Re: CFC - Update WCAG 3 Working Draft

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As I said in the WG call where the decision for the update was recorded, 
I think a draft of WCAG 3 with just placeholder guideline content after 
several years of WCAG 3 in the making is not satisfactory. We have spent 
*a lot of time* on procedural issues and not enough shaping the actual 
content of the future Guidelines. Conceptually, I believe there is a 
need for an overall architecture, plan, or superstructure, to work out 
where things would fit and how we could correct the many overlaps and 
inconsistencies which have over time crept into WCAG 2.X. I don't see 
that overall plan right now and fear that subgoups starting to flesh 
out, in bottom-up manner, individual guidelines may not be the best way 
to arrive at a consistant overall architecture. (I hope to be wrong on 
that point, though.)

There may be good reasons and/or formal needs to publish an updated 
draft of WCAG 3 (therefore my response is a 0 rather than -1) but as a 
reader, I would be disappointed to see this loose list of draft 
guidelines - it could appear to be even a step backwards from the six 
Guidelines published in the previous draft.

Apart form that I largely agree with Andrew Somers' points made in his 
reply.

Detlev

Am 17.07.2023 um 19:40 schrieb Bradley Montgomery, Rachael L:
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> Call For Consensus — ends Thursday July 21st at 2pm Boston time.
>
> We previously agreed update the WCAG 3 Working Draft from the Editor's 
> Draft <https://w3c.github.io/silver/guidelines/>
>
>
> Our pre-cfc email did raise any additional concerns.
>
>
> The next step (in a futureCFC) will be to agree the re-publishing of 
> WCAG 2.1 & 2.0 in order that these notes (and all the previous errata) 
> are visible in the latest versions of each.
>
> 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 theCfCdeadline.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> -Alastair
>
>

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