Re: WAI Mobile Resources proposal

[adding plan team email address]

Thank you for sending Susan and Charlotte.
Planning team will look over your plan of attack and provide feedback so
you can get started. Give us a couple of days to respond.

Thanks,
Brent



Brent A. Bakken
Director, Accessibility Strategy & Education Services
Pearson

512 202 1087
brent.bakken@pearson.com

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On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Susan Hewitt <susan.hewitt@deque.com>
wrote:

> Brent, Sharron, please share this with the planning group. Thanks!
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> Hi folks,
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> Charlotte and I have reviewed and discussed the existing WAI mobile pages
> and propose the following changes:
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> 1.      The first two sections of the Web Accessibility Developer Intros
> created  (Mobile Concepts <https://w3c.github.io/wai-mobile-intro/mobile/>
>  andWAI Guidance
> <https://w3c.github.io/wai-mobile-intro/mobile/wai-guidance/>) have a
> broader application than as a tutorial for developers. They serve as an
> introduction and overview to all audiences. We have two options for
> addressing this content:
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> ·         The best option would be to move this content into the broader
> WAI mobile section, replacing the current overview page (
> https://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/) entirely.
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> ·         An alternative would be to duplicate much of this content on
> our overview page(s).
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> In either scenario, the tutorials themselves would be prominently linked
> to and described.
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> 2.      As for the other two existing mobile pages, we recommend
> completely removing them. Some of the more general concepts and information
> on those pages are covered in the Developer Intro content. In our draft,
> we'll clearly note where the content that is still relevant has been
> included in new drafts but we believe the bulk of the content is either
> unneeded at this point or is a replication of content elsewhere on the WAI
> site.
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> 3.      We need to add much more specific language and information about
> native applications. How WCAG addresses and applies to accessibility for
> native apps is not addressed clearly enough in our existing content,
> including in the new Web Developer's guide. We do a good job with Web for
> mobile but must do more to help all audiences with native apps. That's
> absolutely a topic visitors will look for.
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> We will reach out to members of the MATF as well for input.
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> Thanks,
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> Susan and Charlotte
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> Susan Hewitt, CPACC
> Senior Accessibility Consultant
> Deque Systems, Inc
> deque.com
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