Re: Question regarding browser-specific issues

Hi,

Following up on this, Janina, I love your suggestions. But may I ask, what is an FPWD?

Rajiv
----- Original Message -----
From: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
To: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
Cc: Brooks Newton <brooksallennewton@gmail.com>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Sent: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 23:07:00 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Question regarding browser-specific issues

In the past WAI attempted to address this with separate specifications
WCAG for content, ATAG for authoring, UAAG for user agents.

The current AGWG Charter rolls this all into WCAG 3, though the recently
published FPWD doesn't reflect this expectation yet.

I propose a good starting point for Silver, something I have raised and
will raise again, would be low hanging fruit. My top suggestions:

* Auto-playing audio. There's no reason a browser can't block
* that.

* Constraints on flashing can also be mitigated by user agents. I
* would far rather depend on a user agent for such prophylaxis
* than on the good behavior of content creators.

May I note that flashing is life threatening to many who are sensitive
to flashing. I think it's unique in that sense among WCAG SC.

Best,

Janina

Patrick H. Lauke writes:
> On 17/02/2021 23:21, Brooks Newton wrote:
> > There will be no appetite if you haven't taken the first step in making
> > it a possibility, which is to include all parties to the user experience
> > in the master plan framework for accessibility. The W3C, or any other
> > standards body for that matter, lacks the direct capacity to compel
> > content authors to adjust their sites, apps, etc. to follow WCAG rules.
> > So how did it work it out that WCAG only speaks to content authors, and
> > not the other parties to the user experience?
> 
> Again, I'd refer you to UAAG and ATAG and the work that WAI has attempted in
> the past at getting browser devs, AT devs, etc around the table. Sure, it
> might be worth another shot, but let's not make it sound like this hasn't
> actually been attempted before...
> 
> P
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Janina Sajka
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Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa