From 65a2fb0bb9db1dc998a74d386cb5cbdf0b1fe22d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Cooper Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 10:40:20 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 01/15] add equity section --- requirements/index.html | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) diff --git a/requirements/index.html b/requirements/index.html index 3544c05a..10393829 100644 --- a/requirements/index.html +++ b/requirements/index.html @@ -130,6 +130,35 @@

Maintenance

Governance: Utilize tools that allow interested parties to predict when issues important to them are being discussed. Maintain a backlog that reflects issues along with their status. +
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Equity

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This section is exploratory. Outstanding questions that need to be addressed include:

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  • Should Equity assist in uptake of WCAG3 by regulators?
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  • How do we incorporate guidance for functional needs for which we lack expertise in the group?
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  • How can we add guidance for technological solutions that don’t yet exist?
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  • How do we make WCAG conformance realistically adoptable for various organization types?
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  • How do we address circumstances where user groups have conflicting needs?
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  • Could including more functional categories get a better score and less functional categories would get a poorer score? Would that improve equity or reduce it in practice?
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  • How can we make the use of the guidelines equitable across user needs (i.e., a blind person being able to caption or judge color contrast)?
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  • In a guideline specification, how far can we go to support socioeconomic impact on people with disabilities?
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  • How can we ensure that we are in alignment with various international civil rights legislation?
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  • How do we balance intersecting dimensions of equity? For instance, we might consider equity in context of population size or proportion addressed, technical difficulty or cost of solutions, degree of importance to users, verifiability of conformance, etc. Increasing equity in one dimension could involve trade-offs in others.
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The term “equity” refers to the ability of people with diverse characteristics to access and understand content, and to participate effectively in processes. Web accessibility guidelines seek to increase equity for people with disabilities by ensuring supports are provided for people with different functional needs. Work towards equity considers three layers:

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The primary scope for WCAG 3 is to address equity for persons with disabilities. Efforts towards equity must, however, take into account all types of human difference. This includes but is not limited to gender, gender identity and gender expression, sexual orientation, disability (both visible and invisible), mental health, neurotype, physical appearance, body, age, race, socio-economic status, ethnicity, caste, nationality, language, or religion.

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“Equity” as a noun is a hypothetical or target state, not one that will necessarily be fully reached in practice. Equity is distinct from equality, in that equity focuses on equivalent results, whereas equality only provides similar opportunities. An equitable practice may provide minimal supports for many users, moderate for others, and extensive for some, in order for all of them to be able to complete a task with comparable facility. Requirements for equity are informed by the nature of inequities that exist.

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An “equity-centered process” aims to make meaningful progress towards the goal of reducing inequity. The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group’s participatory design approach requires involvement from people across the spectrum of functional needs, with appropriate supports for ongoing building of awareness, trust in each other, and ownership of personal responsibility in the process. It also requires accountability to the process and results, in the form of cyclical progress reviews and goal updates.

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The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group maintains an Equity Framework which documents the group’s goals for equity with concrete plans to achieve them. The equity framework must be considered in technical decisisions about the design of WCAG 3, such as expanded test types and identification of functional needs. It also informs equity in the group’s process, and where appropriate identifies relationships to structural equity issues. The group must conduct periodic reviews of progress towards equity in impact and process, identifying ongoing or new barriers and proposing solutions.

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This proposal involves a restructure of the wiki page at the equity framework link, moving most of the current content to side resources and focusing it on identified issues, concrete plans, and progress reviews.

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Design Principles

From c735cd1f47f276edde25579fb920541103c0004f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Cooper Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 10:50:09 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 02/15] typo --- requirements/index.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/requirements/index.html b/requirements/index.html index 10393829..2f6979dc 100644 --- a/requirements/index.html +++ b/requirements/index.html @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@

Equity

The primary scope for WCAG 3 is to address equity for persons with disabilities. Efforts towards equity must, however, take into account all types of human difference. This includes but is not limited to gender, gender identity and gender expression, sexual orientation, disability (both visible and invisible), mental health, neurotype, physical appearance, body, age, race, socio-economic status, ethnicity, caste, nationality, language, or religion.

“Equity” as a noun is a hypothetical or target state, not one that will necessarily be fully reached in practice. Equity is distinct from equality, in that equity focuses on equivalent results, whereas equality only provides similar opportunities. An equitable practice may provide minimal supports for many users, moderate for others, and extensive for some, in order for all of them to be able to complete a task with comparable facility. Requirements for equity are informed by the nature of inequities that exist.

An “equity-centered process” aims to make meaningful progress towards the goal of reducing inequity. The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group’s participatory design approach requires involvement from people across the spectrum of functional needs, with appropriate supports for ongoing building of awareness, trust in each other, and ownership of personal responsibility in the process. It also requires accountability to the process and results, in the form of cyclical progress reviews and goal updates.

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The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group maintains an Equity Framework which documents the group’s goals for equity with concrete plans to achieve them. The equity framework must be considered in technical decisisions about the design of WCAG 3, such as expanded test types and identification of functional needs. It also informs equity in the group’s process, and where appropriate identifies relationships to structural equity issues. The group must conduct periodic reviews of progress towards equity in impact and process, identifying ongoing or new barriers and proposing solutions.

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The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group maintains an Equity Framework which documents the group’s goals for equity with concrete plans to achieve them. The equity framework must be considered in technical decisions about the design of WCAG 3, such as expanded test types and identification of functional needs. It also informs equity in the group’s process, and where appropriate identifies relationships to structural equity issues. The group must conduct periodic reviews of progress towards equity in impact and process, identifying ongoing or new barriers and proposing solutions.

This proposal involves a restructure of the wiki page at the equity framework link, moving most of the current content to side resources and focusing it on identified issues, concrete plans, and progress reviews.

From 23cc9ff9bc3ff051e2b1f4029be6acb3255b76d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Cooper Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:31:39 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 03/15] tweak from Jennifer --- requirements/index.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/requirements/index.html b/requirements/index.html index 2f6979dc..08990036 100644 --- a/requirements/index.html +++ b/requirements/index.html @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@

Equity

The term “equity” refers to the ability of people with diverse characteristics to access and understand content, and to participate effectively in processes. Web accessibility guidelines seek to increase equity for people with disabilities by ensuring supports are provided for people with different functional needs. Work towards equity considers three layers:

From be616434fbe59884aeae4d15a7d0f1126001f249 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Cooper Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2022 11:29:42 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 04/15] Add questions from CS --- requirements/index.html | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/requirements/index.html b/requirements/index.html index 08990036..2c238526 100644 --- a/requirements/index.html +++ b/requirements/index.html @@ -145,6 +145,10 @@

Equity

  • In a guideline specification, how far can we go to support socioeconomic impact on people with disabilities?
  • How can we ensure that we are in alignment with various international civil rights legislation?
  • How do we balance intersecting dimensions of equity? For instance, we might consider equity in context of population size or proportion addressed, technical difficulty or cost of solutions, degree of importance to users, verifiability of conformance, etc. Increasing equity in one dimension could involve trade-offs in others.
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  • How might principles of equity be raised proactively in the design of the conformance model?
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  • In what ways does AG WG take accountability to address equity challenges to WCAG or in WAI or elsewhere?
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  • Are mechanisms beyond CEPC needed to address equity in participation, membership and contribution? 
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  • Is CEPC an effective mechanism to address these concerns and what gaps exist?

