RE: Issues with specification formatting

I got some useful information on where to take the respec issues last week at TPAC, but I’m curious if anyone here has an opinion about whether the normative and informative links in W3C specifications fail the use of color SC? This issue was raised in our horizontal review here: https://github.com/w3c/epub-specs/issues/1837

 

My understanding is that the use of brackets around these should be sufficient to identify them, so I don’t see the need to raise this as an issue, but I’d be interested to hear if anyone disagrees.

 

Matt

 

From: Matt Garrish <matt.garrish@gmail.com> 
Sent: October 21, 2021 9:21 AM
To: 'Hidde de Vries' <hidde@w3.org>
Cc: 'Storr, Francis' <francis.storr@intel.com>; 'John Foliot' <john@foliot.ca>; 'Patrick H. Lauke' <redux@splintered.co.uk>; 'WCAG' <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Subject: Issues with specification formatting (was RE: Updating 2.x support materials redesign release)

 

> this thread is specifically about the redesign of support materials (Techniques and Understanding), which are (on purpose) in a different style than the specifications / ReSpec

 

Thanks, understood! I’m not specifically asking for solutions within this work (renaming the subject to avoid hijacking that thread), but it’s more a general question of how this group has handled accessibility within the documents that respec produces, given that any issues will likely run the gamut of W3C specifications. Is the advice just to refile any issues raised in our specs against the respec issue tracker and assume that whoever needs to weigh in will? Or is there another process for dealing with accessibility issues?

 

Matt

 

From: Hidde de Vries <hidde@w3.org <mailto:hidde@w3.org> > 
Sent: October 20, 2021 5:42 PM
To: Matt Garrish <matt.garrish@gmail.com <mailto:matt.garrish@gmail.com> >
Cc: Storr, Francis <francis.storr@intel.com <mailto:francis.storr@intel.com> >; John Foliot <john@foliot.ca <mailto:john@foliot.ca> >; Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk <mailto:redux@splintered.co.uk> >; WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org <mailto:w3c-wai-gl@w3.org> >
Subject: Re: Updating 2.x support materials redesign release

 

Hi Matt,

 

On 19 Oct 2021, at 16:21, Matt Garrish <matt.garrish@gmail.com <mailto:matt.garrish@gmail.com> > wrote:

 

> so is there a conversation about color choice vs. internal consistency of design?

 

Jumping in from the epub side, it would be very helpful to figure out how to deal with accessibility issues in the respec output/organizational styles. We should be fixing issues for all specifications otherwise we break any hope of conformity of appearance/structure.

 

Sorry for the confusion - this thread is specifically about the redesign of support materials (Techniques and Understanding), which are (on purpose) in a different style than the specifications / ReSpec, drawing from the WAI website redesign visual styles.

 

Best,

Hidde

 

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