Re: URGENT: title and short name for ER WG working draft

Al,
How would this affect UA?

Jon


At 11:19 AM 4/21/00 -0500, Al Gilman wrote:
>I have a political problem with 'repair' vs. 'implementation.'
>
>The UA group has been developing an allergy to assigning "repair" functions
>to the user agent.  On the other hand, my analysis suggests that there is a
>sliding scale of how much 'deconstruction' is involved before building an
>appropriate view in the 'implementation' of the "transforms gracefully"
>concept.
>
>So if the UA group won't touch it if it's 'repair' I am concerned with
>labeling these techniques 'repair.'
>
>I will have to spin the application of the same methods as "augmented
>analysis" prior to "view building."
>
>If we can call them "Analysis and Reconstruction" instead of Analysis and
>Repair and Jon is comfortable that the UA [including the team of commodity
>browser and AT without allocating the functions for the moment] may do some
>additional analysis and reconstruction on the way to the realized view(s)
>then we are cool all around.
>
>Oops.  I just realized that I slipped back into VHDL compiler lingo and
>substituted 'analysis' for 'evaluation.'  Actually that is the component
>function.  The evaluation and repair end-to-end jobs are done by (1)
>analysis and (2) reconstruction techniques that are applied in that order
>in both scenarios with minor variations in how each phase is done.
>
>Cute version:
>
>Symbol: ART2
>
>Title:  Analysis and Reconstruction Techniques for Assessment and Repair
>Tools.
>
>Al
>
>
>
>At 10:18 AM 2000-04-21 -0400, Wendy A Chisholm wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >In trying to get the ERT published as a public working draft as issue has
> >come up with the title and the short name.
> >
> >I had proposed that the short name (the unique URI identifier) for this
> >document be "ERT" as that is what we have been calling it within the
> >group.  However, other W3C folks felt that the short name needs to reflect
> >the title of the document.
> >
> >Currently, the title is, "Techniques For Evaluation And Implementation Of
> >Web Content Accessibility Guidelines"  which is a real mouthful...
> >
> >The proposal is that we change the title to something along the lines of:
> >main title: "Techniques for Evaluation and Repair Tools"
> >subtitle: "for conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines"
> >
> >thoughts? if we get this settled today it can still be published as a
> >public working draft this evening otherwise we wait until next week.
> >
> >thanks,
> >--wendy
> >--
> >wendy a chisholm
> >world wide web consortium
> >web accessibility initiative
> >madison, wi usa
> >tel: +1 608 663 6346
> >/--
> >

Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
Chair, W3C WAI User Agent Working Group
Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services
College of Applied Life Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
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Received on Monday, 24 April 2000 09:18:23 UTC