RE: Minutes of Mobile A11y TF teleconference of 31 March 2016

Ø  Touch screen and small screen accessibility?

It’s potentially more than touch screens and screen size – there are other aspects of mobile devices such as vibration, geolocation, accelerometers, lack of physical keyboards, etc. that play in here.  Gaming devices might have some of these as well – so they are not specific to mobile – they may be specific to handheld devices – but of course that term is not optimal as some people won’t be holding them.

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From: David MacDonald [mailto:david100@sympatico.ca]
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 7:14 PM
To: Patrick H. Lauke
Cc: public-mobile-a11y-tf@w3.org
Subject: Re: Minutes of Mobile A11y TF teleconference of 31 March 2016

We're in the process of exploring what WCAG.NEXT will look like... one option is not having extensions, and just going to the next version of WCAG, which would make the problem go away.

Otherwise what would you call this extension, if you could "name that child"?
Touch screen and small screen accessibility?

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 3:49 AM, Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk<mailto:redux@splintered.co.uk>> wrote:


On 01/04/2016 01:05, David MacDonald wrote:
Mobile seems to be the buzz these days, and the general public has not
advanced past ... If we offer a course in Mobile accessibility, and
another course in Pointer events accessibility, or touch events
accessibility. I think the mobile a11y course will triple the attendance.

Well, you wouldn't market a course just on "Touch events". And even if you wanted to, you'd call it something a bit more general such as "Making content and applications on touchscreen devices accessible".
In the Microsoft Event this week the keynote the statement was "we are
mobile first, meaning users should be able to access their work across
all platforms and technologies, that's mobile computing, the user is
mobile"

But I'm fine with dumping the word mobile, if it interferes with our
mission, but we should do so after consulting stakeholders.

"Mobile" as a marketing buzzword is fine. "Mobile" as a categorisation for technologies/problems/recommendations which are not exclusive to smartphones/tablets is what I take issue with. That is all.


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