Re: Registries and WCAG?

Hi Léonie,

You are mostly correct in your recollection in that there is a desire for a
registry to store bits and bobs that are related to W3C specs, but should
perhaps not be included I normative specs (too brittle), yet also not be
left to a free-for-all (microformats taxonomies in a public wiki). The
stop-gap solution for Success Criteria 1.3.5 was to include those fixed
terms (taxonomy) directly in WCAG 2.1 (as Section 7). I suspect that as we
advance the Personalization work
<https://www.w3.org/TR/personalization-semantics-1.0/> (more fixed
taxonomies) that the need for such a W3C registry will surface once again.

To my mind, what we need is something as formal as /TR/, but with the
ability for working groups to make changes to this type of content via a
formal process slightly less onerous than a full spec update. Make sense?

I'd voice a huge +1 for any advancement in that direction.

HTH

JF

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 10:10 AM Léonie Watson <lwatson@tetralogical.com>
wrote:

> Hello AG,
>
> I recall that there has been discussion about the use of registries with
> WCAG. If my memory is correct it was John Folio that first mentioned it,
> possibly in relation to storing things like the autocomplete values for
> 1.3.5 (Identify Input Purpose), but I may be wrong about the detail.
>
> I'm mentioning it now because the W3 Process CG has been trying to
> figure out registries and could use some input from WG that might find
> them useful.
>
> The issue is here:
> https://github.com/w3c/w3process/issues/168
>
> Léonie.
>
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