RE: Is "Symbols" the correct word when talking about inclusion.

You are right Steve .... Symbol libraries are what graphic designers and computer scientists might have and AAC users have symbol sets

Best wishes
E.A. 

Mrs E.A. Draffan
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Lee [mailto:stevelee@w3.org] 
Sent: 02 April 2020 09:24
To: public-cognitive-a11y-tf@w3.org
Subject: Re: Is "Symbols" the correct word when talking about inclusion.

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
> 
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