Re: [a11y-metadata-project] accessHazard

This is one of the problems with simple names that a person would type into an attribute vs. the deeper meaning.

The deeper meaning is defined in the best practices guide at http://www.a11ymetadata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/A11yMetadataProjectBestPracticesGuide_V.6final.pdf


Hazards
Some digital media can be physically dangerous to those who access it. It is commonly known
that rates of flashing faster than 3Hz (3 times per second) can cause seizures, but loud
repetitive sounds can have the same effect. Nausea is another hazard that can be brought on by
motion simulation in visual resources.
When a resource is known to contain such physical hazards, the user needs to discover their
presence before accessing the content. Although adding warnings to the page may seem sufficient,
such warnings are easily missed.
The accessHazardproperty allows these physiological dangers to be identified so that a
search engine can report the hazard. It has three predefined values to account for the
above­mentioned situations: flashing, soundand motionSimulation.

I think that this is covered, especially as people would understand that this is a flashing hazard, not just a flashing attribute (part of why it is split into accessHazard and not a mediaFeature).

On Oct 1, 2013, at 3:56 PM, Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo <emmanuelle@sidar.org<mailto:emmanuelle@sidar.org>> wrote:

Hi all,

I am concerned that the term "flashing" can be misleading or confusing. Something that flashes is not bad in itself, everything depends on the ratio of flashes per second. At least not for everyone. While something that flashes to any ratio can be annoying and even disabling for a person with attention deficit is not for everyone. And for something that flashes generate a seizure, certain conditions must be met.
I think we need to be more precise.
Perhaps there could be a general indicator for something that flashes and another for something that can generate seizures in some people.

Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo
Patrono y Directora General
Fundación Sidar - Acceso Universal
Email: coordina@sidar.org<mailto:coordina@sidar.org>
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De: a11y-metadata-project@googlegroups.com<mailto:a11y-metadata-project@googlegroups.com> [mailto:a11y-metadata-project@googlegroups.com<mailto:metadata-project@googlegroups.com>] En nombre de Madeleine Rothberg
Enviado el: miércoles, 02 de octubre de 2013 0:43
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Asunto: Re: [a11y-metadata-project] accessHazard

Yes! Even better.

Madeleine

On 2013-10-01, at 6:11 PM, "Charles Myers" <charlesm@benetech.org<mailto:charlesm@benetech.org>> wrote:
Charles McN had a great idea when he brought this up.  But it may actually be a bit simpler to specify.
Rather than sav


  *   noFlashing
  *   noMotionSimulation
  *   noSound

in addition to the three properties we have today

  *   flashing
  *   motionSimulation
  *   sound


we might just want to have a state of "none" (saying that you checked and that there are no hazards that you are aware of).

That would change the spec to

  *   flashing
  *   motionSimulation
  *   sound
  *   none (or noHazard)

which makes it cleaner.  I think that saying the negative to each of the three properties would be a bit tedious.  And, of course, not having the property means that it has not been checked.




On Oct 1, 2013, at 1:38 PM, Madeleine Rothberg <madeleine_rothberg@wgbh.org<mailto:madeleine_rothberg@wgbh.org>>
 wrote:


Chuck has updated the issues list to include the discussion of whether
accessHazard should state positive or negative information. See that post
and my comments, which are also below, at:
[http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/Accessibility/Issues_Tracker#accessHazar
d_-_Ok_as_is.2C_or_should_it_be_negated_in_sense.3F]

I believe we need both accessHazard=flashing and accessHazard=noFlashing,
etc.. This is because there are three cases we'd like to distinguish:

1. checked and it's fine
2. checked and it is NOT fine
3. didn't check

"Didn't check" can be signified by no metadata -- this will be most of the
content on the Web. In cases where someone has checked, let's record both
positive and negative states.

-Madeleine

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