Re: Support as an SC prefix?

Gregg, what do you think?

Adding the word "Support"



On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 8:36 AM, <alands289@gmail.com> wrote:

> +1
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> Great modification that communicates the intent much better
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> Alan Smith
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> *From: *Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
> *Sent: *Wednesday, March 8, 2017 8:21 AM
> *To: *WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> *Subject: *Support as an SC prefix?
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> Hi everyone,
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> There is an interesting point raised on github for the SCs which are aimed
> at authors enabling something without (necessarily) adding on-screen
> widgets:
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> https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/issues/159#issuecomment-285020097
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> “Maybe the use of the "Support" prefix would be a useful standard to set
> for the SC titles if an on-screen widget is not required, so that in this
> case it would be "Support Reflow to Single Column", just as we have
> "Support Personalization".
> This would also suggest a rename of 1.4.13 to "Support Printing", for
> example.”
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> It would be an alternative to the “mechanism is available” language,
> hopefully leading people away from assuming there would be on-screen
> widgets.
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> If that were taking on, I think it would lead to:
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>    - Support linearization (Or ‘Support reflow to single column’)
>    - Support printing (Or ‘Support adaptations when printing’ might be
>    more accurate.)
>    - Support adapting text
>    - Support extra symbols.
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> And possibly others from COGA that didn’t make it to the FPWD.
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> So two questions:
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>    1. Do you think this approach is helpful? And if so,
>    2. Is “support” the right prefix?
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> Kind regards,
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> -Alastair
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