Re: BP THEMATIC_CONSISTENCY and WCAG

I wrote the very first draft of 'one web' in the early days of MWI  
and that along with thematic consistency still stimulate debate.  
Isn't this already covered somewhere?

Cheers
Paul

On 19 Sep 2007, at 20:00, Al Gilman wrote:

> This is one of those areas where WCAG is aware of the problem but  
> UWA is likely
> closer to having solutions.  Involves the 'adaptation' TF in BPWG  
> IMHO.
> Pardon the codes.
>
> I will try to respond to the task force in more detail with related  
> concepts such
> as landmark support in the Role attribute and WAI-ARIA.
>
> But graceful recovery is an underdeveloped topic at W3C as the  
> rebels in the
> HTML WG are quite keen to let us know.
>
> Al
>
> At 11:57 AM +0200 17 09 2007, Shadi Abou-Zahra wrote:
>> Hi Alan,
>>
>> As I'm missing the background, I'm not really sure what you are  
>> trying to do. Is your intention to explain how the Mobile Web Best  
>> Practices relate to the requirements of people with disabilities  
>> on the Web? In this case it may be better to avoid direct  
>> comparison to WCAG 1.0 as we hope it will be superseded in due  
>> course. In the specific example below you could further highlight  
>> the benefit of "One Web" and the impact of creating separate pages  
>> for content authors but also for end-users rather than citing CP  
>> 11.4 (which is too often used as an excuse).
>>
>> Anyway, I think this is very interesting and important work. I've  
>> CC'ed the WAI Coordination Group to raise it to their attention.  
>> Hopefully a WAI WG can allocate some time to review a first  
>> Working Draft of this work rather than look at the individual bits  
>> piece by piece.
>>
>> Thank you for continuing to promote accessibility in the MWI!
>>
>> Regards,
>>   Shadi
>>
>>
>> Alan Chuter wrote:
>>> I've created a working copy to allow quick updates [1], prior to  
>>> incorporation in the editor's draft.
>>>
>>> As the most obvious part to start at is the beginning, I've begin  
>>> by adding THEMATIC_CONSISTENCY [3]. My first attempt isn't very  
>>> inspired as there does seem to be a relationship except with 11.4  
>>> [2] on alternative pages. How does THEMATIC_CONSISTENCY assist  
>>> users with disabilities? Comments and more ideas please.
>>>
>>> [cite]
>>> This BP encourages content providers to make content accessible  
>>> to as wide a range of devices and users as possible. It  
>>> contemplates the use of alternative pages only as a last resort.  
>>> In this respect it relates to WCAG 1.0 checkpoint 11.4, "If,  
>>> after best efforts, you cannot create an accessible  page,  
>>> provide a link to an alternative page that uses W3C technologies,  
>>> is accessible, has equivalent  information (or functionality),  
>>> and is updated as often as the inaccessible (original) page.  
>>> [Priority 1]." In MWBP the alternative page or URI is to provide  
>>> for device limitations while in WCAG it is to provide for user  
>>> limitations.
>>> Not complying with this best practice but complying with WCAG  
>>> checkpoint 11.4 will be very difficult as each new device- 
>>> specific version will require 2n versions of the content.
>>> [end cite]
>>>
>>> [1] http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dftkhw2k_19gcvjvh
>>> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/#tech-alt-pages
>>> [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/#THEMATIC_CONSISTENCY
>>>
>>
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