RE: 2.4.2 Issues

David's proposal uses delivery units. Using perceivable units was my
thought, after reading the issue description. But I don't understand the
intricacies of these relationships, so it may be better just to to with
David's wording.

Loretta Guarino Reid
lguarino@adobe.com
Adobe Systems, Acrobat Engineering 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John M Slatin [mailto:john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 10:06 AM
> To: Loretta Guarino Reid; public-wcag-teamb@w3.org
> Subject: RE: 2.4.2 Issues
> 
> The problem with "perceivable unit" (as I understand it)
> is that authors
> can't control what happens when a single delivery unit is
> rendered as
> multiple perceivable units, so ther emight not be a way to
> satisfy the
> SC if we used David's wording  .
> 
> I'm not completely certain that I understand "perceivable
> unit"
> properly. The term comes from the Device Independence WG's
> Glossary.
> Could someone check it and se if we can determine whether
> perceivable
> unit is or isn't under authorial contrl? (We may also need
> to check with
> someone from DI WG to be sure on this one.)
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-wcag-teamb-request@w3.org
> [mailto:public-wcag-teamb-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of
> Loretta Guarino
> Reid
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 8:50 am
> To: public-wcag-teamb@w3.org
> Subject: 2.4.2 Issues
> 
> 
> 1. Issue 1825:
> http://trace.wisc.edu/bugzilla_wcag/show_bug.cgi?id=1825
> 
> Recommendation: Close this issue saying that 2.4.7 haw
> been changed to
> remove "page or other".
> 
> 2. Issue 1741
> http://trace.wisc.edu/bugzilla_wcag/show_bug.cgi?id=1741
> 
> Recommendation: adopt David Macdonald's proposal, which
> clarifies that
> the SC only applies at the delivery unit level.
> 
> <current>
> 2.4.2 More than one way is available to locate content
> within a set of
> delivery units where content is not the result of, or a
> step in, a
> process or task. </current>
> 
> <proposed>
> 2.4.2 More than one way is available to locate each
> delivery unit within
> a set of delivery units where the content of the delivery
> unit is not
> the result of, or a step in, a process or task.
> </proposed>
> 
> More of the issue might be addressed if we used
> "perceivable unit"
> instead of "delivery unit". Would there be problems if we
> change this
> to:
> 
> <proposed>
> 2.4.2 More than one way is available to locate each
> perceivable unit
> within a set of perceivable units where the content of the
> perceivable
> unit is not the result of, or a step in, a process or
> task.
> </proposed>

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