    • The term “equity” refers to the ability of people with diverse characteristics to access and understand content, and to participate effectively in processes. Web accessibility guidelines seek to increase equity for people with disabilities by ensuring supports are provided for people with different functional needs. Work towards equity considers three layers:

    From d92fc113f2df26beaaeaa427de8abc632886d585 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Cooper Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2022 11:30:42 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 05/15] update inclusion statement to match proposed CEPC change https://github.com/w3c/PWETF/pull/209 --- requirements/index.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/requirements/index.html b/requirements/index.html index 2c238526..ce9eceec 100644 --- a/requirements/index.html +++ b/requirements/index.html @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@

    Equity

  • Equity in process: The process of developing WCAG 3 requires equity to be an active part of the working group process. It is important to enable broad participation by seeking broad participation, welcoming contributors, respecting viewpoints, accommodating language fluency and comprehension differences, using accessible tools and providing reasonable support if needed, and supporting multiple modes of interaction and discussion.
  • Structural equity: Inequity can be caused or reinforced by social systems, such as prevailing beliefs, laws and regulations, and institutional patterns. These constitute a context of equity challenges for the process and impact of WCAG 3 that need to be considered. While structural equity is outside the direct scope of W3C standards, the impact of WCAG 3 can be a part of structural equity solutions.
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    The primary scope for WCAG 3 is to address equity for persons with disabilities. Efforts towards equity must, however, take into account all types of human difference. This includes but is not limited to gender, gender identity and gender expression, sexual orientation, disability (both visible and invisible), mental health, neurotype, physical appearance, body, age, race, socio-economic status, ethnicity, caste, nationality, language, or religion.

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    The primary scope for WCAG 3 is to address equity for persons with disabilities. Efforts towards equity must, however, take into account all types of human difference. This includes but is not limited to socio-economic status, sexual orientation, religion, race, physical appearance, neurotype, nationality, mental health, language, indigeneity, immigration status, gender, gender identity and gender expression, ethnicity, disability (both visible and invisible), caste, body, or age.

    “Equity” as a noun is a hypothetical or target state, not one that will necessarily be fully reached in practice. Equity is distinct from equality, in that equity focuses on equivalent results, whereas equality only provides similar opportunities. An equitable practice may provide minimal supports for many users, moderate for others, and extensive for some, in order for all of them to be able to complete a task with comparable facility. Requirements for equity are informed by the nature of inequities that exist.

    An “equity-centered process” aims to make meaningful progress towards the goal of reducing inequity. The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group’s participatory design approach requires involvement from people across the spectrum of functional needs, with appropriate supports for ongoing building of awareness, trust in each other, and ownership of personal responsibility in the process. It also requires accountability to the process and results, in the form of cyclical progress reviews and goal updates.

    The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group maintains an Equity Framework which documents the group’s goals for equity with concrete plans to achieve them. The equity framework must be considered in technical decisions about the design of WCAG 3, such as expanded test types and identification of functional needs. It also informs equity in the group’s process, and where appropriate identifies relationships to structural equity issues. The group must conduct periodic reviews of progress towards equity in impact and process, identifying ongoing or new barriers and proposing solutions.

    From 2c15f6b536008fdfe5aaa6fee3a3c2f532d58921 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeanne Spellman Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 17:15:55 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 06/15] updates from AG meeting of 12 September 2022 Mostly rearranges sections and consolidates the questions into a shorter list. --- requirements/index.html | 37 +++++++++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/requirements/index.html b/requirements/index.html index ce9eceec..9e73af7e 100644 --- a/requirements/index.html +++ b/requirements/index.html @@ -133,35 +133,28 @@

    Maintenance

    Equity

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    This section is exploratory. Outstanding questions that need to be addressed include:

