Web Accessibility Mobile Web Overlap Overview document

Regarding a couple of the issues mentioned on the agenda for today's
call [1], under "2. MWBP-WCAG Relationship documents".

c. How are the section breaks and headings?
The [Resources | Mapping the Overlap] should perhaps go under the "W3C
Guidelines Overlap" heading, as it's specific to it. As there's a
"Doing Both" section there should also be sections for the other
strategies (WCAG 2.0 and 1.0 from MWBP and vie versa).

e. What about using "mobile phones" which is more colloquial usage,
verses "mobile devices" which is more broad?
I think the idea is that there is a wide range of mobile devices
including PDAs, embedded devices, hybrid devices, portable game
consoles. Maybe it would be good to put something like "Mobile devices
such as phones, PDAs, etc" at the beginning of the document. This is
like the "browser" v. "user agent" debate.

g. What are the pros and cons of saying "usable with mobile phones"?
It isn't about usability I think. It is accessibility, but the
barriers are to the device and the network, rather than the person. On
the other hand I agree that it would be confusing to use the word
accessible. Other terms are mobile-aware and MobileOK (although the
latter is specific to a proposed label. Perhaps "suitable for the
mobile context".

I don't see any problem publishing it as a working draft, to invite feedback.

regards,

Alan





I don't know whether there's any need to

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-eo/2007OctDec/0190.html

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