Re: CFC - Publish new draft of WCAG-EM

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Op do 15 jan 2026 om 05:14 schreef Katie Haritos-Shea <ryladog@gmail.com>

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> On Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 1:18 PM Jen Goulden <jgoulden@crawfordtech.com>
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>> +1
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>> *From:* Alastair Campbell <alastair.campbell@thisisgain.com>
>> *Sent:* January 14, 2026 11:42 AM
>> *To:* WCAG list <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
>> *Subject:* CFC - Publish new draft of WCAG-EM
>> *Importance:* High
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>> Call For Consensus — ends 21st January 2026 at midday Boston time.
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>> The request is to publish the draft of WCAG-EM 2.0
>> <https://w3c.github.io/wai-wcag-em/>.
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>> There is a Diff of the component markdown files
>> <https://github.com/w3c/wai-wcag-em/commit/0ec06bb41aeece3f4b533a85a12a845305700767>.
>> There is not a diff between the two final documents as the differences in
>> format would make it much harder to use.
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>> No issues were raised after the previous call in December.
>> <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2025OctDec/0075.html>
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>> To support the CFC please reply to the group with a “+1”.
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>> before the CfC deadline.
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>> Kind regards,
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>> -Alastair
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