RE: [media] restructuring of the requirements document

Clear audio does require separation of the audio streams, so it's partly control and partly media. Your call.

-----Original Message-----
From: public-html-a11y-request@w3.org [mailto:public-html-a11y-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Silvia Pfeiffer
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:31 AM
To: jimallan@tsbvi.edu
Cc: HTML Accessibility Task Force
Subject: Re: [media] restructuring of the requirements document

Actually - "Clear Audio" may fall under control function then, too?
Regards,
Silvia.


On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Jim Allan <jimallan@tsbvi.edu> wrote:
> Silvia,
> Nice restructuring. Cohesive.
> 2.4 time scale modification and
> 2.9 content navigation by Content Structure
>
> To me they are not so much content technology as they are a control 
> function, and would seem to fit better in 3.
> Jim
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: public-html-a11y-request@w3.org [mailto:public-html-a11y- 
>> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Silvia Pfeiffer
>> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 3:56 AM
>> To: HTML Accessibility Task Force
>> Subject: [media] restructuring of the requirements document
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've had a thorough read of the requirements document for media 
>> accessibility, now at 
>> http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Media_Accessibility_Requirements .
>>
>> I am proposing to change the structure to the following:
>>
>>
>> 1. Understanding the needs of sensory impaired users
>>
>> This will contain everything from the first section up until 1.1.
>>
>> I propose to create a structure for this by listing the different 
>> types of users, which are currently described each in a different
>> paragraph:
>> 1.1 Blind
>> 1.2 Low vision
>> 1.3 Atypical color perception
>> 1.4 Deaf / HoH
>> 1.5 Deaf-blind
>> 1.6 Dexterity / Mobility impairment
>> 1.7 Learning disability
>> 1.8 Autism
>>
>> 2. Alternative Content Technologies
>>
>> This will contain the list of alternative content that is being used 
>> to help the different types of users.
>> For each of these content technologies, I propose to use 1-2 
>> paragraphs of terse free-text description what they are and how they 
>> are being used, then move on to listing the individual requirements 
>> in a numbered way.
>> This requires merging some of the sections in 1 and all of the 
>> sections in 2 and extending those from 1 with numbered bulletpoints 
>> that don't yet have them.
>>
>> I propose the following structure:
>> 2.1 Audio Description
>> 2.2 Extended description
>> 2.3 Clear Audio
>> 2.4 Time Scale Modification
>> 2.5 Captioning
>> 2.6 Extended captioning
>> 2.7 Sign Translation
>> 2.8 Transcripts
>> 2.9 Content Navigation by Content Structure
>>
>>
>> 3. System Requirements
>>
>> I would like to add this section with requirements for system-wide 
>> use of all of the alternative content technologies described in section 2.
>> Everything that affects how the alternative content works together 
>> and with the media and other resources will go here.
>>
>> I'd propose something like the following structure:
>> 3.1 Keyboard Access to interactive controls / menus
>> 3.2 Production practice and resulting requirements
>> 3.3 Requirements on browser settings
>> 3.4 Discovery and activation/deactivation of available alternative 
>> content by the user
>> 3.5 Requirements on the use of the viewport
>> 3.6 Requirements on making properties available to the accessibility 
>> interface
>> 3.7 Requirements on the parallel use of alternate content on 
>> potentially multiple devices in parallel <possibly more>
>>
>> There is possibly more that has to go here, but I wanted to separate 
>> the requirements on the alternate content (section 2) from the 
>> requirements on the accessibility system that makes all the alternate 
>> content work. I hope this is agreeable.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Silvia.
>
>
>

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