RE: ACTION-23 - WCAG response to request to modify intent for 1.3.1 Info and Relationships

Pierce,

We don't have to accept this. We can try again.

How about this?

Sighted users perceive structure AND RELATIONSHIPS through various visual
cues — headings are often in a larger, bold font separated from paragraphs
by blank lines; list items are preceded by a bullet and perhaps indented;
paragraphs are separated by a blank line; form fields may be positioned as
groups that share text labels; a different background color may be used to
indicate that several items are related to each other; words that have
special status are indicated by changing the font family and /or bolding,
italicizing, or underlining them; ITEMS THAT SHARE A COMMON CHARACTERISTIC
ARE ORGANIZED INTO A TABLE WHERE THE RELATIONSHIP OF CELLS SHARING THE SAME
ROW OR COLUMN AND THE RELATIONSHIP OF EACH CELL TO ITS ROW AND/OR COLUMN
HEADER ARE NECESSARY FOR UNDERSTANDING; and so on. Having this structure
and these relationships programmatically determined or available in text
ensures that information important for comprehension will be perceivable by
all.

Andi
                                                                   
                                                                   
                                                                   
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From: "Crowell, Pierce" <Pierce.Crowell@ssa.gov>
To: "'public-wcag2ict-tf@w3.org'" <public-wcag2ict-tf@w3.org>
Date: 07/09/2012 03:20 PM
Subject: RE: ACTION-23 - WCAG response to request to modify intent for
            1.3.1  Info and  Relationships



If they were repetitive, then they selected the lesser of the two.  The
result is now we lost the only mention of the word “table” in all of the
INTENT sections.  At least we still have his cousin “tabular.”

I’m easy on closing AI-23 if we are willing to add “row, column, and
header” to the examples in 4.1.2.  I really wanted it in 1.3.1, but if
there is no clarity there, and I see no added clarity in this outcome, then
a reference in the examples list is desired.

Pierce

From: Andi Snow-Weaver [mailto:andisnow@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 3:25 PM
To: public-wcag2ict-tf@w3.org
Subject: ACTION-23 - WCAG response to request to modify intent for 1.3.1
Info and Relationships



Last week the WCAG working group reviewed our request to modify the intent
for 1.3.1 as follows:
      Replace the current last paragraph which reads:

      There may also be cases where it may be a judgment call about what
      information should appear in text and what would need to be directly
      associated. However, wherever possible it is necessary for the
      information to be programmatically determined rather than providing a
      text description before encountering the table.

      With the following paragraphs  ( a new one plus the paragraph above
      slightly edited)

      Structure and relationships are often visually perceivable. For
      instance, when information is presented in tabular form the visual
      structure and relationship of one cell to another, the structure and
      relationship of one cell to all the cells sharing the same row or
      column, and the relationship of one cell to the row and/or column
      header are necessary for understanding information in a table. Having
      this structure and these relationships programmatically determined or
      available in text ensures that information important for
      comprehension will be perceivable to all.

      There may also be cases where it may be a judgment call as to whether
      the relationships should be programmatically determined or be
      presented in text. However, when technologies support programmatic
      relationships, it is strongly encouraged that information and
      relationships be programmatically determined rather than described in
      text.

Per the survey results and the group discussion, the working group feels
that the first paragraph is repetitive of what is already in the second
paragraph. Instead of adding our first proposed paragraph, they agreed to
this resolution:
      RESOLUTION: 2nd paragraph gets replaced with “Sighted users perceive
      structure through various visual cues — headings are often in a
      larger, bold font separated from paragraphs by blank lines; list
      items are preceded by a bullet and perhaps indented; paragraphs are
      separated by a blank line; items that share a common characteristic
      are organized into tabular rows and columns with their headers; form
      fields may be positioned as groups that share text labels; a
      different background color may be used to indicate that several items
      are related to each other; words that have special status are
      indicated by changing the font family and /or bolding, italicizing,
      or underlining them and so on. HAVING THIS STRUCTURE AND THESE
      RELATIONSHIPS PROGRAMMATICALLY DETERMINED OR AVAILABLE IN TEXT
      ENSURES THAT INFORMATION IMPORTANT FOR COMPREHENSION WILL BE
      PERCEIVABLE TO ALL.
With regard to the second paragraph of our proposal, they agreed to this
resolution:
      RESOLUTION: replace the seventh paragraph with "There may also be
      cases where it may be a judgment call as to whether the relationships
      should be programmatically determined or be presented in text.
      However, when technologies support programmatic relationships, it is
      strongly encouraged that information and relationships be
      programmatically determined rather than described in text.
If there are no objections, with these WCAG resolutions, we can close
ACTION-23 tomorrow.

Andi