Re: [w3c-wai-pf] <none>

At 04:45 AM 10/31/2004, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>Presumably writing actual techniques for ATAG is a helpful thing to 
>do...whaddaya reckon?

What I reckon is that using/demonstrating actual techniques, rather than 
merely writing them is even more helpful, thus my call to this particular 
panoply of doers to do so with the instant document. If we can dance this 
dance it could well enhance our credibility in re our guideline songs' 
siren claims. When the document recommends a certain font, it should 
demonstrate the "why" through exemplification: show, don't just tell.

I don't know how to make the "expansion" of text (to reveal a clear/simple 
alternative) seamless and easily achieved but I know I see it frequently in 
things like the "what's this" implementation in lots of applications - or 
even the tool tip phenomenon.

Practically no WAI documents do any of this and if it is desirable to 
recommend it's even more important to institute - hence the "eat our own 
dog food" urge that so often gets "acceptance" without implementation.

I recommend starting with Lisa's piece and have actually done a few little 
things therein, but my programming skills are somewhere between rusty and 
non-existent so I'm calling for help. And hoping that it might spread to 
many other "documents".

Partly because Bob Regan is aggressive within MacroMedia and that their 
DreamWeaver shows a little promise, I am optimistic that tools like it will 
incorporate edge-pushing things like structure-extracting tools (in ATAG it 
might be handy to separately isolate the "rationales" as a group, for one 
example). In my long-ago incarnation as an assembly-language snob I 
disdained any high level languages but to pretend that I could use a text 
editor to achieve what is fairly trivial using something like XML Spy is 
untenable.

If we can get "effects" that further our accessibility goals and said 
effects can be fairly trivially achieved by some tool will hasten the 
appearance of ATAG-compliant systems and these in turn will become 
inclusive of User Agents that recursively include the generation of 
content, especially including a means by which folks who used to be 
considered passive audiences will become annotators/indexers/creators 
rather than empty vessels to be filled by the superior knowledge of elite 
authors.



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