RE: R24. End user should be able to use speech in a hands-free mode

Or perhaps "it should be possible to create applications that can operate in a hands-free mode"

Not all apps need do have a hands-free mode.  Neither do all UAs.

-----Original Message-----
From: public-xg-htmlspeech-request@w3.org [mailto:public-xg-htmlspeech-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Satish Sampath
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 4:46 AM
To: Olli@pettay.fi
Cc: public-xg-htmlspeech@w3.org
Subject: Re: R24. End user should be able to use speech in a hands-free mode

I also think we should not make it mandatory to use speech in hands-free mode if the user agent is not enabled for hands-free mode.
Many traditional desktop web browsers are not built for hands-free usage and it doesn't make sense to me that one particular web page which may use speech input can claim to be hands-free when the rest of the browser (i.e. the browser chrome, menus, other user interface
elements) aren't hands-free.

Perhaps the requirement should be "user agents with a hands-free mode should be able to support speech-input in hands-free mode as well".

Cheers
Satish



On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi> wrote:
> R24 is not quite unclear, IMO. The requirement and explanation seem to 
> talk about a bit different things.
> Yes, I think end user should be able to use speech in a hands-free 
> mode, but "to speech-enable every aspect of a web application"?
> Not so sure. There are applications which will be difficult to fully 
> speech-enable. For example some drawing app, which needs to recognize 
> touch/mouse pressure. Sure, user could say, "draw a pixel using 
> pressure x to (1, 1), and then a pixel using pressure y to (2, 2)", 
> but that wouldn't be quite practical.
>
> So, I'd say keep R24 (especially with wording "should" and not 
> "must"), but clarify the explanation somehow.
>
> -Olli
>
>
> On 11/22/2010 10:08 AM, Dan Burnett wrote:
>>
>> Group,
>>
>> This is the next of the requirements to discuss and prioritize based 
>> on our ranking approach [1].
>>
>> This email is the beginning of a thread for questions, discussion, 
>> and opinions regarding our first draft of Requirement 24 [2].
>>
>> Please discuss via email as we agreed at the Lyon f2f meeting.
>> Outstanding points of contention will be discussed live at an 
>> upcoming teleconference.
>>
>> -- dan
>>
>> [1]
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-htmlspeech/2010Oct/0024
>> .html
>> [2]
>>
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-htmlspeech/2010Oct/att-
>> 0001/speech.html#r24
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>

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