Re: new updated roadmap available

Hi Arun,

the point you are making is very interesting and very valid.
o we should surely mentionned it somewhere in the document, perhaps a 
"scope" subsection in the challenges part to explain that.
let's discuss that on monday.

Best
Stephane

Arun Kumar a écrit :
> Hi Steph and all,
> 
>>> Lastly, we forgot ot include issues of disabled users like deaf, dum or
>>> blind people
> 
>> that's a good point. i would like to propose that from the scope
>> document we exclude this case which is not specific to developing
>> countries. This largely covered by the Web Accessibility Initiative.
>> comments ?
> 
> We are indeed addressing issues for users who are disabled in some way by
> being in a developing country. The disablement here includes illiteracy (as
> Steph specifically pointed out), lack of knowledge of English or other
> international languages needed to access Web as it exists today (requiring
> multilingual support), low income levels preventing access to Internet/Web.
> As can be seen, the implicit criteria for the group (i believe) is to
> include those issues which are relevant for developing countries.
> 
> I partially agree with Steph, that areas such as for visually impaired,
> hearing impaired and speech impaired people are more generally applicable
> and not specific to developing countries. In my view, the challenges to be
> overcome by these users in developing countries are different than those
> faced by similar users in developed countries and the current solutions do
> not take this into account.
> 
> For instance, for the visually impaired a standard solution used are screen
> reading software such as JAWS or browsers with speech based interfaces. But
> with illiteracy, language and affordability issues, these solutions do not
> work well for visually impaired in developing countries. As a group, we
> might decide not to address this in our charter in the first go but I feel
> we need to be aware of some of these challenges to take up later or to
> sensitize the Web Accessibility initiative with these issues that may not
> be there in their current purview.
> 
> 
> thanks and regards
> Arun Kumar
> Research Staff Member,
> IBM India Research Laboratory,
> 4, Block - C, Institutional Area, Vasant Kunj,
> New Delhi - 110 070, India,
> Email: kkarun@in.ibm.com
> 
> World Wide Telecom Web (aka Spoken Web) :
> http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/arun_kumar.WWTW.html
> 
> 
> 
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> Hi Adesina,
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>> Also, to be able to have a good roadmap, I think we should go back to
>> what is our original aim which I suppose is guaranting users' experience
>> for mobile web in developing countries. So I presume that our focus
>> shoould on R&D to tackle challenges against users' experience.
> 
> humm, no, our aim has never been around user experience on mobile web.
> Our aim is to promote interaction with Web content on mobile phones in
> the delivery of social-oriented services. During last conference call,
> there was a general agreement around what is the scope of this document
> and its audience. This is captured in  the scope and audience section
> now. So in my view, we want to put in hte doc:
> - what's possible today
> - what are major challenges that might impact the success of a mobile
> delivery of information or applications
> - what are the different technologies existing today to deliver content
> and apps and there respectives strenght/weaknesses and potential R&D
> direction to follow
> 
> 
>> Lastly, we forgot ot include issues of disabled users like deaf, dum or
>> blind people
> that's a good point. i would like to propose that from the scope
> document we exclude this case which is not specific to developing
> countries. This largely covered by the Web Accessibility Initiative.
> comments ?
> 
> Stephane
>> Adesina
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>> 2009/5/28 Stephane Boyera <boyera@w3.org <?mailto:boyera@w3.org,>>
>>
>>     Dear All,
>>
>>     as promised, i worked a the new instance of the roadmap i presented
>>     during last call.
>>     I tried to integrate the resolution and discussions we had last week.
>>     For those who were on the call during the may 18 call, please let em
>>     know if i forgot some stuff.
>>
>>     The new version is at
>>     http://www.w3.org/2008/MW4D/wiki/roadmapv2,
>>
>>     i prefered to create a plain new uri. i put a deprecated flag on the
>>     previous one (>http://www.w3.org/2008/MW4D/wiki/roadmap )
>>     and link the new one from the wiki MW4D home
>>     (http://www.w3.org/2008/MW4D/wiki/MW4D ) and the Mw4D home
>>     (ressource section) http://www.w3.org/2008/MW4D/
>>
>>     all comments are welcome, and we will continue discussion during
>>     next call (June 8)
>>
>>     Cheers
>>     Stephane
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