RE: CFC - 4.1.1 Parsing in WCAG 2.0 and 2.1

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I support the idea of adding a note, but not the specific proposed text, particularly the sentence "This criterion can therefore be ignored as being redundant." The normative conformance model doesn't make any affordance for authors being allowed to ignore criteria just because they are redundant, and we shouldn't be adding non-normative notes that sound like they're overriding the normative conformance model.

Instead of the note saying "you can ignore the criteria because it's redundant", I would be much more comfortable having it say "you can ignore the criteria because we consider the exception already written into the normative text of the SC to apply to all HTML content." I think this is an important distinction, particularly for the purposes of minimizing drive-by non-conformance claims.

I've included a more complete suggestion along these lines as a comment in PR #3116<https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/3116#discussion_r1147007984>.

-Dan

From: Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2023 8:35 AM
To: WCAG list (w3c-wai-gl@w3.org) <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Subject: CFC - 4.1.1 Parsing in WCAG 2.0 and 2.1
Importance: High

Hi everyone,

Call For Consensus - ends Tuesday 28th March at 1PM Boston time.

Following from a previous CFC which did not pass:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2023JanMar/0201.html

We discussed an alternative:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2023JanMar/0282.html

That alternative appears to have support (including from those objecting to the previous CFC).

The change has been implemented here:
https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/3116

It adds the proposed note to the SC text, and updates the understanding document. The understanding document states that it has been removed from 2.2 but remains in WCAG 2.0 and 2.1 with a note (and replicates the note there).

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,

-Alastair

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