Thread Subject: Re: Grouping of thecurrent 28software/web standards

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From: Andi Snow-Weaver
Date: Wed, Oct 11 2006 3:05 PM

Don Barrett wrote:

>Please let's not get caught up in the intellectual machinations of how to
break the 28 standards into groups. The major purpose for doing this is
only manageability in discussion; we are not forming new categories as I
understand things. Whether we use Peter's, Richard's, Jim's, Jonathan's,
doesn't matter so much as just picking some artificial scheme and using it
to make our task manageable.

Am I missing something?

<end of Don's comments>

Don,

You are correct. The purpose of the grouping is simply to facilitate our
discussion of the existing provisions. I propose that we group them for our
discussion as Jim Thatcher last suggested [1].

To answer Jim's question about a list of standards, the JTC-1 Special
Working Group on Accessibility has just completed an inventory of standards
- both accessibility standards and standards that probably should include
accessibility provisions. It is a spreadsheet and is quite extensive. You
can download it at [2].

I would ask you all to hold off on getting into detailed discussions on the
provisions for a few more days. Before this list was available, I was
communicating with some early subcommittee members via a distribution list.
I have urged them all to subscribe to this list as I will stop using the
distribution list as of Monday, October 16th. So I would like to wait until
next week before we get into any more technical discussions to give them
all a chance to subscribe.

[1] http://teitac.org/mailarchives/mail_message.php?id=108&listid=3
[2] http://www.jtc1access.org/documents/swga_211.zip

Andi

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