RE: SC 3.1.4 edits

3.            Although I thought that "first in a delivery unit" was
unambiguous, there seems to be confusion about the meaning of "first" in "
<http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Providing_the_abbreviation_
immediately_following_the_first_use_of_the_expanded_form_within_the_delivery
_unit> Providing the abbreviation immediately following the first use of the
expanded form within the delivery unit". Does anyone have any suggestions
for how to make this clearer?

 

 

We may be looking at changing 'delivery unit' to 'authored unit'.   Then the
first occurrence would be in the first part of a multipart document.  That
should help with some of the ambiguity.   Unless you want it to be each
piece - but that makes it hard to figure if the same doc is divided up later
- or on the fly for small device delivery like cell phones or PDAs.  

 


Gregg

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Director - Trace R & D Center 
University of Wisconsin-Madison 
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From: public-wcag-teamb-request@w3.org
[mailto:public-wcag-teamb-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Loretta Guarino Reid
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 6:21 PM
To: public-wcag-teamb@w3.org
Subject: SC 3.1.4 edits

I've been editing SC 3.1.4 and its techniques in response to comments in the
surveys. There were a few non-editorial issues I wanted to bring up:

1.      There seems to be some sentiment that "
<http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Using_the_title_attribute_t
o_provide_explanations_of_words_or_phrases> Using the title attribute to
provide explanations of words or phrases" (formerly "Supplemental Meaning
Cues") is not a sufficient technique. Should it be moved to Advisory?

2.      There are requests for discussion of when to use <abbr> and when to
use <acronym>. Does anyone know the answer? Is this a technology issue? Is
it a language issue that should refer to the general technique "
<http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Providing_the_expansion_or_
explanation_of_an_abbreviation> Providing the expansion or explanation of an
abbreviation"?

3.      Although I thought that "first in a delivery unit" was unambiguous,
there seems to be confusion about the meaning of "first" in "
<http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Providing_the_abbreviation_
immediately_following_the_first_use_of_the_expanded_form_within_the_delivery
_unit> Providing the abbreviation immediately following the first use of the
expanded form within the delivery unit". Does anyone have any suggestions
for how to make this clearer?

4.      There are lots of comments and questions on the general technique  "
<http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Providing_the_expansion_or_
explanation_of_an_abbreviation> Providing the expansion or explanation of an
abbreviation". Christophe, would you be willing to try to clarify what sorts
of information should be provided for different classes of abbreviations?

Loretta Guarino Reid

lguarino@adobe.com

Adobe Systems, Acrobat Engineering