- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:37:35 -0700
- To: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Cc: WAI-IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 02:48 PM, Joe Clark wrote: > OK, for example, these two messages-- > <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2003AprJun/1132..html> > <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2003AprJun/1135..html> > -- discuss the errors in WCAG 1.0, and Phill mentioned the idea of > errata for WCAG 1.0, which someone else had brought up a while ago. > Kynn, I think. > > So: What are we gonna do here? > > 1. Divert mindshare and time to produce a WCAG 1.0 errata document, > [...] > 2. Keep working on WCAG 2.0 such that 2.0 includes all the fixes for > the errata of 1.0. Technically there is already an errata for WCAG 1.0, but I think that a cohesive effort needs to be made in order to fold those problems, and other issues, back into the original WCAG 1.0 and issue not an errata, but a "second edition." Many major W3C recommendations (such as XHTML 1.0) have published "second editions" which don't increment the version number -- they remain 1.0 -- but which clear up problems, confusion, or errors in the original document. This is the approach that should be taken with WCAG 1.0, in preparation for WCAG 2.0 -- I think that by explicitly identifying and solving the small changes in WCAG 1.0, it will actually help to produce a cleaner, tighter, and more usable WCAG 2.0 eventually, somewhere down the road. As Tina said, we're going to be stuck with WCAG 1.0 for a while, and it's important that the W3C be seen as properly managing that document throughout its lifetime. (This also involves giving definitive, but date-specific, information on the "until user agent" clauses in WCAG 1.0.) --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain http://idyllmtn.com Shock & Awe Blog http://shock-awe.info Author, CSS in 24 Hours http://cssin24hours.com Inland Anti-Empire Blog http://inlandantiempire.org
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