Two variants for the redefinition of "accessibility services of software"

Hi gang,

Coming out of our last meeting on 31June13, I have taken a whack at 
redefining "accessibility services of software" to make more central the 
concept that this is about /platform software/, and not all software 
generally.

Please see Proposal #3 at New glossary term "accessibility services of 
software and assistive technology" 
<https://sites.google.com/site/wcag2ict/edits-for-michael-post-2nd-public-draft/new-glossary-term-accessibility-services-of-software-and-assistive-technology>

In particular, please see both***/Variant #3a/* in which I keep our 
existing definition text, but simply change the title of the term to 
"*accessibility services of platform software*"; and then see */Variant 
#3b/* in which I introduce yet another new term: "*platform software*", 
when I then leverage in next text for the retitled term "*accessibility 
services of platform software*".

Fundamentally */Variant #3a/* is the more minimal / less invasive 
change, while */Variant #3b/* makes fuller use of the "teachable moment" 
that our Technical Report affords us. Please also note the section *For 
reference, from ISO 13066-1 *at the bottom of that wiki page, from which 
I draw on (but do not expressly mimic) that ISO text.  While it is 
somewhat tempting to lift definitions word for word from ISO 13066-1, 
those definitions leverage terms & concentps that have slightly 
different existing definitions in WCAG 2.0 (e.g. AT), and I am also 
unclear on whether such copying is of a copyright ISO standard is OK in 
a non-ISO document such as our TR.

Below both variants on the wiki page please see *"Edits to other terms 
common to both Variants #3a and #3b"* where I show show how the new term 
"accessibility services of platform software" would impact our two 
glossary terms "programmatically set" and "programmatically determined", 
as well as Principal 4 and Guideline 4.1 (the change is the same under 
both variants).


I personally don't have a strong preference between */Variant #3a/* and 
*/Variant #3b/* - different things attract me to each of them.  I 
solicit comments / feedback on them, ahead of a formal survey (perhaps 
tomorrow?) ahead of our Friday meeting.  I suggest we survey both 
approaches (as well as the follow-on edits to those two terms, the 
principal, and the guideline).



Peter

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