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    • Should Equity assist in uptake of WCAG3 by regulators?
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    • How do we incorporate guidance for functional needs for which we lack expertise in the group?
      • -
    • How can we add guidance for technological solutions that don’t yet exist?
      • -
    • How do we make WCAG conformance realistically adoptable for various organization types?
      • -
    • How do we address circumstances where user groups have conflicting needs?
      • -
    • Could including more functional categories get a better score and less functional categories would get a poorer score? Would that improve equity or reduce it in practice?
      • -
    • How can we make the use of the guidelines equitable across user needs (i.e., a blind person being able to caption or judge color contrast)?
      • -
    • In a guideline specification, how far can we go to support socioeconomic impact on people with disabilities?
      • -
    • How can we ensure that we are in alignment with various international civil rights legislation?
      • -
    • How do we balance intersecting dimensions of equity? For instance, we might consider equity in context of population size or proportion addressed, technical difficulty or cost of solutions, degree of importance to users, verifiability of conformance, etc. Increasing equity in one dimension could involve trade-offs in others.
      • -
    • How might principles of equity be raised proactively in the design of the conformance model?
      • -
    • In what ways does AG WG take accountability to address equity challenges to WCAG or in WAI or elsewhere?
      • -
    • Are mechanisms beyond CEPC needed to address equity in participation, membership and contribution? 
      • -
    • Is CEPC an effective mechanism to address these concerns and what gaps exist?
      • -
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    The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group wants to commit to improving equity in WCAG3. Exactly what that will encompass and how it can be measured is under exploration and discussion.

    -

    The term “equity” refers to the ability of people with diverse characteristics to access and understand content, and to participate effectively in processes. Web accessibility guidelines seek to increase equity for people with disabilities by ensuring supports are provided for people with different functional needs. Work towards equity considers three layers:

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    The primary scope for WCAG 3 is to address equity for persons with disabilities. Efforts towards equity must, however, consider the spectrum of human experience. This includes but is not limited to socio-economic status, sexual orientation, religion, race, physical appearance, neurotype, nationality, mental health, language, indigeneity, immigration status, gender, gender identity and gender expression, ethnicity, disability (both visible and invisible), caste, body, or age.

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    The term “equity” refers to the ability of people with diverse characteristics to access and understand content and to participate effectively in processes. Web accessibility guidelines seek to increase equity for people with disabilities by ensuring supports are provided for people with different functional needs. Work towards equity considers three layers:

    • Equity in impact: WCAG 3 aims to improve accessibility of web content for users with diverse functional needs. The goal of equity in impact is to ensure that no user group with accessibility needs finds their needs overlooked or less well covered than other groups. This aims to ensure that sites conforming to WCAG 3 are equivalently accessible to all.
    • Equity in process: The process of developing WCAG 3 requires equity to be an active part of the working group process. It is important to enable broad participation by seeking broad participation, welcoming contributors, respecting viewpoints, accommodating language fluency and comprehension differences, using accessible tools and providing reasonable support if needed, and supporting multiple modes of interaction and discussion.
    • Structural equity: Inequity can be caused or reinforced by social systems, such as prevailing beliefs, laws and regulations, and institutional patterns. These constitute a context of equity challenges for the process and impact of WCAG 3 that need to be considered. While structural equity is outside the direct scope of W3C standards, the impact of WCAG 3 can be a part of structural equity solutions.
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    The primary scope for WCAG 3 is to address equity for persons with disabilities. Efforts towards equity must, however, take into account all types of human difference. This includes but is not limited to socio-economic status, sexual orientation, religion, race, physical appearance, neurotype, nationality, mental health, language, indigeneity, immigration status, gender, gender identity and gender expression, ethnicity, disability (both visible and invisible), caste, body, or age.

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    “Equity” as a noun is a hypothetical or target state, not one that will necessarily be fully reached in practice. Equity is distinct from equality, in that equity focuses on equivalent results, whereas equality only provides similar opportunities. An equitable practice may provide minimal supports for many users, moderate for others, and extensive for some, in order for all of them to be able to complete a task with comparable facility. Requirements for equity are informed by the nature of inequities that exist.

