- From: Peter Korn <peter.korn@oracle.com>
- Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 21:59:43 -0700
- To: "public-wcag2ict-tf@w3.org" <public-wcag2ict-tf@w3.org>, Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net>, Loretta Guarino Reid <lorettaguarino@google.com>
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Hi gang, and also Jason & Loretta, With the assistance of Janina Sajka and Jason White (cc-ed), I have developed Proposal 8 for "command line interfaces", which can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/wcag2ict/cross-cutting-issues-and-notes/command-line-interfaces As per feedback from WCAG WG, this draft does the following: * Speaks in the third person * Has a much shorter section to appear within the main document (as a proposed Chapter 4, appearing right after Closed Functionality) * Has the bulk of the text appearing as an appendix (a new Appendix B) * Has been thoroughly reviewed & vetted by two very experienced command line / text application AT users, namely Janina Sajka and Jason White I had the AI from WCAG WG to get this text vetted by a subteam first, whose members included Loretta. However, in the interest of time - so as to not miss this weeks' WCAG2ICT meeting and sufficient survey time - I'm including Loretta at the same time as the TF for review rather than waiting to put this forward to the TF until after her feedback. Loretta - please share any concerns you have now, so we can address them in our TF meeting this Friday, in hopes of bringing this to WCAG WG next week Tuesday. I would also like to formally invite our expert Jason White to this discussion, as he may be the best person available to answer any questions about how command line / text application screen readers work, since Jason "lives" in Linux/UNIX, and is a power user of BRLTTY and emacspeak (with Janina being more expert in the third Linux/UNIX screen reader user base, Speakup). In talking with Jason & Janina, I was particularly impressed by the power of these screen readers, both when they combined with other common command-line tools (e.g. 'cut' for trimming columns of fixed-width text for effective interactions with columnar/tabular data), and also thanks to the scripts built into emacspeak (which provide heading navigation to a variety of "structured" text documents such as 'man' pages and). Regards, Peter -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Peter Korn | Accessibility Principal Phone: +1 650 5069522 <tel:+1%20650%205069522> 500 Oracle Parkway | Redwood City, CA 94065 Green Oracle <http://www.oracle.com/commitment> Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment
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