Technique titles (was Re: TSD TF: Agenda for teleconference on Tuesday 11 December 2007)

Hi Tim,


At 15:59 11/12/2007, Tim Boland wrote:
>(...) In addition, I think that the techniques metadata item should 
>include some reference to the title of the referenced 
>technique?  Just including a reference to the number of the 
>technique, in the absence of any other information, doesn't indicate 
>whether the technique mapping is correct (a number yields no useful 
>semantic information, it may be incorrect - typed wrong -, and if 
>the numbers change, the mapping will be out of sync).

I agree that the current system is not very user friendly. Looking 
back at the minutes from December last year (when we decided on how 
to reference techniques), it seems to be something we didn't discuss.
We can keep the titles of the technique in the techComment element 
when migrating test cases from BenToWeb to the Task Force.

For the future I would like to see something that avoids the 
duplication of technique/failure URLs of the above solution. For 
example, we could add a title attribute to the technique element, or 
we could allow text strings (possibly with a bit of markup) inside 
the technique element.

Example of the first proposal:
   <technique id="F8" 
xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20070517/#F8" 
title="Failure of SC 1.2.1 due to captions omitting some dialogue or 
important sound effects" />

Example of the second proposal:
   <technique id="F8" 
xlink:href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20070517/#F8">Failure 
of <html:acronym>SC</html:acronym> 1.2.1 due to captions 
omitting some dialogue or important sound effects</technique>

(I have escaped the less-than characters because some mail clients 
interpret the HTML markup as part of the markup of the message 
instead of content inside the message.)

I anyone has a better idea, please comment on the list, because the 
next teleconference isn't until 8 January next year.

Best regards,

Christophe




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