RE: Call for Consensus (CfC): Device Orientation Ac

Hi Dr Keith, all,

 

Thanks for your suggestions. We have a convention that we can make editorial changes as part of the CfC, and I think that your changes are good, and would count as editorial changes. I think we should accept them – though with a slight adjustment to the last one, as follows.

 

The sentiment of your last suggested change – that the user should be able to use some other means, like a button, to access the function – is of course right. However, this is in the section of the advice that is about browser (or, more likely, OS) features. However, it would be up to the web app to provide such an alternative for the user to use, and the simplest way for it to do that would be for there to be such a button in the UI all along. So I would tweak the wording slightly, to something like 'and provide the input via an appropriate accessible means, such as a button'.

 

Thus my vote is +1 to the comment, with the editorial changes above included (thanks again for your input).

 

Best regards,

 

 

Matthew

 

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From: Keith Newton <newtonsgroove2@gmail.com> 
Sent: 24 February 2024 20:11
To: Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>
Cc: public-apa-admin@w3.org
Subject: Re: Call for Consensus (CfC): Device Orientation Ac

 

My comments on the document are as follows:

1.  " It's important that users can undo any accidental input".  I would change to " It's ESSENTIAL that users can undo any accidental input"

2. "It's important that the user is able to turn off the use of gesture or
motion-based input" I would change to "It's IMPORTANT that the user is able to DISABLE the use of gesture or
motion-based input AND HAVE THE ABILITY TO ASSIGN THE FUNCTION OF THE MOTION-BASED INPUT TO A BUTTON OR [OTHER]"


Dr. Keith



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On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 1:36 PM Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net <mailto:janina@rednote.net> > wrote:

Colleagues:

This is a Call for Consensus (CfC) to the Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Working Group testing for agreement on an Accessibility Considerations addition to the Device and Sensors Working Group's Device Orientation API. The candidate AC section is attached to this email. The API is specified here:

https://www.w3.org/TR/orientation-event/


The review request for this specification is logged here:

https://github.com/w3c/a11y-request/issues/71 <https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=73a19389-2c3aaa96-73a018c6-000babdfecba-58f6056357720363&q=1&e=52da98ad-445e-42ac-a409-bc0a7365b985&u=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fw3c%2Fa11y-request%2Fissues%2F71> 

*** Action to Take ***

This CfC is now open for objection, comment, as well as statements of support via email. Silence will be interpreted as support, though messages of support are certainly welcome.

If you object to this proposed action, or have comments concerning this proposal, please respond by replying on list to this message no later than 23:59 (Midnight) Boston Time, Wednesday 28 February.

NOTE: This Call for Consensus is being conducted in accordance with the APA Decision Policy published at: http://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/decision-policy


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