- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:51:36 -0600
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Matt Morgan-May <mattmay@adobe.com>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, David Poehlman <poehlman1@comcast.net>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Robert J Burns <rob@robburns.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, Leif Halvard Silli <lhs@malform.no>, James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>, Joshue O Connor <joshue.oconnor@cfit.ie>, Steve Axthelm <steveax@pobox.com>, Steven Faulkner <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>, "wai-xtech@w3.org" <wai-xtech@w3.org>, "wai-liaison@w3.org" <wai-liaison@w3.org>, "janina@rednote.net" <janina@rednote.net>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, W3C WAI Protocols & Formats <w3c-wai-pf@w3.org>
On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 11:16 -0800, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > On Feb 26, 2009, at 6:08 AM, Dan Connolly wrote: > > > > > That's the 2nd time in this thread that I've seen someone take issue > > with the problem statement/goals. (the other > > was Faulkner 24 Feb 2009 10:25:49 +0000). > > > > Ian, I have seen your responses regarding some of the proposed > > solutions, but not these points about the problem statement. > > > > What do you think of the more constrained problem statement, > > addressing "rendering to non-visual media such as speech > > and Braille"? > > Limiting the problem scope to non-visual media would, at first glance, > violate our Media Independence and Accessibility design principles: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/#media-independence > http://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/#accessibility The conflict with the media independence principle is clear enough; I don't quite see a conflict with the accessibility principle as stated. In any case, now I'm interested to hear from Faulkner and others... do you see the conflict with the design principles? Do you think we should make an exception? Change the principle(s)? Or accept the broader problem statement? > If there is a specific reason that a feature only for non-visual media > would be more effective than a feature for all media, perhaps because > trying to be fully general hurts the non-visual case, then it might be > appropriate to have a feature for non-visual users only. But it seems > to me that assuming this in the problem statement is contrary to our > Design Principles. We should consider all users unless there is a > specific reason not to in a particular instance. > > Regards, > Maciej -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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