Re: Publication? How people with disabilities use the web

There you go!

https://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/people-use-web/stories

Thank you Norah!

Happy Holidays to y’all!

Eric

On 22 Dec 2017, at 16:15, Sinclair, Norah M wrote:

> Hi Sharron and Eric,
>
>
> I saw Eric's previous email and changes to James' comments, but 
> thought I would wait until the survey closed to make the additional 
> changes in case there were more. I added comments to the issues: 
> https://github.com/w3c/wai-people-use-web/issues/58
>
>
> - Provided expanded form of CART acronym
>
> - Revised long sentences
>
>
> Eric, can you implement the changes from the comments I added?
>
>
> +1 to adding colons and semicolons where needed
>
> [https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/13589074?s=400&v=4]<https://github.com/w3c/wai-people-use-web/issues/58>
>
> [!!] Typos, Grammar, and Other Needed Fixes · Issue #58 · 
> w3c/wai-people-use-web<https://github.com/w3c/wai-people-use-web/issues/58>
> github.com
> Typos: Remove the ) at the end of "He also recently began to explore 
> the use of assistive touch on his mobile phone which also helps him 
> use fewer gestures and work for longer periods of time.)" ...
>
> 😊
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> Norah Sinclair
> Instructional Technology and User Support Specialist
>
> AMAC Accessibility Solutions and Research Center
> Georgia Institute of Technology | College of Design
> 512 Means Street | Suite 250 | Atlanta, GA 30318
>
> phone 404.894.7432
> www.amacusg.org<http://www.amacusg.org/>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Sharron Rush <srush@knowbility.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2017 9:35 AM
> To: Eric Eggert; Sinclair, Norah M
> Cc: EO Planning
> Subject: Re: Publication? How people with disabilities use the web
>
> Hi Norah,
>
> I am not sure if you are around today, but wanted to get theses 
> considerations in cue for whenever you return.  There are many GitHub 
> Open Issues <https://github.com/w3c/wai-people-use-web/issues> for the 
> resource but only a couple of them (2) must be addressed now - before 
> publication. Eric has kindly outlined those in his previous email and 
> I have copied them here:
>
>   *   Provide expanded form of CART acronym
>
>   *   The following 2 sentences are verrrry long. Please break into a 
> few/simplify. "The university became aware of the need and requirement 
> to provide captioned media and transcripts for audio content and is 
> now working with a captioning provider to caption all content posted 
> on university websites and course content in learning management 
> systems, following the WCAG guidelines. In addition to providing 
> access to the content for students who are deaf or hard of hearing, 
> the university has found that the use of captions and transcripts 
> facilitates easier production of subtitles in a number of languages 
> and improves the indexing of their online content which provides 
> improved search engine optimization and improved discoverability of 
> the university’s online content."
>
> Once you have made - or dismissed - these 2 issues, we can clear them 
> with James and publish.  If you can get to it before the end of the 
> year, that will be wonderful.  If not please just let me know.
>
> Thank you and Merry Christmas!!
>
> Sharron
>
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 5:13 AM, Eric Eggert 
> <ee@w3.org<mailto:ee@w3.org>> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I did not hear a planning team OK for the publication of the stories 
> from “How people with disabilities use the web”. The survey seems 
> to be generally in favor of publication:
>
> https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35532/ApproveHPWDUW2017/results
>
> There are two open pull requests from the review:
>
> https://github.com/w3c/wai-people-use-web/pulls
>
> And there are several issues opened by Shadi that only need to be 
> addressed when we put the document into the new design, so I postponed 
> them:
>
> https://github.com/w3c/wai-people-use-web/issues?utf8=✓&q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+author%3Anitedog+label%3Awai-redesign-before<https://github.com/w3c/wai-people-use-web/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+author%3Anitedog+label%3Awai-redesign-before>
>
> One of the pull requests includes some changes proposed by James:
>
> https://github.com/w3c/wai-people-use-web/issues/58
>
> But there are still two open issues that the resource manager needs to 
> address (or dismiss):
>
>   *   Provide expanded form of CART acronym
>
>   *   The following 2 sentences are verrrry long. Please break into a 
> few/simplify. "The university became aware of the need and requirement 
> to provide captioned media and transcripts for audio content and is 
> now working with a captioning provider to caption all content posted 
> on university websites and course content in learning management 
> systems, following the WCAG guidelines. In addition to providing 
> access to the content for students who are deaf or hard of hearing, 
> the university has found that the use of captions and transcripts 
> facilitates easier production of subtitles in a number of languages 
> and improves the indexing of their online content which provides 
> improved search engine optimization and improved discoverability of 
> the university’s online content."
>
> Therefore, and without other direction, I decided to hold off 
> publication of the stories page until all the changes are implemented.
>
> Eric
>
> --
>
> Eric Eggert
> Web Accessibility Specialist
> Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
>
>
>
> --
> Sharron Rush | Executive Director | Knowbility.org | @knowbility
> Equal access to technology for people with disabilities





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Eric Eggert
Web Accessibility Specialist
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)