Re: AUWG Teleconference on Monday, 21 June 2004 - Minutes

Gregg,

I'm concerned that outsiders will hold WAI documents to a higher 
accessibility standard (e.g. use our work as exemplars). Even if we 
decide that a more official solution (such as a common WAI strategy for 
creating non-text alternatives in our documents) is not necessary, I 
would still like to run our descriptions, etc. past members of your 
group as part of the review process.

Cheers,
Jan


Gregg Vanderheiden wrote:

> The rule I always use is... if I were on a phone call -- or existed in an
> audio world - how would I present the information.  
> 
> I just describe as much as is necessary to make the point. 
>  
> Gregg
> 
>  -- ------------------------------ 
> Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. 
> Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr.
> Director - Trace R & D Center 
> University of Wisconsin-Madison 
> 
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Karen Mardahl" <karen@mardahl.dk>
> To: "Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG" <rscano@iwa-italy.org>;
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> 
> 
> Hi Roberto
> 
> It's my understanding that what Jan specifically wanted to ask WCAG
> about
> was - how to describe the red circles. E.g. sighted and non-sighted
> people
> could be discussing an illustration and a sighted person says something
> like
> "the red highlighted part is good", making a visual comment that the
> non-sighted person is not aware of. So I think we are looking for advice
> on
> how best to write these longdescs. Where is the fine balance between not
> too
> little and not too much? And how can we encourage good authoring of a
> longdesc?!
> 
> Roberto Scano:
> All depends if blind people are blind since they was born or if they
> become blind. Btw, every blind knows what means "circle".
> I wanna suggest to leave only longdesc and remove [d] link that create a
> ripetition of links with the same link title and these are no good for
> accessibility throught screen readers (and, btw, we have "deprecated"
> them in WCAG 2.0 HTML Techniques).
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Jan Richards, M.Sc.
User Interface Design Specialist
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC), University of Toronto

   Email: jan.richards@utoronto.ca
   Web:   http://jan.atrc.utoronto.ca
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