Diversity in web use - title

Dear EO editors

I have been helping to edit the Wiki page
http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/wiki/Web_Accessibility_Basics

This provides a 'taster' of the content of EOWG material. In our Section 2
of How people use the web we want to reference  to "Diversity of web users"
and "Diversity in web use".

Various of the group members have commented that it is difficult to
intuitively understand the differences between these two headings, or that
in skim reading, when they are on screen close together they seem to be
identical.

In my most recent edit I have separated them into two numbered paragraphs.
In order to make it clear that the second one is about technologies etc I
have named it:

   - 2.3 Understanding assistive technologies, tools and
strategies<http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/wiki/Web_Accessibility_Basics#Understanding_assistive_technologies.2C_tools_and_strategies>

 I would like to propose that a similar change is made to the title
'Diversity in web use' in order to make it clear to all that it leads to a
section about technologies and tools etc., and is distinct from the tab
'Diversity of web users'
Regards
Suzette


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: suzette keith <suzette.skeith@gmail.com>
Date: 2 May 2012 17:23
Subject: Re: update to wiki on web accessibility basics
To: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>, "EOWG (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>


Hi all
I have updated section 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 of  the webed wiki

> * http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/wiki/Web_Accessibility_Basics
>

This wiki material makes use of information from the 'how people with
disabilities use the web suite' to develop an easy introduction for
developers to this material.

There was some confusion as to the intuitive meanings of diversity OF web
users and diversity IN web use so I have created two distinct subsections
to clarify that one is about  disabilities and the other is about tools and
strategies.

I may not be available on Fridays telcon, so I would like you to consider
two issues:
I would like the disabilities section (2.1)  to address the common
misconception that being blind is the only disability affecting web use.
Should this be made more explicit?

 Another common misconception (I think) is to become locked into a medical
model of causes and symptoms. I would suggest that the web developer just
needs to know about the consequences that affect web accessibility. Should
there be an explicit reference to the social model - or just the functional
effects in what I would like to call  the 'engineering model'.

I will also contact the EO editors to see if there is time to change the
heading titles of 'diversity in web use' into something more intuitively
leads to tools and techniques.

Regards
Suzette