- From: Steve Lee <stevelee@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 09:23:52 +0100
- To: public-cognitive-a11y-tf@w3.org
There was a suggestion that "symbol libraries" could be used as an alternative to Symbols Sets. Personally I think Symbols Set is the better understood term, at least in the AAC domain. Steve On 01/04/2020 18:33, Steve Lee wrote: > The W3C are working on accessibility guidelines for Virtual Reality (XR) > [1] > > In section 4.4 on "Immersive personalisation" it states > > > "Support Symbol sets so they can be used to communicate and layered > over objects and items to convey affordances or other needed information > in way that can be understood according to user preference." > > Now someone has queried the use of Symbols (via a Github Issue) > > > "I'm wonder if this is really representative of the need and > solution. When I read "symbol sets" I think unicode. When I think of > AAC, I think of pictures, and they're not the same. > > Can we be less specific" > > I responded[3] saying in general that is the correct term for Cognitive > accessibility AAC use and what we use here and in personalisation. I > also mentioned this is complicated as there are different uses of > several overlapping terms. > > What do people think? > > Steve > > 1: https://www.w3.org/TR/xaur > 2: https://www.w3.org/TR/xaur/#immersive-personalisation > 3: https://github.com/w3c/apa/issues/69#issuecomment-607376676 >
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