- From: Gregg Vanderheiden <gv@trace.wisc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 15:26:28 -0500
- To: "public-wcag2ict-tf@w3.org Force" <public-wcag2ict-tf@w3.org>
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In responding to comments made during our public review of WCAG2ICT it appears that we have a flaw in our definition of document. Our current definition is: document (as used in WCAG2ICT) assembly of content, such as a file, set of files, or streamed media that is not part of software and that does not include its own user agent Note 1: A documents always requires a user agent to present its content to the user. Note 2: Letters, spreadsheets, emails, books, pictures, presentations, and movies are examples of documents. Note 3: Anything that can present its own content without involving a user agent, such as a self playing book, is not a document but is software. Note 4: A single document may be composed of multiple files such as the video content, closed caption text, etc. This fact is not usually apparent to the end-user consuming the document / content. This is similar to how a single web page can be composed of content from multiple URIs (e.g. the page text, images, the JavaScript, a CSS file etc.). however, this definition is so broad that an entire email system (such as Outlook which stores all of the email in a single .PST file) would qualify as a single document. In fact, an entire hard drive (that did not contain the OS or apps that displayed it) could be considered a document. I therefore suggest that the phrase " that is meant to function as a single entity rather than a collection," be added so that it reads: assembly of content, such as a file, set of files, or streamed media that is meant to function as a single entity rather than a collection, that is not part of software, and that does not include its own user agent Comments welcome Gregg -------------------------------------------------------- Gregg Vanderheiden Ph.D. Director Trace R&D Center Professor Industrial & Systems Engineering and Biomedical Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison Technical Director - Cloud4all Project - http://Cloud4all.info Co-Director, Raising the Floor - International - http://Raisingthefloor.org and the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure Project - http://GPII.net
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