RE: Feedback on Web of Things

To Shadi and Jason

Thanks very much for this discussion and exciting to contribute to this - as mentioned on the call this is an area of emerging tech that I find really interesting for its access potential 

To respond to your feedback: 

- yes agree with your approach on point 1.  Another resource that might help to build on this that I was involved in is the Emergency 2.0 wiki: http://emergency20wiki.org/.  This was specifically focused on social media but some of the themes being brought up here for IoT/WoT are likely to be applicable. 

- for point 2,  I think Jason's point pretty much addresses it so all good there. 

- for point 3, agree that it's a broader point and not disability-speicifc. 

Scott. 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Shadi Abou-Zahra [mailto:shadi@w3.org] 
Sent: Thursday, 9 February 2017 11:22 PM
To: White, Jason J <jjwhite@ets.org>; Scott Hollier <scott@hollier.info>
Cc: RQTF <public-rqtf@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Feedback on Web of Things

Great, Jason. I added the following to "Accessibility Support" section:
  - All hardware controls provided can be operated through the web interface or API

Best,
   Shadi


On 09-Feb-17 16:02, White, Jason J wrote:
> Thank you, Shadi, for the excellent follow-up in this discussion.
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> A further idea which this brings to mind, but which doesn't appear to have so far been raised, is that devices could report, or link to, details of their hardware-based controls. Suppose a device stops responding via its Web of Things interface. I need to know where the power button or reset button is, but, as it happens, I can't see the labels. Of course, I could search the vendor's WCAG-conformant Web site to find their accessible documentation, but doing so could be a slow process, and, in any case, I would need the device's model number - readily available if I bought it, perhaps, but not if it's in the hotel room, for example.
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> I think we should articulate a general principle: assume that the user cannot operate the UI provided by the hardware. Therefore, make sure that all of the functionality can be controlled via the Web of Things interface. The additional point about access to structured information about hardware-based controls is not essential, but it's nonetheless desirable.
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> Comments and further thoughts are most welcome.
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