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    “Equity” as a noun is a hypothetical or target state, not one that will necessarily be fully reached in practice. It is also a lens through which to analyze practices or outcomes. Equity is distinct from equality, in that equity focuses on equivalent results, whereas equality only provides similar opportunities. An equitable practice may provide minimal supports for many users, moderate for others, and extensive for some, in order for all of them to be able to complete a task with comparable facility. Requirements for equity are informed by the nature of inequities that exist.

    An “equity-centered process” aims to make meaningful progress towards the goal of reducing inequity. The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group’s participatory design approach requires involvement from people across the spectrum of functional needs, with appropriate supports for ongoing building of awareness, trust in each other, and ownership of personal responsibility in the process. It also requires accountability to the process and results, in the form of cyclical progress reviews and goal updates.

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    The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group maintains an Equity Framework which documents the group’s goals for equity with concrete plans to achieve them. The equity framework must be considered in technical decisions about the design of WCAG 3, such as expanded test types and identification of functional needs. It also informs equity in the group’s process, and where appropriate identifies relationships to structural equity issues. The group must conduct periodic reviews of progress towards equity in impact and process, identifying ongoing or new barriers and proposing solutions.

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    This proposal involves a restructure of the wiki page at the equity framework link, moving most of the current content to side resources and focusing it on identified issues, concrete plans, and progress reviews.

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    Outstanding questions that need to be addressed include:

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    • How can we recruit more diverse people with disabilities in developing WCAG3?
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    • What should WCAG3 Conformance be for various organization types?
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    • How should Conformance satisfy varying or conflicting user needs and address equitable prioritization of guidance?
      • +
    • How can equity issues in WCAG3 align with civil legislation?
      • +
    • In a W3C guideline technical report, how far can we go to address socio-economic impact on people with disabilities?
      • +
    • How might principles of equity be raised proactively in the design of the conformance model?
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    From 99e4cbe9ed9f341ac3c492a717b66eb1b0f4b9cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeanne Spellman Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 18:52:06 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 07/15] typo in line 138 --- requirements/index.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/requirements/index.html b/requirements/index.html index 9e73af7e..de83fee1 100644 --- a/requirements/index.html +++ b/requirements/index.html @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@

    Equity

    The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group wants to commit to improving equity in WCAG3. Exactly what that will encompass and how it can be measured is under exploration and discussion.

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    The primary scope for WCAG 3 is to address equity for persons with disabilities. Efforts towards equity must, however, consider the spectrum of human experience. This includes but is not limited to socio-economic status, sexual orientation, religion, race, physical appearance, neurotype, nationality, mental health, language, indigeneity, immigration status, gender, gender identity and gender expression, ethnicity, disability (both visible and invisible), caste, body, or age.

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    The primary scope for equity in WCAG 3 is to address equity for persons with disabilities. Efforts towards equity must, however, consider the spectrum of human experience. This includes but is not limited to socio-economic status, sexual orientation, religion, race, physical appearance, neurotype, nationality, mental health, language, indigeneity, immigration status, gender, gender identity and gender expression, ethnicity, disability (both visible and invisible), caste, body, or age.

    The term “equity” refers to the ability of people with diverse characteristics to access and understand content and to participate effectively in processes. Web accessibility guidelines seek to increase equity for people with disabilities by ensuring supports are provided for people with different functional needs. Work towards equity considers three layers:

    • Equity in impact: WCAG 3 aims to improve accessibility of web content for users with diverse functional needs. The goal of equity in impact is to ensure that no user group with accessibility needs finds their needs overlooked or less well covered than other groups. This aims to ensure that sites conforming to WCAG 3 are equivalently accessible to all.
      • From a55eda99dd1ab579424470452c98374e867c159a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeanne Spellman Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 10:33:10 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 08/15] fix typo --- requirements/index.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/requirements/index.html b/requirements/index.html index de83fee1..53d1880a 100644 --- a/requirements/index.html +++ b/requirements/index.html @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@

