Re: Proposed editorial changes to the ARIA Graphics module

All,

I sent a word change to Amelia, but forgot to cc the group.

                                                              
     Regards,                                                 
                                                              
    Fred Esch                                                 
 Watson, IBM, W3C                                             
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From:	Amelia Bellamy-Royds <amelia.bellamy.royds@gmail.com>
To:	Fred Esch/Arlington/IBM@IBMUS
Date:	05/09/2016 02:03 PM
Subject:	Re: Proposed editorial changes to the ARIA Graphics module



Thanks Fred, I like that edit.  Semantic text also includes the text
representation of the roles and structure, in addition to the
author-supplied title and desc content.

PS, did you want to copy that comment to the mailing list? You only sent it
to me.

On 9 May 2016 at 11:41, Fred Esch <fesch@us.ibm.com> wrote:
  Amelia,

  The change in Assistive Technologies

  <p>For the graphics roles in particular, two categories of assistive
  technology are particularly relevant, but have different needs:</p>
  <ul>
  <li>Text-based presentations, such as screen readers, braille displays,
  and text-only displays or printers. These technologies need to replace a
  complex graphic with alternative text descriptions, while preserving any
  meaningful structure and relationships between components.
  </li>
  ...



  I think a better choice of words is

  Text-based presentations, such as screen readers, braille displays, and
  text-only displays or printers. These technologies need to replace a
  complex graphic with semantic text descriptions, while preserving any
  meaningful structure and relationships between components.

  (replacing word alternative with semantic).

  With my initial reading of the first line, I thought you were suggesting
  the SVG element should have a title or aria-label that behaved like an
  image alt text and be for the whole graphic because of the phrase
  'alternative text descriptions'. I suggest replacing 'alternative' with
  'semantic' which has a couple of benefits - first it is less likely to be
  confused with alt text and second it introduces the idea that the
  semantics of the graphics is what need to be relayed to the user.




                                                     
     Regards,                                        
                                                     
    Fred Esch                                        
 Watson, IBM, W3C                                    
  Accessibility                                      
                                                     
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                  Quality                            
                                                     




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  Bellamy-Royds ---05/07/2016 08:01:43 PM---While following up on Brian's
  suggested change to the Graphics roles module, I identified a number o

  From: Amelia Bellamy-Royds <amelia.bellamy.royds@gmail.com>
  To: SVG-A11y TF <public-svg-a11y@w3.org>
  Cc: Fred Esch/Arlington/IBM@IBMUS, brian.mcneilly@ssbbartgroup.com
  Date: 05/07/2016 08:01 PM
  Subject: Proposed editorial changes to the ARIA Graphics module




  While following up on Brian's suggested change to the Graphics roles
  module, I identified a number of other editorial issues worth cleaning
  up.

  I've compiled the changes in a pull request (
  https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/365).  Please take a look & if anyone
  has any concerns we can discuss at the next SVG-A11y telcon.

  Best,
  Amelia