- From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 08:39:36 -0800
- To: w3c-wai-au@w3.org
- CC: w3c-wai-eo@w3.org
I realize I'm a bit late to the party with this, but I've been mulling it over for several years and find it almost as hard to comment on as it was to write this part of ATAG in the first place.. Specifically, the whole business of relative priorities is dense/opaque/impenetrable and although I have no specific language that will change that, it is important that further effort be expended trying to make this dark thing clear. Perhaps if you try to think of it as an English-to-English translation it might help. The basic idea that the priority of something depends on "external" factors should be amenable to some simplified text. As it stands, I have always felt that it's a poster child for obscurantism (or is that "obfuscation"?). I urge you to look in isolation at the text starting at ["Relative Priority" Checkpoints] and in particular the part labeled [Relative Priority Checkpoints in Practice] and imagine yourself as someone trying to develop an ATAG-compliant authoring tool. Perhaps it's my creeping senility, but it just puts cognition barriers in my path to understanding what in the world we are talking about here. Love.
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