Re: New SC relating to notifications of content change (was Re: Some thinking around the orientation discussion)

sounds like the right idea

yea — it is always the     "how do  you define “important” in a quantitative way?”   that killed us in trying to create these things.    Yet you can’t know if you met this without it. 


gregg

> On May 9, 2016, at 9:03 AM, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com> wrote:
> 
> Jonathan Avila” wrote:
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>> There is always a balance between between too much or too little feedback. 
> 
> Agreed, and that is partly why I think it needs to be done on the author/developer side of things. An automated solution (e.g. user-agent detecting changes) would be too blunt, it needs to take account of the context.
> 
> A straw-man SC could be: If the page is updated away from the “Point of regard” [1], and the change is important to their task, the user must be notified.
> 
> The middle part of that (about task) isn’t workable, but that’s what I’m trying to get at.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -Alastair
> 
> 1] I’m not a big fan of this term, but it has the right meaning for this point.
> http://w3c.github.io/low-vision-a11y-tf/requirements.html#point-of-regard-and-proximity 

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