      Equity

    • How should Conformance satisfy varying or conflicting user needs and address equitable prioritization of guidance?
    • How can equity issues in WCAG3 align with civil legislation?
    • In a W3C guideline technical report, how far can we go to address socio-economic impact on people with disabilities?
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    • How might principles of equity be raised proactively in the design of the conformance model?
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    • How might principles of equity be raised proactively in the design of the Conformance model?
    From e2816c09504b94de358a846d3ea6e5c180f03159 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alastair Campbell Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 17:21:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 09/15] Updates from meeting --- requirements/index.html | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/requirements/index.html b/requirements/index.html index 53d1880a..ef5573d1 100644 --- a/requirements/index.html +++ b/requirements/index.html @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@

    Equity

    The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group wants to commit to improving equity in WCAG3. Exactly what that will encompass and how it can be measured is under exploration and discussion.

    -

    The primary scope for equity in WCAG 3 is to address equity for persons with disabilities. Efforts towards equity must, however, consider the spectrum of human experience. This includes but is not limited to socio-economic status, sexual orientation, religion, race, physical appearance, neurotype, nationality, mental health, language, indigeneity, immigration status, gender, gender identity and gender expression, ethnicity, disability (both visible and invisible), caste, body, or age.

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    The primary scope for equity in WCAG 3 is to address equity for persons with disabilities. Efforts towards equity must, however, consider the spectrum of human experience and how it intersects with disability. This includes but is not limited to socio-economic status, sexual orientation, religion, race, physical appearance, neurotype, nationality, mental health, language, indigeneity, immigration status, gender, gender identity and gender expression, ethnicity, caste, body, or age.

    The term “equity” refers to the ability of people with diverse characteristics to access and understand content and to participate effectively in processes. Web accessibility guidelines seek to increase equity for people with disabilities by ensuring supports are provided for people with different functional needs. Work towards equity considers three layers:

    • Equity in impact: WCAG 3 aims to improve accessibility of web content for users with diverse functional needs. The goal of equity in impact is to ensure that no user group with accessibility needs finds their needs overlooked or less well covered than other groups. This aims to ensure that sites conforming to WCAG 3 are equivalently accessible to all.
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      Equity

    • What should WCAG3 Conformance be for various organization types?
    • How should Conformance satisfy varying or conflicting user needs and address equitable prioritization of guidance?
    • How can equity issues in WCAG3 align with civil legislation?
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    • In a W3C guideline technical report, how far can we go to address socio-economic impact on people with disabilities?
      • +
    • In a W3C technical report, how far can we go to address socio-economic impact on people with disabilities?
    • How might principles of equity be raised proactively in the design of the Conformance model?
    From 36f01238c9eac2e61e4c4ad26970dea7de66fc7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alastair Campbell Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 17:36:34 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 10/15] Put back disability, add CEPC link --- requirements/index.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/requirements/index.html b/requirements/index.html index ef5573d1..65987afd 100644 --- a/requirements/index.html +++ b/requirements/index.html @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@

    Equity

    The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group wants to commit to improving equity in WCAG3. Exactly what that will encompass and how it can be measured is under exploration and discussion.

    -

    The primary scope for equity in WCAG 3 is to address equity for persons with disabilities. Efforts towards equity must, however, consider the spectrum of human experience and how it intersects with disability. This includes but is not limited to socio-economic status, sexual orientation, religion, race, physical appearance, neurotype, nationality, mental health, language, indigeneity, immigration status, gender, gender identity and gender expression, ethnicity, caste, body, or age.

    +

    The primary scope for equity in WCAG 3 is to address equity for persons with disabilities. Efforts towards equity must, however, consider the spectrum of human experience and how it intersects with disability. This includes but is not limited to socio-economic status, sexual orientation, religion, race, physical appearance, neurotype, nationality, mental health, language, indigeneity, immigration status, gender, gender identity and gender expression, ethnicity, disability (both visible and invisible), caste, body, or age. This list draws from the W3C's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (CEPC), and we intend to stay aligned with the CEPC.

    The term “equity” refers to the ability of people with diverse characteristics to access and understand content and to participate effectively in processes. Web accessibility guidelines seek to increase equity for people with disabilities by ensuring supports are provided for people with different functional needs. Work towards equity considers three layers:

    • Equity in impact: WCAG 3 aims to improve accessibility of web content for users with diverse functional needs. The goal of equity in impact is to ensure that no user group with accessibility needs finds their needs overlooked or less well covered than other groups. This aims to ensure that sites conforming to WCAG 3 are equivalently accessible to all.
      • From 18923d11c4e5ebd2a629598635c6f9224302011c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Cooper Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 11:39:35 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 11/15] Add GV ednote https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/equity-post-tpac/results --- requirements/index.html | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/requirements/index.html b/requirements/index.html index 65987afd..86d19500 100644 --- a/requirements/index.html +++ b/requirements/index.html @@ -153,6 +153,7 @@

      Equity

    • How can equity issues in WCAG3 align with civil legislation?
    • In a W3C technical report, how far can we go to address socio-economic impact on people with disabilities?
    • How might principles of equity be raised proactively in the design of the Conformance model?
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    • The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group wants to commit to a) improving equity of all types in our processes and participation and b) improving equity for the full spectrum of users with disabilities in content authored using WCAG3. Exactly what that will encompass and how it can be measured is under exploration and discussion.
    From 9a482bdbd02d736640c80cf0360099321800b579 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Cooper Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 11:46:03 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 12/15] remove exploratory marker for requirements --- requirements/index.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/requirements/index.html b/requirements/index.html index 86d19500..f2a66404 100644 --- a/requirements/index.html +++ b/requirements/index.html @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@

    Maintenance

    Governance: Utilize tools that allow interested parties to predict when issues important to them are being discussed. Maintain a backlog that reflects issues along with their status. -
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    Equity

    The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group wants to commit to improving equity in WCAG3. Exactly what that will encompass and how it can be measured is under exploration and discussion.

    From d9ac09f2609bbf838a3769d2be7943ec36ec57f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Cooper Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 12:30:07 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 13/15] wording from mbgower --- requirements/index.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/requirements/index.html b/requirements/index.html index f2a66404..e37332ad 100644 --- a/requirements/index.html +++ b/requirements/index.html @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@

    Equity

    The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group wants to commit to improving equity in WCAG3. Exactly what that will encompass and how it can be measured is under exploration and discussion.

    -

    The primary scope for equity in WCAG 3 is to address equity for persons with disabilities. Efforts towards equity must, however, consider the spectrum of human experience and how it intersects with disability. This includes but is not limited to socio-economic status, sexual orientation, religion, race, physical appearance, neurotype, nationality, mental health, language, indigeneity, immigration status, gender, gender identity and gender expression, ethnicity, disability (both visible and invisible), caste, body, or age. This list draws from the W3C's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (CEPC), and we intend to stay aligned with the CEPC.

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    The primary scope for equity in WCAG 3 is to address equity for persons with disabilities, including users with more than one disability. WCAG 3.0 is categorizing functional needs, including the intersection between different functional categories, to help achieve this. Efforts towards equity must also consider the spectrum of human experience and how it intersects with disability. This includes but is not limited to socio-economic status, sexual orientation, religion, race, physical appearance, neurotype, nationality, mental health, language, indigeneity, immigration status, gender, gender identity and gender expression, ethnicity, disability (both visible and invisible), caste, body, or age. This list draws from the W3C's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (CEPC), and we intend to stay aligned with the CEPC.

    The term “equity” refers to the ability of people with diverse characteristics to access and understand content and to participate effectively in processes. Web accessibility guidelines seek to increase equity for people with disabilities by ensuring supports are provided for people with different functional needs. Work towards equity considers three layers:

    • Equity in impact: WCAG 3 aims to improve accessibility of web content for users with diverse functional needs. The goal of equity in impact is to ensure that no user group with accessibility needs finds their needs overlooked or less well covered than other groups. This aims to ensure that sites conforming to WCAG 3 are equivalently accessible to all.
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      The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group wants to commit to improving equity in WCAG3. Exactly what that will encompass and how it can be measured is under exploration and discussion.

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      The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group wants to commit to a) improving equity of all types in our processes and participation and b) improving equity for the full spectrum of users with disabilities in content authored using WCAG3. Exactly what that will encompass and how it can be measured is under exploration and discussion.

      The primary scope for equity in WCAG 3 is to address equity for persons with disabilities, including users with more than one disability. WCAG 3.0 is categorizing functional needs, including the intersection between different functional categories, to help achieve this. Efforts towards equity must also consider the spectrum of human experience and how it intersects with disability. This includes but is not limited to socio-economic status, sexual orientation, religion, race, physical appearance, neurotype, nationality, mental health, language, indigeneity, immigration status, gender, gender identity and gender expression, ethnicity, disability (both visible and invisible), caste, body, or age. This list draws from the W3C's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (CEPC), and we intend to stay aligned with the CEPC.

      The term “equity” refers to the ability of people with diverse characteristics to access and understand content and to participate effectively in processes. Web accessibility guidelines seek to increase equity for people with disabilities by ensuring supports are provided for people with different functional needs. Work towards equity considers three layers:

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      Equity

    • How can equity issues in WCAG3 align with civil legislation?
    • In a W3C technical report, how far can we go to address socio-economic impact on people with disabilities?
    • How might principles of equity be raised proactively in the design of the Conformance model?
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    • The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group wants to commit to a) improving equity of all types in our processes and participation and b) improving equity for the full spectrum of users with disabilities in content authored using WCAG3. Exactly what that will encompass and how it can be measured is under exploration and discussion.
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    Equity

    The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group wants to commit to a) improving equity of all types in our processes and participation and b) improving equity for the full spectrum of users with disabilities in content authored using WCAG3. Exactly what that will encompass and how it can be measured is under exploration and discussion.

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    The primary scope for equity in WCAG 3 is to address equity for persons with disabilities, including users with more than one disability. WCAG 3.0 is categorizing functional needs, including the intersection between different functional categories, to help achieve this. Efforts towards equity must also consider the spectrum of human experience and how it intersects with disability. This includes but is not limited to socio-economic status, sexual orientation, religion, race, physical appearance, neurotype, nationality, mental health, language, indigeneity, immigration status, gender, gender identity and gender expression, ethnicity, disability (both visible and invisible), caste, body, or age. This list draws from the W3C's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (CEPC), and we intend to stay aligned with the CEPC.

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    The primary scope for equity in WCAG 3 is to address equity for persons with disabilities, including users with more than one disability. Work is under way in the Framework for Accessible Specification of Technologies (FAST) to categorize functional needs, including the intersection between different functional categories, to help achieve this. Efforts towards equity must also consider the spectrum of human experience and how it intersects with disability. This includes but is not limited to socio-economic status, sexual orientation, religion, race, physical appearance, neurotype, nationality, mental health, language, indigeneity, immigration status, gender, gender identity and gender expression, ethnicity, disability (both visible and invisible), caste, body, or age. This list draws from the W3C's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (CEPC), and we intend to stay aligned with the CEPC.

    The term “equity” refers to the ability of people with diverse characteristics to access and understand content and to participate effectively in processes. Web accessibility guidelines seek to increase equity for people with disabilities by ensuring supports are provided for people with different functional needs. Work towards equity considers three layers:

    • Equity in impact: WCAG 3 aims to improve accessibility of web content for users with diverse functional needs. The goal of equity in impact is to ensure that no user group with accessibility needs finds their needs overlooked or less well covered than other groups. This aims to ensure that sites conforming to WCAG 3 are equivalently accessible to all.