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Re: CFC - Moving Silver Requirements to note

From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 20:06:06 -0400
To: Lisa Seeman <lisa1seeman@gmail.com>
Cc: Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>, public-cognitive-a11y-tf <public-cognitive-a11y-tf@w3.org>, "WCAG list (w3c-wai-gl@w3.org)" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Message-ID: <20201001000606.GC2183@rednote.net>
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
https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka

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
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