Re: CFC Move WCAG 2.2 to Candidate Recommendation

0 - echoing Wilco's comments on 4.1.1 and WCAG 2.0 and 2.1.

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On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 1:03 PM Wilco Fiers <wilco.fiers@deque.com> wrote:

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> There is still an open issue on what to do with success criterion 4.1.1
> for WCAG 2.0 and 2.1. We have a note agreed on by the working group during
> a call. All that was needed for us to resolve that issue was a CfC on the
> matter. The pull request is already open. It could even have gone out in
> parallel with the CfC for CR3.
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> Given that multiple people asked for clarity on this in response to CR2, I
> feel it would be much better if we could share the answer with CR3. I can
> live with this not being ready for CR3, but that would change if this
> remains unresolved when we get to proposed rec.
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> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 1:13 AM Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
> wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
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>> Call For Consensus — ends Tuesday 2nd April at 5pm Boston time.
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>> The Working Group has agreed (in meetings) to re-start the Candidate
>> Recommendation stage for WCAG 2.2.
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>> This CFC is to approve that transition into CR, including the changes
>> made since the last one.
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>> There are updates to Target Size and Focus Appearance, which can be
>> viewed here:
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>> https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/3123/files
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>> These two SCs will be marked ‘at risk’, with a fallback to the previous
>> versions. If that fall back is also not agreed, then it would result in
>> removal. (For Focus Appearance, the fallback would be the previous text at
>> AAA level.)
>> The fallbacks for ‘at risk’ are subject to approval from W3C management,
>> we would return to the group if it is not approved.
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>> Minor changes since the last CR:
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>>    - A non-normative change to Focus Not Obscured (adjusting the notes)
>>    was agreed: https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/3083/files
>>    - Accessibility Authentication had “(minimum)” added to the name:
>>    https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/3132/files
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>> 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.
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>> Kind regards,
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>> -Alastair
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>> @alastc / www.nomensa.com
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> *Wilco Fiers*
> Axe-core & Axe-linter product owner - WCAG 3 Project Manager - Facilitator
> ACT Task Force
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