Requesting addition of an Accessibility Considerations section

[becka11y]

An accessibility review of Data Catalog Vocabulary (Version 3) was requested of the APA as part of our role in performing horizontal review of W3C documents for accessibility concerns.

It was reviewed by APA member Paul Grenier who made the following comments that were approved by the working group. We are requesting the addition of an Accessibility Considerations section.

1. The addition of an Accessibility Considerations section at the same level of Security and Privacy can help increase awareness of accessibility issues in data.
2. In an Accessibility Considerations section, I'd like to see a recommendation to, when possible, enforce alternative text for non-text data resources through the DCAT profile mechanisms or systems supporting the creation and editing of such data. This will help applications using the data to conform to WCAG 1.1 Text Alternatives (https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/text-equiv.html).

[riccardoAlbertoni]

Thanks for your suggestions, @becka11y.

We have discussed your request during the last dcat subgroup meeting (see meeting minutes [1]). Could you please take a look and provide feedback about the early drafted accessibility section available in [2].
Would a section like the one drafted go in the expected direction? Is there anything else you were expecting us to include?

If the drafted section does not go in the wished direction, please consider providing examples of other accessibility sections appearing in w3c rec or any other reference from which we can take inspiration.

Thanks a lot,

[1] https://www.w3.org/2021/05/26-dxwgdcat-minutes#t03
[2] https://raw.githack.com/w3c/dxwg/dcat-issue-1358/dcat/index.html#accessibility

[riccardoAlbertoni]

We have merged PR #1373 into the editorial draft.
Thus the accessibility section is now available at the link [2] https://w3c.github.io/dxwg/dcat/#accessibility.

[riccardoAlbertoni]

Closing the issue as discussed in the latest plenary teleconference, see https://www.w3.org/2021/09/07-dxwg-minutes#t02 .

[plehegar]

Discussed in APA yesterday: https://www.w3.org/2021/09/22-apa-minutes.html#t06