RE: Survey for Tomorrows Call

Jim,

I appreciate you taking up this discussion.

You are correct, the guidelines that I referenced were for a 3rd party print service but the guidelines themselves document the requirements for large printed materials in general.

My inclusion of those guidelines was to reference the work of other experts in the field and what they have determined to be the requirements for printed materials for those with low-vision.

My feeling is that our documentation should cover any items from the ACB documentation that the referenced UAAG 1.4.4 is missing.

With the amount of detail that ACB has, I would hate to get pushback from them that our recommendations do not at least mirror their requirements to the extent that can be done on a personal computer/mobile printer most users would have available to themselves and not through a 3rd party.

I hope that helps.

Regards, 

Ala

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From: Jim Allan
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 12:31 PM
To: ALAN SMITH
Cc: public-low-vision-a11y-tf
Subject: Re: Survey for Tomorrows Call

Hi Alan,
We talked about your concern a bit on the call. The ACB [1] document seems to be about minimum requirements for printed materials from a 3rd party. 
The Accessibility Requirements for Low Vision Users document, specifically 3.7.1 Printing customized text, is about users being able to customize the content on the screen to meet their unique needs and print that customized view. 
The goal is that the user can choose the font, weight, leading, proportionality of headings (etc), alignment, spacing, bullet types, widow/orphans, page numbering, margins, columns, etc. (as delineated in various user requirements 3.1 - 3.5) and then print it on the paper color and weight of their choosing (3.7.1). The user is to be afforded as much control over the content as stated in our requirements and be able to print their final best view how ever they want. 
If there is some thing missing, we have time to discuss and perhaps add it. the "final polished" version of the First public working draft is slated to go to the WCAG working group mid Feb. 
Please bring your concerns to the group. Let's make the document better.
Jim

1. http://acb.org/node/750

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 9:47 AM, ALAN SMITH <alands289@gmail.com> wrote:
Jim,
 
Regrets as I have a business meeting starting at 10 am. 
 
I reviewed the requesed survey document and added this comment:
I'm concerned that section 3.7 Printing only covers customized text and did
not cover the content that is covered by the American Council for the Blind
at http://acb.org/node/750 as authored by the Council of Citizens with Low
Vision International.
 
Regards,
 
Alan
 
 
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From: Jim Allan
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 8:31 AM
To: public-low-vision-a11y-tf
Subject: Survey for Tomorrows Call
 
 
All,
Apologies for the late posting. 
We have a new survey in preparation for the first public working draft. Please comment. We will discuss tomorrow.
updated document - http://w3c.github.io/low-vision-a11y-tf/requirements.html
survey - https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/81151/prep-for-fpwd/


-- 
Jim Allan, Accessibility Coordinator
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
1100 W. 45th St., Austin, Texas 78756
voice 512.206.9315    fax: 512.206.9264  http://www.tsbvi.edu/
"We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." McLuhan, 1964
 
 



-- 
Jim Allan, Accessibility Coordinator
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
1100 W. 45th St., Austin, Texas 78756
voice 512.206.9315    fax: 512.206.9264  http://www.tsbvi.edu/
"We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." McLuhan, 1964