sure that's been
established.

Best,

Janina

Lisa Seeman writes:
> I apologize for doing this, and I know the silver taskforce is trying
> hard,  but I can not agree with the silver requirements
> 
> My concern is that the requirements (in section 4) do not include, or even
> imply, that all user needs will be addressed to the best of our ability.
> 
>  It does not include that following these requirements will enabled content
> to be as accessible as possible for all people with disabilities. The
> requirement section does not address the imbalance of user needs in the
> current guidelines, across the different disability groups.  (Note these
> are implied in the scope but not in the requirements. It must be in the
> actual requirements)
> 
> Again the focus of the requirements is on measurability,   adoption into
> law,etc. But if addressing the user needs are not a requirement, what is
> the point?
> -1
> 
> Keep well, and thanks again for the huge effort in creating this work
> Lisa
> 
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 7:16 PM Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Call For Consensus — ends Monday, October 5th at 12 (midday) Boston time.
> >
> >
> >
> > The Working Group has discussed moving the Silver Requirements to a group
> > note, recently with this survey:
> >
> > https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/silver-requirements-pub/
> >
> > (Which includes links to the previous survey and minutes.)
> >
> >
> >
> > Last call minutes: https://www.w3.org/2020/09/29-ag-minutes.html#item09
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> >
> >
> > -Alastair
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> >
> > @alastc / www.nomensa.com
> >
> >
> >

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Janina Sajka
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Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa

Received on Thursday, 1 October 2020 00:06:25 UTC