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Spec Review
This page is a table to organizing reviews of the HTML specification. Currently under review is the 25 May 2011 public Last Call Working Draft. The first column is a "short name" for the set of document sections under review and a link to a wiki page to store the reviews. The second column contains links to the section(s) of the HTML document. The third column is the people assigned to do the review, and the fourth column is any notes. For the review, please review everything under the heading referenced including sub-headings, but not sibling headings (additional pointers to siblings are provided if needed).
Entire spec review in one page
Spec Review Assignments
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Cynthia to get Microsoft review Need reviewers from Apple (James Craig, Eric Carlson to contact), Opera (Charles McCathieNevile), Mozilla (David Bolter) - Janina to contact last two |
Simon Harper James Craig Greg Lowney |
Summary: 2.2.3 Extensibility Bug 13430 - 2.2.3 Extensibility http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_Bug.cgi?id=13430
Bug 13412 - Editorial change to 2.8.2.3 HTMLFormControlsCollection http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_Bug.cgi?id=13412 |
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ask Gregory - no contact yet |
Simon Harper Joshue O Connor Greg Lowney |
Gez - unable to review | ||
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ARIA sub-team; action items relate to this |
Joseph Scheuhammer |
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Other? |
Cynthia |
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John Foliot Katie Haritos-Shea |
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Lynn Holdsworth |
if this is just script binding, probably don't need review, but if it's features we do |
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Katie Haritos-Shea Liddy Nevile? |
Léonie Watson |
Léonie: 2 bugs filed | ||
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Other? |
Léonie Watson |
Léonie: no comments |
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Text alternatives sub-group |
Bruce Bailey |
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Rich Schwerdtfeger |
Changes to iframe part needs close review Gez unable to review |
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Media sub-group Janina Sajka Geoff Freed? Marku Hakkinen (UAAG) will review |
John Foliot |
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Canvas sub-group |
John Foliot |
Mainly binding for canvas defined externally Note HTML 5 / WhatWG versions forked because of disagreement over edits in Canvas2D spec Rich notes this review is pointless while the engineering holes under current work remain |
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Steve Faulkner Other? |
Michael Cooper |
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Neil Soiffer? John Foliot to get colleague review Need UA vendors to review the implementation issues |
John Gardner |
John: I have looked over the specs and also asked Courtney Christensen, a ViewPlus expert on SVG and MathML to check them as well. We both note that there is nothing about accessibility in these two specs. There are a few things that should be specified, although perhaps not in these two sections. Until these are specified it will be impossible to make math and graphics uniformly accessible across all platforms, user agents, and screen readers. There may be implementation issues, also check the parsing section for issues e.g., with annotationXML |
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Charles McCathieNevile? Cynthia to find someone from Microsoft |
Matt May |
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Lynn Holdsworth |
Joshue O Connor Yeliz Yesilada Bruce Bailey Simon Harper |
Josh: Added initial feedback regarding @summary in HTML 5 and the examples given using |
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Joshue O Connor Markku Hakkinen / UAWG Cynthia Shelly |
needs careful review Markku review possibly not completed before migration from UAWG wiki Cynthia review: [1] |
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Steve Faulkner Cynthia Shelly Other? |
Michael Cooper |
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Cynthia need others, ideally from content producers like Oracle, SAP (stefan), Facebook (???) |
James Nurthen Greg Lowney |
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Others? |
Michael Cooper |
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Others? |
Léonie Watson Greg Lowney |
Consider ARIA landmarks, WCAG techniques Léonie: Strongly recommend review by at least one other person |
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Kelly Ford / UAWG |
Kelly: No issues found |
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Rich Schwerdtfeger |
Mick Curran |
subset of user agents but needs additonal review e.g., from Rich, Gregg, AT developers Gregg Vanderheiden unable to review |
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Cynthia to find Microsoft reviewer Rich Schwerdtfeger to find IBM reviewer Mike to ask Steve to review |
Unknown relationship to AAPIs; need closer review Gez unable to review Josh to review Biggest concern seems to be dynamic markup insertion i.e., document.write() |
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Charles McCathieNevile? Judy Brewer |
UAWG Greg Lowney |
Unknown relationship to AAPIs; need closer review |
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Microsoft? |
Rich Schwerdtfeger Léonie Watson Greg Lowney Andrew Kirkpatrick |
Léonie: no comments. |
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Everett Zufelt? |
Mick Curran Andrew Kirkpatrick |
Lower priority, think we're ok with results of previous work Gez Lemon unable to review |
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Cynthia to coordinate Microsoft review Opera? Apple? Rich Schwerdtfeger to find IBM reviewer Google? |
Need an accessibility person at implementers to sit down with people who deal with this level to ferret out accessibility issues |
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UAWG Microsoft? Opera? Apple? Rich Schwerdtfeger to find IBM reviewer Google? |
Need an accessibility person at implementers to sit down with people who deal with this level to ferret out accessibility issues |
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John Foliot |
lightweight review that nothing has been slipped in here besides what we're already working on |
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Unattached |
Reviews unattached to particular sections |
Other Sources for Accessibility Review
Other reviews (to be merged in eventually):
- UAWG review
- Figcaption examples and refinement bug request
- Other support letters on certain features
- Bug(s?) on incorrect alt guidance