RE: Index improvements

First thoughts on some of the easier things to comment on...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-i18n-geo-request@w3.org
> [mailto:public-i18n-geo-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Tex Texin
> Sent: 25 March 2004 07:53
> To: Richard Ishida
> Cc: GEO
> Subject: Re: Index improvements
> 
> 
> 
> Richard,
> 
> It is too wordy for me. The repetitiveness and wordiness
> makes it difficult to find what you are looking for, assuming 
> you don't want to be reading and studying what should be an 
> index page.

I thought about this too.  I'm expecting most people most of the time to
search the page for items of interest, rather than read.  The questions
serve to help the user see what's at the other end of the link without
having to go there and return.  Might be good to have short subheadings
though every so often.


> 
> I would use an icon for tutorial, article, FAQ, so they do
> not need to be read over and over. I am not convinced they 
> should be intermixed or that all 3 are appropriate to answer 
> some of these questions.

This is an index to locate information on the site, so I disagree and
believe that it must point to multiple locations where appropriate.


>(Tutorial is too broad as a response
> to specific questions, faqs are too narrow for general questions. 

If you follow the links to the tutorials, you'll see that I link *into* the
tutorial at the most appropriate place when this is a fairly specific
question.


> 
> I would organize differently.
> Grabbing the first few topics I resequenced them.
> 
> Here is what I grabbed:
> 
> How do I choose an encoding for my document?
> Tutorial: Character sets & encodings in XHTML, HTML and CSS 
> How do I specify the encoding of an HTML, XHTML, XML or CSS document? 
> Tutorial: Character sets & encodings in XHTML, HTML and CSS 
> Techniques: Specifying a page encoding 
> Article: Character encodings 
> Article: Serving XHTML 1.0 
> Where can I find the charset names? 
> URI: IANA charset registry 
> How do I set up my server to serve the right encoding for a page? 
> Article: The HTTP charset parameter 
> How do I set character encoding in my web authoring applications? 
> FAQ: Setting encoding in web authoring applications 
> Can I encode XML and X/HTML in non-Unicode encodings, if the 
> document character set is Unicode? 
> FAQ: Document character set 
> How much support exists today for HTML written in Unicode? 
> FAQ: Who uses Unicode? 
> 
> 
> I would organize as follows and then fill in with the materials :
> 
> (Major heading) Character Sets, Character Encodings, Charset
> 1) What are they?
> 
> 2) What are their names?
> 
> 3) Which one should I use?
> 
> 4) When is Unicode appropriate?
> 
> 5) How do I specify character encodings:
> 5a) in documents
> 5b) in HTTP
> 5c) in Web authoring tools
> 5d) in Web Servers

I was certainly thinking that this section was beginning to reach a size
that merited subdivision and better organization.  Phil and Leslie, we
should probably also do some card sorting type exercise on this.

RI


> 
> 
> hth
> 
> 
> Richard Ishida wrote:
> > 
> > I spent a day talking with Shawn Henry (team member working
> on the WAI
> > Education & Outreach activity) a week last Monday.  I
> shared our stuff
> > with her, and heard from her what her group is working on. (This
> > included some really interesting videos of usability assessments of 
> > the W3C and WAI site by members of the public.)
> > 
> > As a result of accessibility comments made by Shawn about
> our resource
> > index at
> http://www.w3.org/International/resource-> index.html I've been
> 
> > thinking about how to improve it.  I
> came up with an approach you can
> > see partially implemented at
> > http://www.w3.org/International/resource-index.html#charset
> > 
> > Shawn's comment was that many disabled people would prefer
> the links
> > to have more meaningful text.  Initially, I was worried
> that the extra
> > text would make it more difficult to find stuff, but having done a
> > section, I think it's actually easier to see the wood for the trees 
> > now in terms of both finding information and assessing whether to 
> > follow a link.
> > 
> > Any comments before I propagate it to the rest of the page?
> > 
> > RI
> > 
> > PS: Note that I also improved the visibility of the link to
> the index
> > on http://www.w3.org/International/
> > 
> > ============
> > Richard Ishida
> > W3C
> > 
> > contact info: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/
> > 
> > http://www.w3.org/International/
> http://www.w3.org/International/geo/
> 
> --
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Tex Texin   cell: +1 781 789 1898   mailto:Tex@XenCraft.com
> Xen Master                          http://www.i18nGuy.com
>                          
> XenCraft		            http://www.XenCraft.com
> Making e-Business Work Around the World
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>

Received on Friday, 26 March 2004 11:11:04 UTC