Re: Definition of Documents -- OOPS - error fixed -- use this email to comment

Gregg, Alex,

I don't see how Gregg's change addresses hard drive partitions.  BUT 
they are already addressed by our Note 3, so I'm not worried about those.

Further, as I think about this, I think the other concern of an e-mail 
file is likewise addressed by our Note 3 ("software configuration AND 
STORAGE FILES such as databases").  A mail file containing in a single 
file an entire folder of e-mails is fundamentally a simple flat file 
database STORAGE FILE.

I don't mind the generalization language that Gregg suggests inserting.  
It makes Note 3 more of a specific example of the general new phrase 
Gregg proposes.  But I also think we were prescient enough in crafting 
the language of Note 3 to cover all of the examples cited so far as 
potential problems.


Peter

On 8/19/2013 1:54 PM, Alex Li wrote:
>
> Gregg,
>
> How does the change prevent readers from interpreting a hard drive 
> partition as a "single entity"?
>
> All best,
>
> Alex
>
> *From:*Gregg Vanderheiden [mailto:gv@trace.wisc.edu]
> *Sent:* Monday, August 19, 2013 1:32 PM
> *To:* public-wcag2ict-tf@w3.org Force
> *Subject:* Definition of Documents -- OOPS - error fixed -- use this 
> email to comment
>
> Sorry,
>
> grabbed the wrong draft - here is the actual current definition with 
> change.    (last one was missing the new note 3)
>
> G
>
> 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 
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2ict/#wcag2ict-def_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 document always requires a user agent to present its 
> content <http://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2ict/#wcag2ict-def_content> to the user.
>
> *Note 2: *Letters, spreadsheets, emails, books, pictures, 
> presentations, and movies are examples of documents.
>
> *Note 3: *Software configuration and storage files such as databases 
> and virus definitions, as well as computer instruction files such as 
> source code, batch/script files, and firmware, are examples of files 
> that function as part of software 
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2ict/#wcag2ict-def_software> and thus are 
> not examples of documents. If and where software retrieves 
> "information and sensory experience to be communicated to the user" 
> from such files, it is just another part of the content 
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2ict/#wcag2ict-def_content> that occurs in 
> software and is covered by WCAG2ICT like any other parts of the 
> software. Where such files contain one or more embedded documents, the 
> embedded documents remain documents under this definition.
>
> *Note 4: *Anything that can present its own content 
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2ict/#wcag2ict-def_content> without 
> involving a user agent, such as a self playing book, is not a document 
> but is software <http://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2ict/#wcag2ict-def_software>.
>
> *Note 5: *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 
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2ict/#wcag2ict-def_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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