Re: Attempt to simplify and harmonize "content display" vs. "chrome" distinction in ATAG2 and UAAG2

+1 from me also

Best Tim Boland NIST

Quoting Michael A Squillace <masquill@us.ibm.com>:

> +1 - much clearer, Jan.
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> Jan Richards <jan.richards@utoronto.ca> 
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> 07/07/2008 04:04 PM
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> Attempt to simplify and harmonize "content display" vs. "chrome" 
> distinction in ATAG2 and UAAG2
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> Hi all,
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> Both ATAG2 and UAAG2 often require specific terms to distinguish the 
> part of the user interface that reflects the content being 
> editing/viewed and the part that is the software's own. For some time 
> we've tried using the terms "content display" and "chrome", but "chrome" 
> is especially off-putting for people. Also the fact the "chrome" covers 
> help documentation, which might be HTML pages is also confusing.
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> So here's another terminological try (note: [/] denotes AU/UA versions)...
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> [AUTHORING TOOL/USER AGENT] USER INTERFACE
> The display and control mechanism that [authors/people] use to 
> communicate with and operate the [authoring tool/user agent] software. A 
> user interface may be non-Web-based or Web-based or a combination (e.g., 
> a non-Web-based [authoring tool/browser] might have on-line help pages). 
> For the purposes of these guidelines, there is an important distinction 
> between (1) *CONTENT VIEW(S)* the accessibility of which often depends 
> to some extent on the content being [edited/rendered, played or 
> executed] and (2) the rest of the [authoring tool/user agent] user 
> interface (referred to as the *USER INTERFACE EXCLUDING CONTENT VIEWS*) 
> the accessibility of which does not depend on the content being 
> [edited/rendered].
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> CONTENT VIEW
> The [authoring tool/user agent] user interface functionality that 
> presents content for user interaction. Content views may be 
> distinguished by:
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> (1) *Editability*: some content views allow authors to modify the 
> content as displayed (e.g., [an "editing view"/an editable "source 
> view"]), while others do not (e.g., [a "preview" feature/the rendered 
> view typical of browsers, a read-only "source view"]).
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> (2) *Nature of rendering*:
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> (a) *instruction level content views* present the content
> encoding instructions in non-rendered form (e.g., [plain text editing 
> views, form-based editing views that provide direct access to the 
> instructions such as selecting attribute values/"source view"]).
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> (b) *rendered content views* result from fully or partially rendering, 
> playing, or executing the content. The broad range of potential 
> renderings covers conventional (often called "WYSIWYG") renderings to 
> less conventional renderings such as a graphical wavefront of an audio 
> file or the displays of text-only browsers. *Partial renderings* are 
> those in which some aspects of the content are rendered, played, or 
> executed, but not others (e.g., a frame-by-frame video [editor/player] 
> rendering the graphical aspect, but not the temporal aspect, of a video.
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> (c) *meta content views* present properties, metadata or other more
> abstract information about the content (e.g., [a content management 
> system that creates a Web-based calendar based on the author selecting 
> only the month and year/a "page properties" feature]).
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> USER INTERFACE EXCLUDING CONTENT VIEWS
> All parts of the user interface other than the content view(s). Includes 
> all user interface components that surround, underlie, or superimpose 
> upon content views (e.g., text areas, menus bars, rulers, pop-up context 
> menus) and also other Web content made available to the author/user by 
> the developer of the [authoring tool/user agent] (e.g. help files).
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> Any thoughts on "CONTENT VIEW" and "USER INTERFACE EXCLUDING CONTENT 
> VIEWS" as a way forward?
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> Cheers,
> Jan
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