Re: CFC - Update WCAG 3 Working Draft

0 from me as well, very much in line with Detlev's thoughts here.

Patrick

On 18/07/2023 11:02, Detlev Fischer wrote:
> 0
> 
> 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:
>>
>> 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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