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RE: Best Practices document - not best practices

From: Tom Worthington <Tom.Worthington@tomw.net.au>
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 09:48:11 +1000
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At 06:58 PM 8/2/2005, Nicolas Combelles wrote:
>... I think we should try to isolate the different issues to build 
>specific topics with shortest mails. ...

Yes. I have my mail client set to not download a message by default of more 
than 30kbytes. So much of this discussion has passed me by.

>Possible topics I see ... Access and communication  ... Usability ... 
>Context of use ... Cases where a specific mobile version is relevant. ...

These are good topics. To make the discussion more concrete, consider the 
case of Sahana; a disaster management system built for the 2004 Asian 
Tsunami and now being redesigned as an open source humanitarian project 
<http://www.reliefsource.org/foss/index.php/Sahana>. Such a system needs to 
work with limited equipment and bandwidth, with people speaking different 
languages.

I have suggested using W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines to make 
the system more flexible 
<http://www.reliefsource.org/foss/index.php/Dev:UI>. But what other 
practices could be suggested?



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