Re: R24. End user should be able to use speech in a hands-free mode

I also think we should not make it mandatory to use speech in
hands-free mode if the user agent is not enabled for hands-free mode.
Many traditional desktop web browsers are not built for hands-free
usage and it doesn't make sense to me that one particular web page
which may use speech input can claim to be hands-free when the rest of
the browser (i.e. the browser chrome, menus, other user interface
elements) aren't hands-free.

Perhaps the requirement should be "user agents with a hands-free mode
should be able to support speech-input in hands-free mode as well".

Cheers
Satish



On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi> wrote:
> R24 is not quite unclear, IMO. The requirement and explanation seem to
> talk about a bit different things.
> Yes, I think end user should be able to use speech in a hands-free
> mode, but "to speech-enable every aspect of a web application"?
> Not so sure. There are applications which will be difficult to fully
> speech-enable. For example some drawing app, which needs to recognize
> touch/mouse pressure. Sure, user could say, "draw a pixel using
> pressure x to (1, 1), and then a pixel using pressure y to (2, 2)", but
> that wouldn't be quite practical.
>
> So, I'd say keep R24 (especially with wording "should" and not "must"),
> but clarify the explanation somehow.
>
> -Olli
>
>
> On 11/22/2010 10:08 AM, Dan Burnett wrote:
>>
>> Group,
>>
>> This is the next of the requirements to discuss and prioritize based on
>> our ranking approach [1].
>>
>> This email is the beginning of a thread for questions, discussion, and
>> opinions regarding our first draft of Requirement 24 [2].
>>
>> Please discuss via email as we agreed at the Lyon f2f meeting.
>> Outstanding points of contention will be discussed live at an upcoming
>> teleconference.
>>
>> -- dan
>>
>> [1]
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-htmlspeech/2010Oct/0024.html
>> [2]
>>
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-htmlspeech/2010Oct/att-0001/speech.html#r24
>>
>>
>>
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