Re: CfP Accessible Way-Finding using Web Technologies Comments

Hi Simon and all,

In response (hopefully quick) to your email, I included an objectives
section in the page and also created a suggested new version of the scope
(which obsiously does not include the questions).
In the meeting we can see which ones to use and how.

Regards,
Christos.
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Dr. Christos Kouroupetroglou
Web Accessibility Research & Engineering
Website: http://aetos.it.teithe.gr/~kourou/
Blog: http://a11y2020.wordpress.com/


2014-08-27 10:22 GMT+03:00 Simon Harper <simon.harper@manchester.ac.uk>:

> Hi everyone, so my comments for this CfP.
>
> In general I like it - new title is good (Accessible Way-Finding using Web
> Technologies)
>
> Invitation, Introduction, Background, Dates, Submission, Review,
> Copyright, Chairs, SC all look fine to me.
>
> The only thing I think needs some changes are the 'Scope and Reseach
> Questions'. First I don't like to exclude just in case we get something
> good; indeed, the CfP is supposed to give a favour of what we're looking
> for and a loose scope IMO. So I don't like:
>
> NOTE: The scope of the symposium does NOT include:
> Discussions about new indoor and outdoor positioning technologies in
> general
> Discussions about the effectiveness, precision or interoperability of
> positioning and navigation systems in general.
> Discussions about dynamic information integration in way-finding and
> navigation systems that does not relate to accessibility.
>
> Next when I look back at all the other Symposia at
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/
>
> They don't have a big 'Scope and Reseach Questions' section but have a
> tight 'objectives' section which starts:
>
> 'The objectives of this symposium are to' then there are probably the
> between 8-10 statements.
>
> for example
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2013/e-learning/#objectives
>
> I think if we could really thing about what the objectives are we would be
> able to do this pretty fast.
>
> In fact some (most) already exist for instance from the current call
>
> 'Are current way-finding systems accessible for people with disabilities?
> What are the main challenges and can web technologies help to address them?'
>
> could be re-written as
>
> Uncover the main challenges of accessible way-finding so as to understand
> how web technologies can help address them?
>
> so we might have our first
>
> The objectives of this symposium are to:
>         * Uncover the main challenges of accessible way-finding so as to
> understand how web technologies can help address them?
>
> Just my thoughts!
>
>
> Cheers
> Si.
>
>
>
>
> On 27/08/2014 07:56, Simon Harper wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> the CfP for Accessible Way-Finding using Web Technologies is available
>> comments
>>
>> https://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/wiki/Accessibility_and_way-
>> finding,_navigation_and_exploration_systems
>>
>> Could you skim it and send comments in time for today meeting please.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Si.
>>
>>
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