RE: CFC - Publish WCAG 3.0 as FPWD

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We accept most of the current public working draft, however,  we do not agree that is sufficiently complete for FPWD. We appreciate the focus on functional needs of various user groups and respective functional outcomes. We, however,  have concerns regarding the conformance model and the measure of compliance. Specifically, we think that the subjectivity in measuring the compliance to success criterion can lead to inconsistent evaluation of the success criteria. Also, it will be difficult to automate the accessibility evaluation processes. Conducting accessibility evaluation  by involving users with various disabilities is necessarily time intensive and thus can add significant cost. Smaller organizations may perceive the cost of manual evaluation as a significant disincentive  and may not want to go beyond the bare minimum level of compliance which is undesirable (though understandable).

Additionally, sampling can be subjectively driven, either intentionally or unintentionally, to exclude areas of a complex application/site that may impact potential users with one or more specific accessibility needs. Similarly, sampling may result into inadequate coverage of the critical user tasks. Therefore, we would appreciate if the group will focus on the critical task completion  as a basis to prioritize the accessibility evaluation of a website.

For those reasons, we do not agree with moving to FPWD, but also do not object formally.  The public comment period will be a time to fully ascertain global acceptance or concern with this new model from a wider set of stakeholders.

Educational Testing Service



From: Rachael Bradley Montgomery <rachael@accessiblecommunity.org>
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2020 1:38 PM
To: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>; Silver TF <public-silver@w3.org>
Subject: CFC - Publish WCAG 3.0 as FPWD


Call For Consensus — ends Friday October 30th at 2:00 pm Boston time.



The Working Group and Silver Taskforce have discussed publishing W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 as a First Public Working Draft (FPWD).



The document is at: https://w3c.github.io/silver/guidelines/<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fw3c.github.io%2Fsilver%2Fguidelines%2F&data=04%7C01%7CSSAHASRABUDHE%40ets.org%7Cca566d2256fd4a04673d08d8777a8876%7C0ba6e9b760b34fae92f37e6ddd9e9b65%7C0%7C0%7C637390715450266432%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=nwNgu83P9FsTROOWjXSI6xKE7dce4IAIjvGA2SYr5RQ%3D&reserved=0>



Call minutes:
· 1 September AGWG & Silver Meeting Minutes<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2020%2F09%2F01-ag-minutes.html&data=04%7C01%7CSSAHASRABUDHE%40ets.org%7Cca566d2256fd4a04673d08d8777a8876%7C0ba6e9b760b34fae92f37e6ddd9e9b65%7C0%7C0%7C637390715450276389%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=9V8LWQxMRQTrw8PpkNQCbP2W%2BvI0Ta7oNCh%2BgMitKZw%3D&reserved=0>
· 15 September AGWG & Silver Meeting Minutes<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2020%2F09%2F15-ag-minutes.html&data=04%7C01%7CSSAHASRABUDHE%40ets.org%7Cca566d2256fd4a04673d08d8777a8876%7C0ba6e9b760b34fae92f37e6ddd9e9b65%7C0%7C0%7C637390715450276389%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=7spePgmc2nXuM%2FyZhBG%2FlJ9ehBVLpLF8vOS0hpdwlSY%3D&reserved=0>
· 6 October AGWG & Silver Meeting Minutes<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2020%2F10%2F06-ag-minutes.html&data=04%7C01%7CSSAHASRABUDHE%40ets.org%7Cca566d2256fd4a04673d08d8777a8876%7C0ba6e9b760b34fae92f37e6ddd9e9b65%7C0%7C0%7C637390715450286336%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=OVI1LL1MYfB%2FzNxZBA%2FTvLg7LJ7XIpWXw9C%2FcUZMLjM%3D&reserved=0>
· 20 October AGWG & Silver Meeting Minutes<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2020%2F10%2F20-ag-minutes.html%23item03&data=04%7C01%7CSSAHASRABUDHE%40ets.org%7Cca566d2256fd4a04673d08d8777a8876%7C0ba6e9b760b34fae92f37e6ddd9e9b65%7C0%7C0%7C637390715450286336%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=tBtNf0Ba9sWifcNwzWWesH4tCiE7Iu1qRsiSUwzGBWA%3D&reserved=0>

Changes are viewable through the diffs at https://github.com/w3c/silver/commits/master/guidelines/index.html<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fw3c%2Fsilver%2Fcommits%2Fmaster%2Fguidelines%2Findex.html&data=04%7C01%7CSSAHASRABUDHE%40ets.org%7Cca566d2256fd4a04673d08d8777a8876%7C0ba6e9b760b34fae92f37e6ddd9e9b65%7C0%7C0%7C637390715450286336%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=0PBLoXrVAvGK7U7a40o9ok6VEhYx3eFwxGwvc0Qh7NY%3D&reserved=0>



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,



Rachael

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Rachael Montgomery, PhD
Director, Accessible Community
rachael@accessiblecommunity.org<mailto:rachael@accessiblecommunity.org>

"I will paint this day with laughter;
I will frame this night in song."
 - Og Mandino


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