- From: Jutta Treviranus <jutta.treviranus@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 09:28:24 -0500
- To: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <unagi69@concentric.net>
- Cc: w3c-wai-au@w3.org
Gregory, I like your rewrite. Should it go at the end of that paragraph and if so should we trim some of the verbiage from the other sentences. Jutta >aloha, again! > >i forgot to insert the URI for the second reference in my previous post -- it >is: >http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-au/1999OctDec/0301.html > >gregory. > >At 06:35 PM 12/15/99 -0500, i wrote: >>aloha, jutta! >> >>in the abstract of the 10 december 1999 draft of ATAG [reference 1], the >second >>paragraph begins thus: >> >>quote >>There are tools (such as text editors) that allow motivated users to create >>accessible Web content, or are accessible themselves to users with certain >>disabilities, but that may not conform to this specification. The purpose of >>this specification is to address the needs of the largest population >>possible, >>so that there is more accessible content on the Web. >>unquote >> >>which you, in a recent post to the AU list [reference 2], suggested be >>changed >>to: >> >>quote >>It should be noted that there are tools (such as text editors) that allow >>motivated authors to create accessible Web content, and there are tools that >>are accessible to users with certain disabilities, however, these tools may >not >>conform to this specification. This specification addresses the needs of the >>largest population possible. >>unquote >> >>i think it would be clearer if the sentences were shorter: >> >>quote >>It should be noted that there are tools, such as text editors, that already >>allow highly motivated authors to create accessible Web content by hand. >>There >>are also tools whose interface is accessible to users with certain >>disabilities, but which limit or preclude the author's ability to produce >>accessible content. It is, therefore, the purpose of this specification to >>address the needs of the largest population possible, by addressing both the >>accessibility of the output created by the tool and the accessibility of the >>tool itself. >>unquote >> >>i'm not too pleased with the reuse of the word "address" in the last >>sentence, >>but i (at least) believe that this is the thought we are attempting to >express: >> >>a) that there are tools which do allow the highly motivated user with >>fore-knowledge of >> >>1. the accessibility problems posed by certain authoring practices; >>2. the accessibility enhancements built into specific markup languages; and >>3. the syntax of the markup languages which he or she intends to use; >> >>to create accessible content by hand, and >> >>b) that there are tools whose interface is accessible to authors with certain >>disabilities, but which output invalid and/or inaccessible markup >> >>and that the guidelines and checkpoints which follow are designed to bridge >>this gap, in order to facilitate the creation of accessible content by the >>widest possible pool of users -- especially those without such fore-knowledge >>and/or those who themselves have a disability... >> >>gregory >> >>References >>1. http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/PR-WAI-AUTOOLS-19991210 >>2. >>-------------------------------------------------------- >>He that lives on Hope, dies farting >> -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1763 >>-------------------------------------------------------- >>Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net> >> WebMaster and Minister of Propaganda, VICUG NYC >> <http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/vicug/index.html> >>-------------------------------------------------------- >> > >-------------------------------------------------------- >He that lives on Hope, dies farting > -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1763 >-------------------------------------------------------- >Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net> > WebMaster and Minister of Propaganda, VICUG NYC > <http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/vicug/index.html> >--------------------------------------------------------
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