- From: Sandor Herramhof <Sandor.Herramhof@jku.at>
- Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:45:05 +0100
- To: "Shadi Abou-Zahra" <shadi@w3.org>
- Cc: <public-wai-ert-tools@w3.org>
Hi, I think nice and short is good, but 200 characters is way to less to give descriptive information. I took a medium description from the current tools description and made a word and character count - if we say a short description needs about 4 medium sentences we would need about 400-500 chars, or 60 to 70 words. Regards, Sandor >>> Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org> 22.11.2005 23:54 >>> Hi, I'm open to suggestions on this but we should try to keep the descriptions nice and short. What do others think about this? Regards, Shadi Steven Faulkner wrote: > Hi all, > I agree with Andrew that the 200 character limit is too restrictive. > can we make it 200 words? > > best regards > stevef > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: public-wai-ert-tools-request@w3.org >>[mailto:public-wai-ert-tools-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Andrew Arch >>Sent: Wednesday, 23 November 2005 8:45 AM >>To: public-wai-ert-tools@w3.org >>Cc: Shadi Abou-Zahra (E-mail) >>Subject: Description restriction >> >> >> >>Hi Shadi, >> >>I've just re-read what we are collecting and realise that the >>description is >>only meant to be 200 CHARACTERS - I had inadvertently read >>this as 200 WORDS >>which to me is a lot more reasonable. Nearly all the current >>descriptions >>are already considerably more than 200 characters - you can't >>say much in 2 >>lines to give people a good idea about a tool. >> >>At one stage in EO I suggested that we have a short >>description and a long >>description - the short description being the default view. >> >>The tools I have collected info for already have 100 - 200 word >>descriptions - do I need to edit these down to 200 characters? >> >>Cheers, Andrew >> >>_________________________________ >>Dr Andrew Arch >>Manager Online Accessibility Consulting >>Vision Australia - Accessible Information Solutions >>454 Glenferrie Rd, Kooyong 3144, Australia >>Ph +61 (0)3 9864 9282; Fax +61 (0)3 9864 9370; Mob 0438 755 565 >>http://www.accessibleinfo.org.au/ | http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/ >> >>Member, Education & Outreach Working Group, >>W3C Web Accessibility Initiative >>http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/ >> >>Vision Australia was formed through the merger of the Royal >>Blind Society >>NSW, the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind, Vision Australia >>Foundation and the National Information & Library Service. >>ABN: 67 108 391 831 ACN: 108 391 831 >> >> >>__________________________________________________________________ >><< ella for Spam Control >> has removed Spam messages and set >>aside Later >>for me >>You can use it too - and it's FREE! http://www.ellaforspam.com >> > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > << ella for Spam Control >> has removed Spam messages and set aside Later > for me > You can use it too - and it's FREE! http://www.ellaforspam.com > > -- Shadi Abou-Zahra, Web Accessibility Specialist for Europe Chair and Team Contact for the Evaluation and Repair Tools WG World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), http://www.w3.org/ Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), http://www.w3.org/WAI/ WAI-TIES Project, http://www.w3.org/WAI/TIES/ Evaluation and Repair Tools WG, http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/ 2004, Route des Lucioles -- 06560, Sophia-Antipolis -- France Voice: +33(0)4 92 38 50 64 Fax: +33(0)4 92 38 78 22
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