Re: Lack of showing amendments

Excellent. I'm sorry it was so hard to find the right versions, and
I'm glad that you have them now.

Loretta

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Bristol and disabled archery
<bristolanddisabledarchery@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Loretta,
>
> I've found them now, many thanks.
>
> I suppose it's my own silly fault for attempting to scan read when I'm
> dyslexic that I missed them.
>
> Or maybe my brain didn't register that 'diff-marked' meant 'showing the
> differences'.
>
> Or maybe it's because when WAIG2 was out for public consultation the
> diff-marked version was the primary/only link and hence when these didn't
> open as diff-marked I assumed that there wasn't a diff-marked version.
>
> Never mind, I have them now and can check them and pay special heed to the
> sections that affect me personally (as opposed to accessibility as a whole).
>
> Sheena
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Loretta Guarino Reid [mailto:lorettaguarino@google.com]
> Sent: 30 July 2010 22:42
> To: Sheena McCullagh
> Cc: public-comments-wcag20@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Lack of showing amendments
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Sheena McCullagh
> <sheena.mccullagh@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> Many thanks for this, but I'm now more confused.  When you follow the
> links
>> from http://www.w3.org/WAI/ and http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/comments/ and
>> http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8851 they don't take you through to the
>> diff marked versions, but to the 8 July versions which aren't diff marked.
>
> Correct. The normative versions are not diff-marked. However, if you
> open the documents at the links in the announcement, just before the
> Abstract is a section that says
>
> "This document is also available in these non-normative formats:
>
>    * Single file version
>    * Single file diff-marked version showing revisions since 11
> December 2008, and
>    * Alternate Versions of Understanding WCAG 2.0, "
>
> The second link will take you to a version of the document that
> contains the diff-markup. Those are the links listed in my previous
> message.
>
> Loretta
>
>>
>> In fact I couldn't find a link on the web site to the diff marked versions
>> at all.
>>
>> I note the diff marked versions are dated as June 2010, whereas the ones
>> without the diff marks are dated 8 July.
>>
>> It was these latter ones, which are the ones comment has been invited on
> via
>> the web site, which I was suggesting ought to be diff marked, not the ones
>> you sent me links for and which I couldn't find on the web site.
>>
>> Hence my original suggestion still stands.
>>
>> Sheena
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Loretta Guarino Reid [mailto:lorettaguarino@google.com]
>> Sent: 30 July 2010 21:57
>> To: sheena.mccullagh@blueyonder.co.uk
>> Cc: public-comments-wcag20@w3.org
>> Subject: Re: Lack of showing amendments
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:56 AM,  <sheena.mccullagh@blueyonder.co.uk>
> wrote:
>>>
>>> Name: Sheena McCullagh
>>> Email: sheena.mccullagh@blueyonder.co.uk
>>> Affiliation: Member of the public
>>> Document: W2
>>> Item Number: (none selected)
>>> Part of Item:
>>> Comment Type: general comment
>>> Summary of Issue: Lack of showing amendments
>>> Comment (Including rationale for any proposed change):
>>> Some of us struggle to spot changes/proof read.  It would therefore have
>> been exceptionally useful if the amendments/changes in the 8 July drafts
> had
>> been marked to show the differences between those documents and the
> existing
>> WAIG2.
>>>
>>> Proposed Change:
>>> Please mark amendments/changes in some way - including where you have
>> 'repaired' broken links.
>>>
>> ================================
>> Response from the Working Group
>> ================================
>> The draft documents released for public review contain links to
>> diff-marked versions:
>>
>> Understanding WCAG 2.0, Single file diff-marked version showing
>> revisions since 11 December 2008,
>>
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2010/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20100708/complete-diff
>> .html
>>
>> Techniques for WCAG 2.0, Single file diff-marked version showing
>> revisions since 11 December 2008,
>> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2010/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20100708/complete-diff.html
>>
>> Unfortunately, the diff mark-up will not catch links whose only change
>> is to their targets.
>>
>> While we believe that all links were reviewed and were either working
>> or removed when the draft documents were released, we have no way of
>> ensuring that those links continue to stay unbroken.
>>
>>
>> Loretta Guarino Reid, WCAG WG Co-Chair
>> Gregg Vanderheiden, WCAG WG Co-Chair
>> Michael Cooper, WCAG WG Staff Contact
>>
>>
>> On behalf of the WCAG Working Group
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>

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