Re[2]: Issues with specification formatting

I agree that the square brackets around the normative references act as 
a non-colour identifier for the links (provided that there's no 
instances of those brackets appearing around words that aren't links).

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------ Original Message ------
From: "Matt Garrish" <matt.garrish@gmail.com>
To: "'WCAG'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Sent: 01/11/2021 12:12:12
Subject: 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
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>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.
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>Matt
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>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)
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> > 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
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>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?
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>Matt
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>From: Hidde de Vries <hidde@w3.org>
>Sent: October 20, 2021 5:42 PM
>To: Matt Garrish <matt.garrish@gmail.com>
>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: Re: Updating 2.x support materials redesign release
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>Hi Matt,
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>>On 19 Oct 2021, at 16:21, Matt Garrish <matt.garrish@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > so is there a conversation about color choice vs. internal 
>>consistency of design?
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>>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.
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>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.
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>Best,
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>Hidde
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>Web Accessibility Specialist ・ https://w3.org/people/hidde ・ Web 
>Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
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