[WCAG2 TECHS] i18n comment 1: H34 example source direction

 -----Original Message-----
 From: Loretta Guarino Reid [mailto:lorettaguarino@google.com] 
 Sent: 04 November 2007 05:09
 To: Richard Ishida
 Cc: public-comments-WCAG20@w3.org
 Subject: Your comments on WCAG 2.0 Public Working Draft of May, 2007
 
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Loretta Guarino Reid [mailto:lorettaguarino@google.com]
  Sent: 04 November 2007 05:09
 ...
  Please review our resolutions for the following comments, 
 and reply to  us by 19 November 2007 at 
 public-comments-wcag20@w3.org to say whether  you are 
 satisfied. Note that this list is publicly archived.
 ...
  WCAG 2.0 Editor's Draft of May-October 2007 at  
 http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-20071102/
  
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> Comment 6: H34: (example 1) describe that the is placed 
> immediately alongside the exclamation mark
> Source: 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/200
7Jun/0042.html
> (Issue ID: 1964)
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> Original Comment:
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> 
> Comment from the i18n review of:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20070517/
> 
> Comment 1
> At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0706-wcag2-techniques/
> Editorial/substantive: E
> Owner: RI
> 
> Location in reviewed document:
> 
> H34 
> [http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20070517/Overview.html#H34]
> 
> Comment:
> The example of source code is problematic, since it assumes a 
> particular behaviour on the part of the authoring tool (see 
> the discussion on this at
> http://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/tech-bidi.html#d2e277 ).
> 
> I would recommend just describing that the is placed 
> immediately alongside the exclamation mark, and showing 
> before and after examples of the displayed text, as in
> http://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/tech-bidi.html#r
i20030726.140315918
> 
> Note, also, that for people to appreciate the examples, their 
> user agent needs to support bidi text display and Arabic 
> fonts. This is why I am providing a pseudo-arabic version of 
> the example in our best practices doc.
> 
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> Response from Working Group:
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> 
 Response:
 Thank you for helping us improve this technique and its 
 example. We have made the following changes:
 
 * add to Description (before "The character entities for these markers
 are..."): "Unicode right-to-left marks and left-to-right 
 marks can be entered directly or by means of entities."
 
 * change order of numeric character entities and named 
 character entities in the list at the end of the Description.
 
 * add after this list: "Due to the bidi algorithm, a source 
 code editor may not display character entities as expected."
 
 * add "Problems with bidirectional source text"
 (http://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/tech-bidi.html#d2e277)
 to related resources.
 
 * change last sentence above example to :"Inserting a Unicode 
 right-to-left mark (in this case via the HTML character entity)...
 
 * replace named character entity with numeric character 
 entity in code  of Example 1.
 
 * copy the visual ASCII example from
 http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-bidi/#ri20030218.135304584

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