- From: Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@ncbi.ie>
- Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:22:53 +0000
- To: jonathanhassell@yahoo.co.uk
- CC: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org, webaim-forum@list.webaim.org, John Foliot <john@foliot.ca>, accessys@smart.net
Dr Jonathan Hassell wrote: > Thanks for this, Joshue. > > Good to see something's happening - I felt sure it must be. > > Is there a way that people outside the drafting committee can see the work you're doing? Unfortunately, right now no. This isn't for any conspiratorial reason I can assure you, its just that with any new techniques, to effectively provide guidance on using HTML5 and ARIA, they need to be pretty bullet proof before anything is released. If we did this prematurely, then something may get incorrectly codified as best practice or indeed be seen to have be given some kind of imprimatur from the W3C, when it's actually a work in progress. So this work is currently ongoing and has been for over a year, by members of both Protocols and Formats (PFWG) and the WCAG group itself. Within the HTML5/ARIA Techniques task force, where we are creating these techniques, and to be clear our job isn't to update the core WCAG SC or anything like that (so apologies for any confusion), we are developing a current point of reference and guidance to give devs a much needed steer in the right direction. To do this, we need to provide robust useful examples, and also attempt to indicate any user agent support issues for various element/attribute/states/properties etc. To call it a moveable feast, would be an understatement but as specifications become more stable, and user agent support improves, I see things ramping up. As Gregg pointed out, WCAG itself is stable and needs to be for obvious reasons but in terms of creating fresh techniques - we are making progress. Cheers Josh Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ncbiworkingforpeoplewithsightloss Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ncbi_sightloss Check-out NCBI's Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh appeal on the following link. http://youtu.be/25P2tiuCi0U ******************************************************************** National Council for the Blind of Ireland (NCBI) is a company limited by guarantee (registered in Ireland No. 26293) . Our registered office is at Whitworth Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9. NCBI is also a registered Charity (chy4626). NOTICE: The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you should not use, disclose, distribute or copy any of the content of it or of any attachment; you are requested to notify the sender immediately of your receipt of the email and then to delete it and any attachments from your system. NCBI endeavours to ensure that emails and any attachments generated by its staff are free from viruses or other contaminants. However, it cannot accept any responsibility for any such which are transmitted. We therefore recommend you scan all attachments. Please note that the statements and views expressed in this email and any attachments are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of NCBI ********************************************************************
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