Re: Annotation Accessibility Use Cases...

That's correct :)

Actually it can be any resource, not necessarily just HTML5.  HTML will
likely be the best supported, for obvious reasons.  The resource can be
inline within the annotation, or referenced with a URL.

Rob


On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:27 AM, George Kerscher <kerscher@montana.com>wrote:

> Hi Rich,
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> I don't know if such a document exists, however, the body of an open
> annotation is straight HTML and my understanding that all of the good
> things that come with HTML5, including ARIA would be included in the body
> markup.
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> Best
>
> George
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>
>
> *From:* Richard Schwerdtfeger [mailto:schwer@us.ibm.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 04, 2014 10:15 AM
> *To:* George Kerscher
> *Cc:* 'Anh Bui'; 'Robert Sanderson'; 'Bill Kasdorf'; 'Gerardo Capiel';
> 'Markus Gylling'; 'W3C Digital Publishing IG'; 'Suzanne Taylor'; 'Thea
> Eaton'
>
> *Subject:* RE: Annotation Accessibility Use Cases...
>
>
>
> Hi George,
>
> Although it would not be in this document I am not seeing a plan for
> mapping annotations to ones that can be accessed via a reader by assistive
> technology users or disabled users who do not rely on an assistive
> technology. We need to see what the mapping would be like from open
> annotation to content markup to browser export to ATs. Does such a document
> exist?
>
> example:
>
> Open annotation -> specific HTML/SVG/MathML/ARIA markup -> platform
> accessibility API services and/or browser feature.
>
> Rich
>
>
> Rich Schwerdtfeger
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> From: "George Kerscher" <kerscher@montana.com>
> To: "'Bill Kasdorf'" <bkasdorf@apexcovantage.com>, "'Robert Sanderson'" <
> azaroth42@gmail.com>, "'Gerardo Capiel'" <gerardoc@benetech.org>
> Cc: "'Suzanne Taylor'" <suzanne.taylor@pearson.com>, "'Anh Bui'" <
> anhb@benetech.org>, Richard Schwerdtfeger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS, "'W3C Digital
> Publishing IG'" <public-digipub-ig@w3.org>, "'Thea Eaton'" <
> thea@doodledoo.com>, "'Markus Gylling'" <markus.gylling@gmail.com>
> Date: 03/04/2014 10:46 AM
> Subject: RE: Annotation Accessibility Use Cases...
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> Hi All,
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> This looks good. Want to make sure the following is covered:
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> Not only dss offices etc., but organizations serving persons with
> disabilities, e.g. the DAISY libraries who have traditionally distributed
> whole books could possibly move to the distribution of annotations and
> enhance the fundamentally accessible books.
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> Also, I would think that providing a link out to repositories of
> accessible infographics would be a use for annotations; how would this work
> with ARIA's describedat?
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> I expect the metadata would help determine if an external resource is
> targeted at persons who are blind, low vision,  dyslexic, learning
> disabled, etc. Also, the term learning disabled is not used internationally.
>
>
>
> Best
>
> George
>
>
>
> *From:* Bill Kasdorf [mailto:bkasdorf@apexcovantage.com<bkasdorf@apexcovantage.com>]
>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 04, 2014 2:30 AM
> *To:* Robert Sanderson; Gerardo Capiel
> *Cc:* Suzanne Taylor; Anh Bui; Richard Schwerdtfeger; W3C Digital
> Publishing IG; Thea Eaton; Markus Gylling
> *Subject:* RE: Annotation Accessibility Use Cases...
>
>
>
> Re:
>
> >>> 7. Metadata to identify the descriptions as alternatives or
> transcriptions of inaccessible or poorly described visual content.
>
> Metadata about the comment or target resource I think is in the scope of
> the metadata taskforce, rather than the annotation taskforce? But I'd be
> interested to hear Bill's thoughts on that?
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>
> Yes, I agree this belongs as a metadata use case. Good example of the
> intersection of metadata and accessibility that I mentioned on last week's
> call.
>
>
>
> *From:* Robert Sanderson [mailto:azaroth42@gmail.com <azaroth42@gmail.com>]
>
> *Sent:* Monday, March 03, 2014 1:15 PM
> *To:* Gerardo Capiel
> *Cc:* Suzanne Taylor; Anh Bui; Richard Schwerdtfeger; W3C Digital
> Publishing IG; Thea Eaton; Markus Gylling
> *Subject:* Re: Annotation Accessibility Use Cases...
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi Gerardo,
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> Thanks for the link and thoughts! :)
>
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> Regarding 5 through 8, and inlining them here for ease of discussion, I
> hope that's okay...
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> >>> 5.  Support for HTML markup to describe complex images such as pie
> charts with tables.
>
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> The body of the annotation can be of any format in the current OA data
> model. This is implicit in 2.1.4, but I'll call it out more explicitly.
>  That said, 2.1.1 does talk about HTML and I could simply remove the
> "basic" adjective (as what is "basic HTML" anyway?)
>
>
>
> >>> 6. Support for MathML to transcribe images that are mathematical
> formulas (MathML is supported by various Assistive Technologies.)
>
> As 5.  I can change one of the examples to explicitly call out MathML
> though?
>
>
>
> >>> 7. Metadata to identify the descriptions as alternatives or
> transcriptions of inaccessible or poorly described visual content.
>
> Metadata about the comment or target resource I think is in the scope of
> the metadata taskforce, rather than the annotation taskforce? But I'd be
> interested to hear Bill's thoughts on that?
>
>
>
> The alternatives use cases are: 2.2.6,  2.3.7,  and 2.5.1.  If there's
> some annotation specific metadata about the transcription/alternative, then
> I think we should include it in 2.5.1 or a new 2.5.2
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>
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> >>> 8. A mechanism for original publishers to query, analyze and integrate
> "crowdsourced" descriptions and transcriptions created by annotation in
> order to pull those back into the original content.
>
>
>
> Yup, I have this exact requirement elsewhere as well -- images of medieval
> manuscripts are very inaccessible, even to perfectly able scholars :)  I
> think it's covered, broadly, by 2.4.3.  We could create a new use case that
> focuses on bringing the data back to the publisher though, rather than the
> more generic "system" transfer.
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>
> Rob
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> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Gerardo Capiel <gerardoc@benetech.org>
> wrote:
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> *Robert* - I took a look at the Annotations Use Cases document on the W3C
> GitHub.  The accessibility use cases<http://w3c.github.io/dpub-annotation/#using-annotation-for-contributing-accessibility-information> looked
> good overall.  I checked them against the technical requirements 1-4 in the
> below position paper I recently submitted for the W3C Workshop and they
> seem to be covered.  It's less clear to me whether requirements 5-8 in the
> the position paper are covered, so I would appreciate your thoughts:
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> http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39156804/benetech_annotation_position.html
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> *Suzanne* - I'd be curious as to your thoughts on #8.
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> Thank You,
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> Gerardo
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