Re: DPUB Interest Group | Accessibility review of Open Annotations - Action Item

Hi Suzanne, all,

Thanks so much for doing that! :)




On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Suzanne Taylor
<suzanne.taylor@pearson.com>wrote:

>  Under Social Reading and Annotations > Other Use Cases, I added 2 new
> use cases related to accessibility:
>
>    - Making sure the annotations can be found:
>    https://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Anno_A11y_1
>
> Mostly implementation guidelines, rather than requiring any particular
feature in the model/vocabulary/serialization I think, but very important!


>    - Making sure the annotations can be categorized:
>    https://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Anno_A11y_2
>
> Whereas this one requires a slot in the model for the label.
 Categorization (or tagging) of annotations has been discussed in the OACG,
and there are several ways to accomplish it.  The easiest is a property on
the annotation, body or specific resource (in order of ease).  The more
systematic and interoperable way is to annotate the annotation with the
category in the manner of tagging any other resource.


 In Anno-Specific-2 (Highlighting a Span of Text) and Anno-Specific-3
> (Commenting on a Span of Text), under dependencies, I added links to
> "Making sure the annotations can be found":
> https://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Anno_A11y_1 and to the longer use case
> from the accessibility section.
>

+1


>  In Anno-Advanced-3 (Maintaining Annotation Style), under dependencies, I
> added links to "Making sure the annotations can be categorized":
> https://www.w3.org/dpub/IG/wiki/Anno_A11y_2  and to the longer use case
> from the accessibility section.
>

+1



>  In Anno-Specific-4 (Annotating Embedded Resources), I added bullet three
> under "Requirements":
>
>    - Ability to select all or part of alternative versions of resources
>    (i.e. some portion of the alternative text) and have these exposed without
>    assistive technology to those who read the comments.
>
> I think this is fundamental enough that it deserves its own separate use
case? The functionality of annotating an image, versus the functionality of
annotating the alt-text of an image seems quite distinct to me?


>
>
>  In Anno-Specific-5 (Annotating Parts of Embedded Resources), I added
> bullet three under "Requirements":
>
>    - High level semantic description of the part (i.e. 'user selected
>    portion of this image') and ability for the annotator to name the part
>    (i.e. 'the oak tree')
>
> +1 (and see comments above about categorization/tagging)


>
>  In Anno-Advanced-6 (Recording State of User Manipulated Resources), I
> added bullet three under "Requirements":
>
>    - Ability for the annotator to name the state (i.e. 'view from
>    underground looking up at the tree roots')
>
> And +1 again :)

Many thanks Suzanne and Rich!

Rob