- From: Dick Brown <dickb@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:23:39 -0700
- To: "'Gregory J. Rosmaita'" <unagi69@concentric.net>, "'Authoring Tools Guidelines List'" <w3c-wai-au@w3.org>
Unfortunately I wasn't able to talk to the FrontPage and Office folks about GLs 4 and 5 but hope to send their comments to the list by next week. Dick Brown -----Original Message----- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita [mailto:unagi69@concentric.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 11:49 AM To: Authoring Tools Guidelines List Subject: Re: last call and techniques aloha, ian! what we desperately need is the input of persons actually slash intimately involved in the development process, which is why i am particularly interested in dick brown's report on his action item -- viz, to show the techniques for GLs 4 and 5 to FrontPage and Office team members, so as to solicit their opinion... we desperately need more of this type of review, and we need to take advantage of those WG members (such as bruce roberts) who are actually involved in the design and implementation of authoring tools... we also need to hear what the Amaya developers had to say to charles, vis a vis that tool's conformance the AU GL, so as to fine-tune and strengthen not only the techniques document, but so as to ensure that we haven't over-tersified the GL before taking it to last call... only after we get input from developers on the techniques, should we worry about "wrapper prose", gregory. ian wrote to the AU GL list: >Unfortunately, we don't have much data back about whether people >like/find useful the WCAG Techniques document. I think that the >document needs to be readable on its own, which to me implies that >some wrapper prose is necessary. > >How to get this done? Should the editors generate prose? The Working >Group? --------------------------------------------------------------- BIGOT, n. One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. -- Ambrose Bierce --------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net> Camera Obscura <http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/index.html> VICUG NYC <http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/vicug/> Read 'Em & Speak <http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/books/> ---------------------------------------------------------------
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