Re: Prompt vs Ask

Hi Gregory,

This actually concerns AU, not ER.

Since as you explain, an authoring tool "should allow you to either keep it or
discard it" do you really want the word "require" in the definition used by
AU?  That's what AU has got now.   

Len

At 12:13 AM 10/23/99 -0400, Gregory J. Rosmaita wrote:
>aloha, len & chris!
>
>i like len's addition to the AU definition of "prompt", so that, in the ERT
>glossary, it would read something like:
>
>quote
>Prompts are requests for user input, either information  or a decision.
Prompts
>require author response. Prompts can be implemented in various ways, e.g.
>fields in a form, commands, or "wizard" style dialog boxes.  Any responses
they
>require need not be immediate.  The user should be able to postpone responses
>unquote
>
>as for the use of the word require, we are helping Chris draft a techniques
>document for the detection and correction of inaccessible and invalid markup,
>so we need to be as detailed and explicit as we can be, whilst leaving the
>ultimate decision to the author...  some things, such as ALT text, titles,
>class definitions and naming, and the placement of structural markup -- to
name
>but a few -- _require_ authorial input, so it is well within our scope to
>_require_ input from the author where appropriate and necessary...
>
>an authoring tool, on the other hand, should allow you to input markup
that it
>doesn't recognize, and -- after alerting you that the markup isn't defined in
>the DTD defined for the document -- should allow you to either keep it or
>discard it, but an ER tool _has_ to be able to force the user to "put up or
>shut up" where use of certain markup is known to decrease the
accessibility of
>the content being evaluated...
>
>and as for whether the ERT needs to hyperlink each instance of the word
>"Prompt" to the definition in the glossary, i think that this could
>(mercifully) be avoided if a strong and obvious reference (and link) to the
>definition is made in the introduction...
>
>gregory.
>
>
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Received on Monday, 25 October 1999 11:43:01 UTC