- 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>
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 > > > > > > -- 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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